Muzeum Gorzelnictwa w Łańcucie
Museum in a classicist manor house from 1833, showing the history of distilling in Łańcut: historic equipment, bottles, labels and models.
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About the museum
The Muzeum Gorzelnictwa in Łańcut is housed in a classicist manor house from 1833. The building was originally the administrative office of the Łańcut estates of the Potocki family, who ran a distillery as well as a brewery and a sugar factory. After the Second World War it housed a technical school, and from 1970 the building was taken over by the distillery. In 1993–1994, in cooperation with the Muzeum-Zamek w Łańcucie (Łańcut Castle Museum) and the Muzeum Fabryk Wnętrz w Łodzi (Museum of Factory Interiors in Łódź), the former interiors were recreated and the museum was set up here.
The Potocki counts' distillery was one of the first in the Polish lands; a copy of a document from the Kraków archive confirms its activity as early as 1764. Over time, alongside okowita (raw spirit) and single and double distilled vodkas, it began to produce liqueurs, creams, ratafia and rosolis.
The collection includes historic equipment, among others an alembic and a Schwartz apparatus, old bottles, archival labels and documents from the 19th century to the present day. A vertical steam engine that once drove the distillery's machinery stands in the hall, and models illustrate the production processes. A particular attraction is a model of the old bottling line with original parts, where mainly women once worked.
Highlights
- classicist manor house from 1833
- alembic and Schwartz apparatus
- model of the old bottling line with original parts
- vertical steam engine in the hall
- old bottles, labels and documents of the distillery
Permanent exhibition
- Historia gorzelnictwa łańcuckiego – Historic distilling equipment, old bottles and labels, documents, and models of the production processes and the bottling line.
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| Good to know | Visits are for organised groups only, after a prior arrangement by telephone or e-mail. |
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