Willa Caro, the historic residence belonging to Oscar Caro, Gliwice industrialist, is the main seat of the Museum in Gliwice. The building itself, as a perfect example of 19th-century Neo-Renaissance architecture, is a very valuable landmark in the Gliwice landscape, which also serves as the city's most important museum.
Villa Caro was erected in 1885 as a luxurious bourgeois residence. Despite years of overhaul and remodeling, it retained its original character not only from the outside but inside. For this reason, it became a museum, a place serving as a model of a nineteenth-century apartment, furnished with original furniture, finished with typical period decorations, richly decorated ceilings, patterned paneling and shiny parquet.
In addition to the 19th century equipment of the residence of the villa there are also exhibitions, exhibits in the field of arts and crafts and ethnography. The first exhibition includes jewelry, porcelain and faience products and old photographs. The second one presents Silesian folk culture monuments: wooden sculptures, paintings on glass and canvas, as well as folk costumes, ceramics, agricultural tools and others.
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