Museum of the Land of Juna

The Museum of the Earth is the building of the former Hunger Inn, which has stood here for over three hundred years. A path once ran through here, trampled by pilgrims traveling to the source of the Elbe.
The name "Hunger Inn" became established in the mid-19th century, when a great famine caused by crop failures led to the revolts of Silesian weavers, which were brutally suppressed by the Prussian authorities. To alleviate the suffering of the mountain people, public works were organized for them, including the construction of mountain roads known as "hunger roads."
One such road runs along the Kamienna River. It was built by local residents, who received a loaf of bread and a bucket of milk daily for ten hours of hard work. Modest meals for the builders were prepared in the Hunger Inn, where two-pound loaves of bread were baked.
In the basement of today's Museum of the Earth, an old bread oven, fired with rye and oat straw, still survives. It could hold as many as two hundred loaves of bread.

In the early 1990s, the former inn was purchased by Juliusz Naumowicz, the founder of the Sudeten Walloon Brotherhood. Museum rooms were opened in the building, displaying minerals and numerous memorabilia from Sudeten Mountain Guides and Mountain Rescue Service members.

On March 18, 2015, in the middle of the night, a fire broke out in the building. Renovation work began almost immediately, and the grand opening of the Museum of the Land of JUNA – Walloon Watchtower took place on September 19, 2019, on the 19th anniversary of the founding of the Sudeten Walloon Brotherhood.