The Museum of the Polish People's Republic () was a museum in

Kraków , officially the Royal Capital City of Kraków, is the List of cities and towns in Poland, second-largest and one of the oldest cities in Poland. Situated on the Vistula River in Lesser Poland Voivodeship, the city has a population of 804,237 ...

Poland Poland, officially the Republic of Poland, is a country in Central Europe. It extends from the Baltic Sea in the north to the Sudetes and Carpathian Mountains in the south, bordered by Lithuania and Russia to the northeast, Belarus and Ukrai ...

devoted to documenting the forty-year history of the communist

People's Republic of Poland The Polish People's Republic (1952–1989), formerly the Republic of Poland (1947–1952), and also often simply known as Poland, was a country in Central Europe that existed as the predecessor of the modern-day democratic Republic of Poland. ...

(PRL). The museum had originally been established in 2008 as a department of the Museum of Polish History in Warsaw. However, in November 2012 the city council of Kraków decided to set up an independent museum in its place, run by the city itself. The new museum opened in the old Kino Światowid ("

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Cinema"), a formerly state-owned cinema in the

Nowa Huta Nowa Huta (, literally "The New Ironworks") is the easternmost district of Kraków, Poland. With more than 200,000 inhabitants, it is one of the most populous areas of the city. Until 1990, the neighbouring districts were considered expansions o ...

district of Kraków, where it ran exhibitions and offered guided tours through the nuclear bunkers of Nowa Huta. The museum was closed in 2019 and was replaced by the Nowa Huta Museum on the same site.

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Nowa Huta Museum home page
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