Lower Silesia, lowlands

Copper Museum in Legnica

Copper Museum in Legnica – the most interesting museum in the city.

Price list

  • normal ticket
    20 4.8person
  • reduced ticket
    10 2.4person
  • the ticket entitles you to visit two buildings: the main building and the Knights’ Academy
  • every first Wednesday of the month – free admission

Opening hours / opening dates

  • October - May
  • Sunday - Monday
    Closed
  • Tuesday - Friday
  • Saturday
  • June - September
  • Monday - Tuesday
    Closed
  • Wednesday - Friday
  • Saturday - Sunday
  • the castle chapel in the courtyard of the Piast castle is open from April 23 to October 30 from Wednesday to Sunday at 10:00 – 17:00
  • visiting the observation towers and information about discounts here

Information

  • the main museum exhibition is “Copper in Many Forms” divided into thematic sections:
    – copper in the home
    – copper in the temple
    – copper in art
  • temporary exhibitions are prepared with great care
  • during the holidays there are workshops for groups and individuals
  • tourist games are available on site – a good way to visit Legnica for families with children
  • the museum also provides a castle chapel of St. John the Baptist. Benedict and St. Lawrence in the courtyard of the Piast Castle in Legnica and the Museum of the Battle of Legnica in Legnica Field
Visiting the Copper Museum in Legnica

Visiting the Copper Museum in Legnica.

Medieval mint

From the medieval mint.

Museum in Legnica

“The World of Toruń Gingerbread”.

Legnica Museum

Temporary exhibition from 2013 “The World of Toruń Gingerbread”.

Attractions of Legnica

Thanks to Via Regia, i.e. the Way of Jacob, Poland was a tycoon in the production of red dye used to dye the robes of the powerful. The dye came from the larva of Polish June (Dactylopius polonica). Currently, natural dyes are returning to favor. In the Kaczawskie Mountains, we invite you to a dyeing workshop with natural dyes.

Sightseeing in Legnica

Copper crocodile.

VIA REGIA - species hiking trail

Mouflons were brought to the Kaczawskie Foothills at the beginning of the twentieth century by Count von Magnis. Currently, quite often you can meet whole herds of these rare in Poland animals on the road between Dobkow and Myślibórz.

Species migration

The exhibition “Via Regia – the trail of species migration”. Exhibition prepared by the Senckenberg Museum für Naturkunde from Görlitz.

Jeremias Joseph Knechtel

Temporary exhibition “Jeremias Joseph Knechtel. Legnica painter of the Baroque era”.

Jeremias Josef Knechtel

An exhibition devoted to the work of Jeremias Josef Knechtel – Silesian Baroque painter.

Copper in art

Exhibition “Copper in Art”.

Sightseeing in Legnica

From the outside.

Copper Museum in Legnica

Copper Museum in Legnica.

Slow food restaurant
Guide

Villa Greta Restaurant

Legnica
Churches and monuments

Attractions of Legnica

Museum of the Battle of Legnica
Churches and monuments

Legnica Field

Former Gross-Rosen concentration camp
Museums and attractions

Gross-Rosen / Rogoźnica – German concentration camp

Museum of Natural History
Museums and attractions

Natural History Museum in Jelenia Góra

Guide, Museums and attractions

Mountain Hut Under Łabski Peak

Guide, Museums and attractions

Kolejkowo in Jelenia Góra

The Ruler of the Owl Mountain
Museums and attractions

Włodarz Complex – underground city, Owl Mountains