The Museum occupies some of the buildings of the old cloth factory which used to belong to the Büttners family.
In the 1930s the company was taken over K.T. Büttner's sons: Karol August, Paweł Maurycy and Herbert Oskar, and G. A. Büttner's sons: Jan Karol and Kurt Ernest, and their brother-in-law, Erwin Kerger.