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Over the last year, the Museum continued conservation works on its sets of museum objects. Besides the described one week ago activities related to improvement of the technical state and securing from further deterioration our archives, we have also carried out conservatory works on different kind museum objects.

Thus, this year, to the hands of conservators from the Poviat Museum in Nysa, we have handed over101 metal artefacts from the archaeological work conducted within the framework of the interdisciplinary project 'Science for society, society for science at the Site of National Remembrance in Łambinowice'. These included small elements of soldiers' uniforms: military buttons, prisoner-of-war identity tags, but also personal items of the prisoners, such as a handmade penknife, a fragment of a razor, a handmade ornament, and a hypodermic needle from the camp lazarette.

The other set of artefacts consists of eight textiles donated to the Museum from the families of prisoners-of-war. Alongside military hats, a soldier's rucksack, or a leather wallet, there are also three small toys which stand out: a stuffed teddy bear given to Tadeusz Rożański by his fiancée, when he was leaving for the front (in September 1939), and a rag doll and a teddy bear-nurse, once owned by officer cadet Karol Toczek and made by female soldiers in Stalag IV B Mühlberg. The treatment of these objects was carried out at the ARTE Anna Drążkowska Conservation Studio in Toruń.