Kołobrzeg Museum “Patria Colbergiensis”

The Kołobrzeg Museum “Patria Colbergiensis” is housed in the western part of the cellars of the Kołobrzeg town hall and shows the thousand-year history of the town and the region. It opened on 27 September 2014 during the European Heritage Days.

A museum of private initiative

The institution belongs neither to the town nor to the state. It is a non-governmental organisation, operating on the basis of regulations agreed with the minister of culture and entered in the register of museums established by private individuals. The collections are dominated by items from the time of the Thirty Years' War, the Seven Years' War and the Napoleonic campaign.

Rooms and collections

The museum's website lists the rooms: “Under the Clock”, “Kołobrzeg, a Spa Resort of the 1st Category”, “Kołobrzeg Pioneers”, “Kołobrzeg Fortress” and “The Siege of Kołobrzeg in 1806/07”. According to the Wikipedia entry, the collections include medal art and phaleristics, militaria, including edged weapons and black-powder firearms, municipal numismatics, cartography, engravings, painting, glass, porcelain, ceramics, sculpture and sigillography. A collection of its own concerns the old guilds: coppersmiths, shoemakers, masons, bakers, weavers and saddlers. The whole exhibition concerns the Kołobrzeg area.

Next to the town hall

The museum lies on Town Hall Square, a few steps from the Co-Cathedral Basilica. Half a kilometre further on is the Kołobrzeg Fortress, which complements the exhibitions on the sieges of the town well.

Practical information

• Address according to the museum's website: ul. Armii Krajowej 12, Kołobrzeg, in the town hall.
• The museum's website gives hours of 10:00-17:00 daily; on other dates a visit is arranged with the management.
• Check the details and any changes of hours before your visit on the museum's website or its social media profile.