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Problems of technical monuments in the Lower Silesia were the subject matter for a working symposium organised by the Institute of the History of Architecture, Science and Technology at the Higher School of Engineering in Wroclaw upon the request of the Main Board for Museums and Monuments Protection attached to the Ministry of Culture and Science. The programme of the symposium envisaged also a discussion of organisational and training problems associated with the preservation of monuments of engineering in the whole country. The meeting was attended by representatives of the Institute of the History of Material Culture of the Polish Academy of Sciences, the Institute of the History of Architecture, Arts and Technology of the Wroclaw Higher School of Engineering, the Supreme Technical Organisation (NOT), the Technical Museum and also by district monuments conservators from the Lower Silesia. An important place in the discussions was occupied by organisational problems including the question of training the specialists who would deal with the protection of technological monuments in Poland. A number of important problems were raised, to mention only the need for the preparation of personnel qualified to carry out studies, to draw the necessary documentation for this group of monuments and to fully recognize the resources. It was agreed that the Institute of the History of Material Culture attached to the Polish Academy of Sciences should be a leading organisation in solving the problems of monuments of engineering and coordinating works in this field. There exists also a need to record monuments of technology by specialized teams. Of utmost importance is also the task to popularize technical culture and technological monuments in the society.