Museum of Warsaw University of Technology
Local name: Muzeum Politechniki Warszawskiej
The Museum of the Warsaw University of Technology is an academic museum and is housed in the Institute of Aerodynamics, one of the historic buildings belonging to the university. There are about three thousand exhibits in the collection, which deal with the history of the Warsaw Polytechnic from its inception in 1915. The museum itself was opened in the late 1970s.
Museum collections contain mainly archival materials and documents, of which the oldest and most precious are those signed personally by Stanisław Staszic and Julian Ursyn Niemcewicz. A separate department is a collection of scientific equipment, research instruments and technical equipment used at the university. In addition, among the collections are photographs, postcards, medals and measuring devices. The most interesting exhibits include: a model of locomobiles from around 1900 or a computer 'MERA' 9150 from the seventies of the 20th century.