Exhibit of the Month – May 2026. A gas company that heated its employees' homes with coal?

The exhibit on display at the Warsaw Gasworks Museum in May reveals an interesting technological gap from that era. The Warsaw Gasworks revolutionized the city—gas powered streetlights, stoves, irons, and even curling irons. But coal was still used to heat rooms. So the workers’ apartments on the plant grounds had coal stoves—albeit specially designed ones.

Our exhibit is a decorative cast-iron “goat-style” stove from the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries—enameled, with relief ornaments on the front panel and stylized operational inscriptions. It is a fine example of early industrial design, where functionality meets the aesthetics of the era.

We invite you to visit the Warsaw Gasworks Museum to see this and other exhibits with your own eyes.