On the National Independence Day and the American Veterans Day, the New England Air Museum in Windsor Locks opened a permanent exhibition that commemorates the Kościuszko Squadron 303. The new exhibit features an interactive kiosk detailing the Squadron’s extraordinary bravery and flying skills, highlights of their sorties, the aircraft they flew, and personal histories. The…
Prepared by the Polish History Museum in cooperation with the National Centre for Culture, the exhibition Enigma: A Riddle Solved will be on display at the NCC’s Kordegarda gallery at Krakowskie Przedmieście St in Warsaw on 9-28 November 2021. It will involve Poland’s first-ever presentation to a wide audience of an exhibit that documents a…
Headed by Ignacy Daszyński as Premier, the Provisional People’s Government of the Polish Republic was established on November 7, 1918 in Lublin by a group of independence-oriented Leftist activists (PPS, PSL Wyzwolenie). This Government did not however attain a nation-wide reach, and functioned alongside other power centres, among them the Polish Liquidation Commission in Galicia….
‘Gardens of Health – the First Polish Printed Herbaria’, ‘On the Practical Use of Herbaria’ and ‘Towards Scientific Illustration’ are the titles of the modules that make up an online exhibition devoted to the earliest Polish printed herbaria. Prepared by the Artes Liberales Faculty of the University of Warsaw and the Polish History Museum with…
On 28 October, the collection of the last Ambassador of the Polish Second Republic to Turkey Michał Sokolnicki, which became part of the Polish History Museum’s collection in May 2021, was presented at Belweder, the Polish President’s residence. The event’s attendees included Secretary of State at the Chancellery of the President of the Republic of…
On Sunday 24 October, the official inauguration of the Maczek Memorial Breda presenting the fate of the soldiers of the 1st Armoured Division and co-created by the Polish History Museum took place in the Dutch city. The opening of the Maczek Memorial Breda, the centrepiece of which was the unveiling of a multimedia wall, took…
