The Regional Museum in Jawor is housed in a former Bernardine monastery complex. Permanent exhibitions at the museum are: the Jawor Land in prehistory, Old crafts, Jawor gingerbread, Crossing the impossible, Growling rifles and broadsword, Lower Silesian Chamber, Sudeten Treasury and Gallery of Silesian Sacred Art.
The museum was founded in 1929 as the Heimatmuseum Jauer in a villa, donated by prof. Carl Koschwitz. After World War II, the museum resumed its activity, and in 1964 it was moved to the monastery building. The buildings of the former Bernardine monastery complex date from the 15th century. The main part of the Regional Museum is located in the building of the former church.
The museum presents, among others archaeological finds, history of Jawor's craft, products of local goldsmiths, antique gingerbread forms, ceramics, artistic glass, military items, Silesian ethnography, geology of the region, religious paintings, history of peace churches in Świdnica and Jawor.
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