REGIONAL CHAMBER OF LOCAL HISTORY IN KOLONOWSKIE

The institution is located in a wooden cottage dating back to 1780, which was originally built next to a now defunct ironworks. It is the oldest building in the city, from the time of its founding. The building contained the flat of the manager ironworks, as well as office spaces. The ironworks was closed after 1945, and the house became the property of the Andrzej Ironworks in Zawadzkie. It housed an evangelical school and then rental flats. In 1998, the building became the property of the Kolonowskie municipality. Starting from 1996, the house was looked after by local community activists who saved it from destruction. This work was initiated by Wolfgang Globisch, the parish priest of Zawadzkie. Members of the Kolping Family Association took part in the work.

The cottage was then adapted for exhibition purposes and turned into a museum room. In 2009, the roof of the facility was renovated.

The room houses exhibits from Kolonowski's past, including tools, products from the former ironworks, documents, beautiful Silesian costumes, household appliances, furniture, and even the so-called "wieloch", i.e. a bread oven, and a historic dugout canoe – a 17th-century wooden boat found at the bottom of the Mała Panew River, as well as school textbooks. Agricultural machinery is displayed in a separate pavilion. In front of the cottage there is a monument to the founder of the town, Filip Colonna.

The facility is located on the "Morawsko-polskie ścieżki tradycji i poznania" (Moravian-Polish Paths of Tradition and Discovery) trail created by the Local Action Group "Kraina Dinozaurów" (Land of Dinosaurs).