On 24 June, on the eve of the Polish Community in Hungary Day, the permanent exhibition Poles and Hungarians: 1000 Years of Shared History was opened. The festive event was attended by Robert Kostro, Director of the Polish History Museum; Piotr Piętka, Director of the Polish Research Institute and Museum in Budapest; Katarzyna Ratajczak-Sowa, Chargé…
On June 1, a ceremonial transfer of General Stanisław Maczek’s uniform to the Polish History Museum’s collection took place at the PHM’s temporary seat. The meeting was attended by General Maczek’s granddaughter Karolina Maczek-Skillen and PHM Director Robert Kostro. After extensive efforts, the Polish History Museum has been enriched with extraordinary exhibits: a uniform, a…
Thanks to the long-standing efforts of the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage and the personal involvement of the Deputy Prime Minister/Minister of Culture and National Heritage Professor Piotr Gliński, this summer – after 83 years – a series of seven paintings by members of St Luke’s Brotherhood and four tapestries by Mieczysław Szymański will…
The Polish History Museum invites you to its YouTube channel to watch a debate entitled Ukraine and the Borders of the West. ‘False history is the mistress of false politics’ claimed the classic of Polish historiography Józef Szujski in the 19th century. History, or rather historiographical myths, also reverberate in Russian justifications for the current…
The year 2021 was announced by the Sejm of the Republic of Poland as the Year of Cyprian Kamil Norwid. The year 2022 is, in turn, the Year of Polish Romanticism. Both of these facts became a pretext to find mainly Polish and Parisian ‘places of Norwid’ and an attempt to answer the question: what…
It was truly a masterful plan – starting a war as part of a a bloc of losing countries and ending up as the winner! How did Józef Piłsudski manage to do this? Wojciech Roszkowski talks about it in his book. Master game traces the birth of a free country that was erased from the…
