Porcelain Museum, Wałbrzych

Porcelain Museum in Waldenburg - a museum founded in 1908 on the initiative of the Altertumsverein für das Waldenburger Gebirgsland set up by Julius Joppich and given the name Altertumsmuseum für das Waldenburger Gebirgsland. In 1926 the care for the museum, which changed its name to Heimatmuseum in Waldenburg, was taken over by the then City Council in Waldenburg. The collections were moved to the representative Alberti Palace in Walbrzych at 1 Maja Street, then Gottesbergerstrasse 23. The first full-time manager of the museum became Friedrich Stelter, and since 1936 the position was held by Heinrich Bartsch.

After the Second World War the collections of Wałbrzych museum were secured by local authorities. The first post-war curator and manager of the museum was Marek Sagan. Under his direction the collections of the museum were cleaned up and prepared for the reexhibition. In 1947 there was a ceremonial opening of the museum to the public. In 1949, the museum was nationalized and renamed to the Walbrzych Museum, with Eufrozyn Sagan as its long-term manager. In 1975, the Wałbrzych Regional Museum was elevated to the rank of the District Museum, covering the whole area of the newly created Wałbrzych Province.

Based on the decision of the Minister of Culture of 2002, the Walbrzych museum was entered in the National Register of Museums.

In 2015, after the renovation of its headquarters and a new arrangement of exhibition halls, the museum, so far playing the role of a regional museum, was transformed into the Porcelain Museum, focusing on exhibiting a collection of over 10,000 objects of Silesian porcelain and historical porcelain from European manufactories and factories. Some of the rooms have been arranged in the style of an old bourgeois mansion with the use of own collections, mainly paintings, furniture and artistic crafts.

The museum also houses a collection of contemporary Polish paintings and a collection of Polish ceramics from the 1950s and 1960s.

The museum functions as: Ceramics Department, Art Department, City and Regional History Department, Library, Education and Promotion Department