On 17-18 December, the National Museum of Technology in Warsaw resumed its activities after a break due to renovation work. On this occasion, new exhibitions were opened: the main exhibition “Poles’ contribution to the world’s technical and scientific heritage” and a two-part permanent exhibition “Sources of civilisation’s energy – the history of fossil fuels and Ignacy Łukasiewicz – the pioneer of the oil industry”.

A new exhibition “Poles’ contribution to the world’s technical and scientific heritage” tells the long story of the development of Polish technical thought, focusing in particular on the most significant engineering and scientific achievements of the period between the 17th and 20th centuries.

“Visitors will also be able to learn about mathematics, see the development of tools and technical drawing – everything, in short, that forms the language of technology, without which the ongoing technological leap forward would not have been possible.

We would like young people to leave the Museum full of pride in the achievements of their ancestors and with the knowledge that many Polish inventions and scientific achievements were global”, says Mirosław Zientarzewski, director of the National Museum of Technology in Warsaw, about the exhibition.

The two-part permanent exhibition “Sources of Civilisation’s Energy – the History of Fossil Fuels and Ignacy Łukasiewicz – the Pioneer of the Oil Industry” is an exhibition presenting the extraction and processing of resources such as crude oil, coal and natural gas.

The first part of the exhibition focuses on the history of energy sources and the presentation of techniques for their extraction, and also addresses the subject of the most recent and at the same time most efficient of them – fissile materials, which are the basis of nuclear energy.

The second part of the exhibition is a tribute to the great inventor Ignacy Łukasiewicz, in reference to the bicentenary of his birth.

Adrian Andrzejewski