Muzeum Cukrownictwa w Pszennie
Museum on the grounds of the Pszenno sugar factory, with more than 1,000 exhibits on sugar beet cultivation and sugar production.
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About the museum
The Muzeum Cukrownictwa w Pszennie (Pszenno Sugar Museum) has operated since 2008 on the premises of the production plant “Cukrownia Świdnica”. It was set up on the initiative of, and with funding from, the sugar producer Südzucker Polska. The location was chosen for good reason: the first beet campaign in Pszenno took place in 1842, and the sugar factory is one of the oldest still operating in the European Union.
The main part of the museum is an exhibition hall in a building from 1940, which houses more than 1,000 exhibits relating to beet cultivation, sugar production, laboratory work and storage, as well as everyday objects such as sugar bowls. The exhibition is divided into thematic zones, including cultivation, history, production, the laboratory and the warehouse, with a symbolic wall of sugar sacks in the storage section.
Complementing it are an open-air exhibition of old agricultural machines and tools, a hall with a collection of heavy equipment from former sugar factories, and a small exhibition in former garages with forge tools and memorabilia of former factories.
Highlights
- More than 1,000 exhibits related to sugar
- Zones: cultivation, production, laboratory and warehouse
- 19th-century wooden chest with a guillotine for breaking sugar loaves
- Wall of sugar sacks in the warehouse section
- Open-air exhibition with beet-growing machines
Permanent exhibition
- Wystawa stała Muzeum Cukrownictwa – More than 1,000 exhibits on sugar beet cultivation, sugar production and storage, and on the work of the sugar factory's laboratory, plus an open-air exhibition of machines.
- Founded
- 2008
- Operated by
- Südzucker Polska S.A.
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Plan your visit
| School programs | yes |
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| Good to know | The museum operates on the grounds of the production plant; visits should be arranged by telephone or e-mail. Primary schools are especially welcome. |
