Exhibitions

The Alba, our oldest motorcycle, dates from 1919 and was manufactured in Mierzyn near Szczecin. It had no gearbox, and no clutch, either. The stoewer car, junak and iskra motorcycles as well as smyk microcar were also built in Szczecin. Our Stoewer V5 was manufactured at the Auto-Stoewer-Werke-AG factory located at Falkenwalder Strasse (today known as Wojska Polskiego Alley) in Szczecin in 1932. Cars built in Szczecin were some of the best in Europe. The Stoewer V5 was the first car in Germany, and one of the first cars in the world, to be equipped with front-wheel drive. Besides the V5, there are two more stoewer cars in our museum - a sedina and a greif junior. After WWII, Szczecin still played its part in the European automotive industry. Junak heavy motorcycles were manufactured at the former Stoewer factory. They were expensive, so the number of buyers dropped quickly. The factory struggled to save its skin; prototypes for a new motorcycle, the Iskra, and a microcar, the Smyk, were designed. Neither the Smyk nor the Iskra entered mass production - and so those two models occupy a place of honour in our museum.

In 1978, a six-wheel four-wheel drive amphibian was built at Wojskowy Instytut Techniki Pancernej i Samochodowej (Military Institute of Armour and Car Technology) in Sulejowek. This light off-road vehicle was designed to collect wounded soldiers from the battlefield. The LPT (the Polish acronym for "light off-road vehicle") was built from Fiat 126p subassemblies. Instead of serving military purposes, our car played a major role in two movies about "Pan Samochodzik" ("Mister Automobile", a literary character). The Wszedolaz, a Fiat 126p on caterpillar tracks, was designed at Zaklad Transportu Energetyki (Power Engineering and Transport Institute) in Radom, in 1979-1980 to monitor power lines in harsh winter conditions. Unfortunately the caterpillar track was messed-up, but at least it was able to swim. In mid-1983, work on the successor of the Fiat 126p was finally completed at Fabryka Samochodow Osobowych (Passenger Car Factory in Bielsko-Biala, Poland). By 1987, there had been seven beskid cars built at the factory. It was much more comfortable than "the maluch". Credit for its silhouette must go to a group of designers from the Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow. With a glider's wing as an obvious inspiration, the Beskid's silhouette was reincarnated many years later in the renault twingo.

It was been until July 4, 1897 that an electric tram first carried the citizens of Szczecin. Thirty years later, a shipment of 40 tram-cars was delivered to the city from factories in Bremen and Dessau. One of those cars was No. 144 - the oldest tram in our collection. Besides the bremen passenger tram-car, there are three buses and seven trams in our museum. Almost all of them used to carry passengers from Szczecin and its surrounding area.

- People's Republic of Poland's cars: syrena, fiat, mikrus, nysa, polonez, formula Ester racer.
- Motorcycles of the Second Polish Republic: sokol, moj, tornedo, podkowa.
- One-track vehicles of the People's Republic of Poland: SHL, WFM, WSK, osa, komar, romet, zak, rys, ogar, kadet.
- Vehicles used by uniformed services: fire service (star 25 and zuk A15M) and Citizen's Militia (Warszawa 201) cars.