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The Warsaw Rising Museum ( pl, Muzeum Powstania Warszawskiego), in the Wola district of Warsaw, Poland, is dedicated to the Warsaw Uprising of 1944. The institution of the museum was established in 1983, but no construction work took place for many years. It opened on July 31, 2004, marking the 60th anniversary of the uprising. The museum sponsors research into the history of the uprising, and the history and possessions of the
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. It collects and maintains hundreds of
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s – ranging from weapons used by the insurgents to love letters – to present a full picture of the people involved. The museum's stated goals include the creation of an archive of historical information on the uprising and the recording of the stories and memories of living participants. Its director is
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, with historian
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from the Polish Academy of Sciences as his deputy."Rozmowa dnia. Z Dariuszem Gawinem rozmawia Paweł Luty"
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The museum is a member organisation of the
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Exhibitions

The museum covers all aspects of the Warsaw Uprising. There are exhibits over several floors, containing photographs, audio and video, interactive displays, artifacts, written accounts, and other testimonies of how life was during the German occupation of Warsaw, the uprising, and its aftermath. There are displays dedicated to each district of Warsaw. There are many free informative leaflets and flyers (in Polish and English), including 63 calendar pages covering the dates from 1 August 1944 to 2 October 1944 – each containing a summary of the most important events that took place on that particular day of the uprising. Some of the many sections and exhibits include: * The "little insurgent" room: dedicated to the youngest insurgents and children's experience of the uprising. The room includes a replica of the "little insurgent" monument and a colourised photograph of Róża Maria Goździewska, a girl who was known as "the little nurse". * Kino palladium: a small cinema showing a continuous stream of original footage taken by insurgent filmographers in 1944, which was used to produce newsreels that were shown in Warsaw's Palladium cinema during the uprising. * Sewer replicas: one on the mezzanine floor and another in the basement – a chance to experience the practice of using the sewers to move through German-held territory (without the sewage). * Insurgent hospital: help for the wounded during the uprising. * Hangar: a hall containing a full-size
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. * Large cinema: on the ground floor, it presents a film reconstructed of newsreels. It concludes with Chopin's Prelude in D Minor, Op. 28 no. 24. * Observation tower: panoramic views of Warsaw from the top of the building. * Print shop: a room containing original typewriters and printing equipment used for producing underground newspapers during the German occupation. * ''City of Ruins'': a short 3D movie of the ruins of Warsaw taken from the air in 1945. * Nazi section: the horrors of the German occupation and the atrocities committed by the Germans and their collaborators during the uprising. *
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section: the Soviet takeover of Poland, Stalin's puppet government, lack of help for the uprising, and the fate of the Polish resistance in post-war communist Poland.


Other highlights

* A 1940s style cafe * Freedom park: over 30 posters featuring colourised photographs taken during the uprising * Freedom park: a replica of the
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armoured car, manufactured by the insurgents of the Powiśle district of Warsaw during the uprising * Freedom park: remnants of a statue of Józef Poniatowski that was blown up by the Germans after the uprising * Freedom park: street art inspired by the Warsaw Uprising * A
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wall with thousands of names of the fallen and the "Monter bell" * A wall, known as the heart of the museum, with sounds of battle and heartbeats emanating from it * Souvenir shops (one inside the museum and one in the ticket office) * The Warsaw Fotoplastikon, a 1905 stereoscopic theatre used by the Polish underground, now preserved and operated by the Warsaw Uprising Museum as an off-site branch at 51 Jerusalem Avenue


Gallery

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Krystyna Krahelska Krystyna Krahelska "Danuta" (24 March 1914 – 2 August 1944) was a Polish poet, ethnographer, member of the Home Army, and a participant in the Warsaw Uprising. Life She was born in a family estate in Mazurki near Baranovichi in the Russian ...
exhibit File:Replika liberatora.jpg, Replica of a B-24 Liberator File:Kino palladium MPW beax.jpg, Palladium cinema File:Kawiarnia Pół Czarnej Muzeum Powstania Warszawskiego.JPG, 1940s style cafe File:Sala Małego Powstańca MPW 04.JPG, Little insurgent room File:Muzeum Powstania Warszawskiego03.JPG, Print shop File:Jan Bugaj - Rising '44.jpg,
Krzysztof Kamil Baczyński Krzysztof Kamil Baczyński, (; nom de guerre: Jan Bugaj; 22 January 1921 – 4 August 1944) was a Polish poet and Home Army soldier, one of the most well known of the Generation of Columbuses, the young generation of Polish poets, of whom several ...
exhibit File:Muzeum Powstania Warszawskiego szpital powstańczy.JPG, Insurgent hospital File:Wladyslaw Szpilman Warsaw Uprising Museum.JPG,
Władysław Szpilman Władysław Szpilman (; 5 December 1911 – 6 July 2000) was a Polish pianist and classical composer of Jewish descent. Szpilman is widely known as the central figure in the 2002 Roman Polanski film '' The Pianist'', which was based on Szpilman ...
exhibit File:Wystawa Niemcy w okupowanej Warszawie Muzeum Powstania Warszawskiego 05.JPG, Germans in occupied Warsaw File:Wystawa Polska Lubelska Muzeum Powstania Warszawskiego.JPG, Soviet section File:Muzeum Powstania Warszawskiego 3.jpg, Replica of Warsaw sewer File:Kubus MPW beax.jpg, Kubuś armoured car File:Fragment pomnika Józefa Poniatowskiego MPW.JPG, Remnants of a statue of Józef Poniatowski blown up by the Germans


See also

* Home Army * Operation Tempest *
Warsaw Uprising Monument Warsaw Uprising Monument ( pl, pomnik Powstania Warszawskiego) is a monument in Warsaw, Poland, dedicated to the Warsaw Uprising of 1944. Unveiled in 1989, it was sculpted by Wincenty Kućma and the architect was Jacek Budyn. It is located on t ...
*
Cultural representations of the Warsaw Uprising The Monuments to the Warsaw Uprising were first established in Warsaw in the 1970s. Prior to that, there were only monuments to the Red Army soldiers and the Armia Ludowa soldiers. The role of the latter in the city fights in 1944 was exaggerate ...
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Museum of the Second World War The Museum of the Second World War () is a state cultural institution and museum established in 2008 in Gdańsk, Poland which is devoted to the Second World War. Its exhibits opened in 2017. The ''Kwadrat'' architectural team won an architect ...


References


External links


Warsaw Rising Museum
(official website)
Warsaw Rising Museum at Google Cultural Institute
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