The sugar industry collections are the oldest collections in the Museum. The collection was based on the exhibits from the exhibition of the Trade-Commercial Chamber held in Prague in 1908 and it was gradually enlarged. The most important exhibit is a model of sugar factory from 1908 in the scale 1:10 with the inventory number 1 representing a typical Czech sugar factory of the daily capacity 500 tons of sugar beet. The model is realized with the finest details and its dimensions are 8.7 m (width), 4.7 m (depth) and 3.5 m (height).
The samples of raw materials, intermediate products and products come from the period between 1870 and 1890.
The group of laboratory instruments and equipment includes a unique collection of sugar-making polarimeters (about 20 pieces) the oldest of which dates back to the period around 1860, the collection of laboratory glass, various densimeters, balances, pycnometers and flow-through meters.