The animated film “Dżennet”, produced in 2019 by the Emigration Museum in Gdynia, received an award in the Museums in Short competition for the best video in the Storytelling category. “Dżennet” is a short animation directed by Tomasz Popakul, which tells about the extraordinary biography of Dżennet Dżabaga-Skibniewska – a Caucasian princess who settled in…
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…
The book Master game. Józef Piłsudski and the Rebirth of Poland by Wojciech Roszkowski has been published recently by the Polish History Museum. The 123-year experience of five Polish generations, with no state of their own under the three partitions, may have been a serious burden. But the huge task of the creation of a…
The Polish History Museum (PHM) has acquired an extraordinarily precious collection of 22 sashes worn around the waist over the kontush (an outer robe with its sleeves cut from the armhole to the elbow), a key element of the Polish nobility’s attire. The purchase has been funded by the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage….
‘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…
