The coat of arms was borrowed from that of the Sforza family of Milan. Pruzhany was a center of pottery trade at those times. In the mid-19th century, a wealthy Polish landlord, Walenty Szwykowski, laid out a park and built a pretentious palace that houses a museum today, after a restoration.
The coat of arms of the Sforza family from Milan was adopted by Pruzhany, which was known for its pottery trade in the 19th century. A wealthy Polish landowner named Walenty Szwykowski developed a park and built a palace that now houses a museum after restoration.