Muzeum Kolejnictwa na Śląsku w Jaworzynie Śląskiej

This large-scale - by European standards - railroad museum was established in 2005 on the grounds of a historic locomotive depot from 1908 in Jaworzyna Slaska, Lower Silesia. The museum is located on railroad land of over 2 hectares with preserved railroad infrastructure, locomotive depot buildings and technical facilities.

The collection of the Railway Museum in Silesia consists of more than 150 railroad vehicles dating from 1880 to the 1970s. The collection includes, among others, more than 40 steam locomotives of German, Polish, American and English production, diesel and electric locomotives and a collection of wagons, as well as railroad specialized vehicles.

In the former building of the steam locomotive depot workshop, year-round exhibitions are organized on the history of railroads and railroads not only in Jaworzyna Slaska, but also in Europe and the world. Visitors to the museum can see, among other things, reconstructed chiefs' offices from 1930 and 1970, the office of Railway Labor Medicine, the PKP Printing House or a unique railroad mock-up in H0 scale made in the late 1970s and early 1980s used as a teaching aid in railroad school.

On weekends and selected holidays, the Silesian Railway Museum organizes rides on historic rolling stock along the so-called "Steam Locomotive Route", a unique educational path, the sightseeing of which takes place during a wagon ride led by a historic diesel locomotive (e.g. Deutz OMZ117R locomotive from 1940, 410D-51 from 1975 or 409Da-1 from 1965) or a steam locomotive - a Polish TKt48-18 steam locomotive from 1951 (the only working normal-gauge steam locomotive in Lower Silesia).

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