Archaeological exhibition

The archaeological exhibition traces the Jelenia Góra region from prehistory to the beginnings of the early modern town. Its opening section concerns the closing Ice Age: the earliest identified traces of people in the Western Sudetes date to the Upper Palaeolithic, around 40,000–16,000 years ago. The displayed Pleistocene animal remains are about 30,000 years old. Alongside them are copies of stone artefacts from that period, discovered between the wars in caves on Mount Połom, as well as a mammoth tooth and part of a tusk.

Further cases present stone and metal tools found in the region. Three stone tools from Dobków, the Kaczorów area and Wzgórze Krzywoustego represent the Neolithic. Isolated axes, a dagger fragment and a spearhead survive from the Bronze Age. A cremation cemetery on Wincentego Pola Street, with burial pits, urns and accompanying vessels, illustrates the Early Iron Age.

Fragments of wooden water pipes from the first half of the seventeenth century, joined with iron fittings, document town life. A model excavation on Jasna Street shows cultural layers and examples of finds. Its cross-section reveals the deposits from which archaeologists reconstruct successive uses of the site.