Museum of Confiscated Art


This museum has an extraordinary display of mostly 17th- to 18th-century icons, jewellery, antique furniture and Chinese porcelain seized from smugglers trying to get them across the border to Poland during the 1990s.

Items on display are of unknown origin, hence their display in a museum rather than a return to their rightful owners.


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