This is a unique museum on a worldwide scale. It is material evidence that during the second half of the 19th Century a branch of industry was born in Poland which initiated remarkable progress in civilisation and development of the world for many decades.

Ignacy Lukasiewicz was the first in the world to find a new use for crude oil found in the Podkarpackie district, known as seep oil. He developed methods of distillation by which he obtained kerosene. The 31st July in 1853 is a memorable date as this was the day the first kerosene lamp was used, constructed by Ignacy Lukasiewicz. The world first crude oil mine was set up in Bobrka near Gorlice.

The Museum of Oil Industry, in the so-called House of Lukasiewicz, has numerous photographs and documents relating to crude oil including ways of extraction, exploitation and refining. The archives have examples of mining codes of safety and oil mining magazines. The most significant monuments at the site of this museum include the original oil well shaft, still functional to this day, the original tools, a workshop from the period when the oil well in Bobrka was owned by Ignacy Lukasiewicz and the forge built at his request.

Museum of the Oil And Gas Industry – Bobrka (woj. Podkarpackie)

www.bobrka.pl