Archaeological Museum

Wrocław


Housed alongside the Military Museum in Wrocław's squat 15th-century Arsenal, the Archaeological Museum concentrates on human material culture in Silesia from the Stone Age to the 19th century. It has the distinction of being one of the oldest of its type surviving in Europe.


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