The metallurgy of non-ferrous metals is one of the oldest production skills and one that mankind adopted much earlier than iron production. The collection related to the metallurgy of non-ferrous metals is not overly extensive. Partially documented in it is the production and processing of lead, antimony, aluminium, zinc, tin, copper, nickel and some of their alloys. The collection’s base consists of raw materials, semi-finished products for profiling and products in the form of rods, strips and profiles. The model of a Pattinson furnace for separating lead from other metals is of special interest among the models of technological equipment. The man part of the collection consists of castings from aluminous alloys for the aviation and automobile industry. Of high historic value is the pharmaceutical bronze mortar from 1689. Also remarkable is the original of a pressure casting machine to cast objects from coloured metals based on the patent of a Mr. Polak, who, with his inventions and own production and export of casting machines in the 1920s and 20 was responsible for the spread of what is now common technology all over the world.

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