Suburban Warsaw railway stations in the manor house style came into being in the 1920s as part of the reconstruction of the railway infrastructure after devastation caused by World War I. Their native form expresses the quest for identity of the recovering state and the shaping of its national style.

Collection introduces the region of centuries-long cultural and technological activity of man, which groups the remnants of the 19th-century industrial complexes and facilities — created in the era of early modern industry being born in the Polish lands.