The museum in łambinowice is located in the place of former Lamsdorf firing ground in which Prussian, and later German, soldiers were trained.
During the Prussian-French war, 4 thousand Frenchmen were imprisoned in the camp. During World War I, 90 thousand Romanian, Serbian, Russian, English, Italian and French soldiers were kept there. Fragments of stalags (German POW camps), guardoom, officers' mess, residential houses and three cemeteries were preserved. In the building of German command of the firing ground there is a museum today, established in 1964. During excavation works in 1999, graves of about 1500 German civilians were discovered who lived in the towns in Silesia before the outbreak of World War II. After the war they were put in Łambinowice forced labour camp where they died as a result of enfeeblement and catastrophic living conditions. The museum's collection contains over 10 thousand exhibits belonging to internees or guards. Many of them come from camps for internee Polish soldiers in Romania, Switzerland and the USSR.
