Traditionally, a Railway Night of Museums took place in Engine Shed on 14^th May. Like in the previous years, the event in the Shed was part of the city-wide event. The participants could travel between different facilities opened for visitors on that night with a special free-of-charge bus prepared by City Council. It is worth mentioning that when we started in 2010, we were the only cultural institution in Skierniewice open to the public during the Night of Museums.

This year’s edition was a logistic challenge mostly due to the very random weather. Most of the previous nights were usually organized outside, but this time we decided to prepare it indoors. We took care for interesting illumination which underlined the railway atmosphere of the shed. The major part of the main roundhouse was open to the public so even the large number of visitors did not prevented one from comfortable sightseeing. Despite the soggy weather, during the 4 evening hours we were visited by over 680 guests!

On Saturday, 11^th June the third Rally of Historical Utility Vehicles (also known as Żuk Rally) will take place near Skierniewice. PARE has become one of the partners of this event as the final of the event (open to the public) will take place in our Engine Shed. We would like to redirect all interested in participating in this event to the official participation form and rules prepared by the organizers.

The aims of the rally is to promote the automotive culture and tourism, improving the driving and navigation skills and competition in road navigation. The event is co-organized by

• PRL Skarb Narodu;
• Association of Old Transportation Fans „Nasz Tor”;
• Auto club Skierniewice;
• Bikiniarze CC;
• Motorization Museum in Opacz Kolonia;
• OldTimer Warsaw;
• City of Skierniewice.

For the seventh time in the Shed’s history we would like to invite you to participate in the Railway Night of Museums. This year the event will take place on second Saturday of May (14^th May), from 8PM till midnight. This is the only opportunity to see our rolling stock brought back to life with beautiful illumination or witness the atmosphere of railway night shift in signal box at our railway signaling exhibition. Hungry tourists will be awaited by the crew from Atmosfera pizza house at their own stand.

The Railway Night of Museums is one of the many events prepared by different entities from Skierniewice at this night. A detailed schedule of the events and the timetable of free buses traveling between them is enclosed below.

Free admission!

We inaugurated the 12^th touristic season in Engine Shed. This time, except the regular sightseeing, visitors could also attend to the presentation and discussion Modern or genuine? Dilemmas of contemporary railway museums which was the part of workshops supported by BZ WBK Foundation. We were visited by 312 guests. Tourists could also witness the advancing revitalization works as the Marbudex crew was continuing the roof repairs over the roundhouse.

Do not miss the next opportunity to visit us on 14^th May during the Night of Museums.

On last Friday of April, on the request of Skierniewice’s City Council we shared the interiors of the Shed for a special event awarding artists from our city. The choice of the Engine Shed was not accidental – after all this year’s award is entitled Steam Engine of Culture. And there is no better place for steam engine then the old depo. The awards were handed by the Vicepresident of the City, Mr. Jarosław Chęcielewski.

From 14^th to 16^th April 2016 we took part in 8^th International Fairs of Industrail and Underground Tourism on the invitation of City Council of Zabrze. The fairs took place in the exhibition hall at Matejki Street 6. We were among the representatives of organizations taking care of post-industrial objects open for public. With many of them we already cooperate, but the fairs were a good opportunity to make new acquaintances which may result in interesting, common projects.

Organizers of the fairs prepared many attractions for participants, ex. the conference New Opening for Touristics – Intangible Industrial Heritage or the evening banquet in original conference room placed in the old bathhouse of Queen Luiza mining gallery. The biggest attraction was undoubtedly the sightseeing of the new touristic route Level 355 in historical mine Guido.

Thank you very much for invitation and see you again next year!