The museum opened in 1968 in a small paper mill dating back to 1605, the only such historic mill left in the world.In the early eighteenth century, it was built next to the "Low Mill", and both produced wove paper (known in Europe as "VŽlin") that became well known all across Europe the Duszniki mill even supplied paper to royal and imperial courts. The mills were in operation for three hundred years without interruption; even when they were already turned into a museum, small amounts of paper began to made in them again for special occasions. Today visitors can still observe how paper used to be made in the olden days. The Duszniki museum is the only one in Poland that collects everything related to paper manufacturing of the past and present, and to paper's uses, including raw materials, machines, equipment and writing materials. In its collection, which numbers several thousand exhibits, there are unusually valuable objects, such as eighteenth - and nineteenth-century moulds for making "wove paper", a metrological apparatus for testing the paper, paper making scales and measuring devices, collections of Polish and foreign wove paper and watermarks, documents from the sixteenth to the nineteenth centuries printed or written on wove paper, writing materials made of plant fibre (tapa cloth, made from the bark of a paper-mulberry tree; papyrus, bai-lain and bamboo leaves) and animal skin (parchment, also called vellum, both printed and handwritten texts). Visitors to the museum can thus trace the history of paper making in Poland and worldwide.
Muzeum Papiernictwa
ul. Kłodzka 42
57-340 Duszniki Zdrój
Region: dolnośląskie
Phone: (+48 74) 866 92 48
Phone/Fax: (+48 74) 866 90 20
WWW: www.muzpap.pl
Email: biuro@muzpap.pl