The Silesia Collection is a collection of Silesian souvenirs available for purchase at the Silesia City Center information desk (Silesian Square). Top quality, original design and references to the Silesia City Center’s mining past make these gadgets a favorite for tourists and others.
This incredible collection of items with Silesian roots includes amazing miniature mining wagons, mining lamps and shakos, popular carbide lamp, glass/tin beer mugs, skat cards and postcards.Books of Marek Szoltysek (expert on Silesian culture) as well as signed books and movies of Kazimierz Kutz, Silesian director, are also available.
The Silesia Collection souvenirs are a great gift idea. Packed in wooden boxes and elegant brand-name bags, these items will make everyone happy.
List of souvenirs in the Silesia Collection:
Brass souvenirs:
- Brass mining train with rail tracks
- Miniature brass mining train in a case
- Bottle opener shaped like a miner’s helmet
- Bottle opener shaped like a mining lamp
- Brass-cast hand-polished paper knife
Coal souvenirs:
- Coal sculptures with mining motifs
For men:
- Glass/tin beer mug
- Siegerland pickaxe with a surprise
- Carafe shaped like a mining lamp with light
- Desk toolkit with illuminated brass lamp
- Tiepin with a head frame
For children:
- Miner’s shako with white, black, green and red plume
- Coloring book for children with Upper Silesian motifs
Mining lamps:
- Miniature brass-cast oil lamp (“little frog”)
- Miniature safety lamp
- Miniature mining lamp - Miniature carbide lamps
- Original mining carbide lamp
- Original gasoline lamp
Silesia City Center gadgets:
- Skat cards
- Silesia City Center postcards
Movies and books:
- Signed CD set with 5 Kazimierz Kutz’s movies: “Krzyz walecznych”
[Cross of Valor], “Nikt nie wola” [Nobody’s Calling], “Smierc jak kromka chleba”
[Death as a Slice of Bread], “Perla w koronie” [Pearl in the Crown],
and “Sol ziemi czarnej” [Salt of the Black Earth]
- CD with Lech Majewski’s “Angelus” movie
- Signed Kazimierz Kutz’s “Portrety Godziwe” [Decent Portraits] book
- Marek Szoltysek’s “Elementarz Slaski” [Silesian Primer] book
- Marek Szoltysek’s “Biblia Slazoka” [Silesian’s Bible] book
- Marek Szoltysek’s “Slazoki nie Gesi” [Silesians Have Their Own Language]
book
- Marek Szoltysek’s “Ilustrowany Slownik Gwary Slaskiej”
[Illustrated Dictionary of Silesian Dialect] book
- Marek Szoltysek’s “Slonsk Je Pikny” [Silesia is Beautiful] book
- Marek Szoltysek’s “Przewodnik po Gornym Slasku” [Guide to Upper Silesia]
book
- “Patronki Polskiego Gornictwa” [Female Patron Saints of Polish Mining] book
- Signed Aleksandra Klich’s “Bez Mitow, Portrety ze Slaska”
[No Myths, Portraits from Silesia] book
- “Lampy gornicze” [Mining Lamps] book
- “Muzyka na Czornych Diamentach zrodzona”
[Music Born from Black Diamonds] book
Small gifts:
- Postcards with pictures of old Katowice
- Postcards with Silesian recipes
- Postcards with St. Barbara
- Key ring – safety lamp
- Key ring – mining lamp
- Key ring – mining wagon
- Key ring – carbide lamp
- Key ring – miner’s helmet
