Museum of Oil and Gas Industry in Bóbrka Ignacy Łukasiewicz

The world's first oil mine is located not in Texas or Saudi Arabia, but in a quiet corner of the Podkarpackie region, in Bóbrka... In 1854, three Polish inventors and industrialists - Ignacy Łukasiewicz, Tytus Trzecieski and Karol Klobassa-Zrencki - founded a company and opened a mine which extracted the raw material from a depth of about 150 m, which is still in operation today. The open-air museum was established in 1961 and includes the museum building, the 19th-century oil wells, the mechanical workshop, the administration building and the mine forge, where you can see oil extraction equipment and laboratory accessories. It is a multimedia facility with a modern approach to presenting history.