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Museum of the Second World War

April 07, 2024

The Museum of the Second World War (Polish: Muzeum II Wojny Światowej) 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.

Museum of the Second World War
Exterior of the Museum of WWII
Established23 March 2017; 7 years ago (2017-03-23)
LocationWładysław Bartoszewski Square 1, Gdańsk, Poland
TypeHistory museum
CollectionsMilitary equipment, historical documents and war memorabilia
Visitors417,812 (2017)[1]
DirectorKarol Nawrocki
Websitemuzeum1939.pl/strona-glowna
Sherman Tank of Polish I Corps fighting in Western Europe during WWII
Norden M2WS bombsight
Interior of the museum

The Kwadrat architectural team won an architectural competition for the building of the Museum of the Second World War.[2]

History edit

The museum was created on 1 September 2008 by way of a regulation of the Minister of Culture and National Heritage under the name Westerplatte Museum in Gdańsk. On the same day, Prime Minister Donald Tusk appointed Paweł Machcewicz as his representative for the Museum of the Second World War. The team of the representative for the museum included Piotr Majewski, historian from the Warsaw University and Janusz Marszalec, who was the head of the Public Education Department Office of the Institute of National Remembrance in Gdańsk from 2000 to 2007. The purpose of the team included i.e. the development of a Museum of the Second World War programme concept. The concept has been presented to the public on 6 October 2008 at the Chancellery of the President of the Council of Ministers in Warsaw during a discussion with historians and museologists. The text of the concept and record of the discussion have been published in print,[3] and is also accessible directly via the museum's website.[4] Development of the concept and contents of the exhibitions were co-created by renowned scholars of WWII and totalitarianism, including: Norman Davies, Timothy Snyder, Tomasz Szarota and Włodzimierz Borodziej.[5]

On 26 November 2008, the Minister of Culture and National Heritage, Bogdan Zdrojewski changed the name of this institution from the Westerplatte Museum to the Museum of the Second World War in Gdansk.[6] At the same time, he defined the scope of tasks of the facility stating: “the object of the museum’s operations is to amass a collection pertaining to the history of World War II, safeguard it, and make it available, in particular by means of exhibition, popularisation, education, and publishing”.[6]

On 15 April 2016, the Minister of Culture and National Heritage, Piotr Gliński informed about combining the Museum of the Second World War and the Museum of Westerplatte and the War of 1939 (being organised), created in 2015.[7] Gliński's decision was influenced by the negative reviews of the Main Exhibit of the museum ordered by the ministry and penned by Jan Żaryn, Piotr Semka and Piotr Niwiński.[8][9]

At the end of 2016, the Voivodeship Administrative Court in Gdańsk questioned the decision of the minister of culture about combining the two and ordered works to that effect to be halted until the case is examined. The Ministry of Culture deemed the court's decision as invalid.[10] In January 2017, the Supreme Administrative Court overruled the Voivodeship Administrative Court's decision.[11]

On 30 January 2017, the Voivodeship administrative court in Warsaw halted the combining of the two museums until a lawful examination of the complaint filed by the museum's management and the Commissioner for Human Rights. On 23 March, the museum was opened for the public.[12] On 5 April, the Supreme Voivodeship Court finally overruled the motion to suspend execution of the regulation of the Minister of Culture and National Heritage. On 6 April, Karol Nawrocki was appointed as acting director of the combined facilities.[13]

In September 2019, a statue of Witold Pilecki was erected in front of the museum, showing the cavalry captain in his uniform and a camp cap in hand. The piece's designer was Maciej Jagodziński-Jagennmerr, and the casting and erection cost PLN 400,000.[14]

Building edit

The Prime Minister of Poland, Donald Tusk, opened the architectural competition to design the main building of the museum. The judging panel included such experts as Daniel Libeskind and Jack Lohman, the director of the Museum of London. The winning design was created by the Gdynia-based Kwadrat architectural studio. The seat of the museum faces the Motława River and is located on Wałowa Street in close proximity to the Radunia Canal and the historical Polish Post Office Building. The museum grounds cover an area of 2.5 acres and the building covers approximately 23,000 square metres. The building consists of three major spheres, which symbolically represent the connection between the past, present and future. The most distinctive part of the building is the 40-metre tall leaning tower with a glass façade, which houses a library, reading and conference rooms as well as cafés and restaurants with a view of the panorama of Gdańsk.[15][16]

Management edit

On 7 February 2018, the Minister of Culture and National Heritage and Deputy Prime Minister Piotr Gliński appointed new members of the museum's management board, which include: Sławomir Cenckiewicz, Marek Jan Chodakiewicz, Mirosław Golon, Bogdan Musiał, Andrzej Nowak, Zbigniew Wawer, Tadeusz Wolsza and Jan Żaryn.[17]

Reception edit

The museum has been criticized for what is seen as excessive meddling by the ruling Law and Justice party. The new exhibits placed a high emphasis on the victimization of ethnic Poles during the war.[18][19][20] Several of the original authors filed a lawsuit for copyright infringement when the exhibits were changed without consultation, which they won in October 2020.[21]

In December 2017, a group of five hundred academics signed an open letter that called the changes to the museum "barbaric" and part of an attempt to turn it into a "propaganda institution," while a government spokesperson defended the changes, saying the exhibits needed to be "corrected" and adding that "Some things need to be rearranged, which happens at all museums in the world. But it is also a Polish museum financed by Polish taxpayers. Polish people simply want the museum they have financed to tell their story, to refer to the Polish point of view. The museum is located in Poland and must answer to those who financed it."[22]

Gallery edit

See also edit

References edit

  1. ^ "3. Muzeum II Wojny Światowej: 413 812 zwiedzających". Retrieved 2018-09-02.
  2. ^ "Czerwona wieża nad Gdańskiem". Rzeczpospolita. 2 September 2010. Retrieved 25 September 2011.
  3. ^ „Przegląd Polityczny” nr 91/92, 2008
  4. ^ "Materiały do pobrania « Media « Muzeum II Wojny Światowej". muzeum1939.pl. Retrieved 2015-12-21.
  5. ^ a,78475#.WSHitVP8v6w.facebook "MIIWŚ. Nowy dyrektor zapowiada rychłe zmiany na wystawie". gdansk.pl. Retrieved 2017-05-21. {{cite web}}: Check |url= value (help)
  6. ^ a b "Zarządzenie nr 41 Ministra Kultury i Dziedzictwa Narodowego z dnia 26 listopada 2008 r. zmieniające zarządzenie w sprawie utworzenia Muzeum Westerplatte w Gdańsku" (PDF). bip.mkidn.gov.pl. Retrieved 2015-12-21.
  7. ^ "Obwieszczenie Ministra Kultury i Dziedzictwa Narodowego z dnia 15 kwietnia 2016 r. o zamiarze i przyczynach połączenia państwowych instytucji kultury Muzeum II Wojny Światowej w Gdańsku oraz Muzeum Westerplatte i Wojny 1939" (PDF). bip.mkidn.gov.pl. Retrieved 2016-04-16.
  8. ^ Orzechowski, Hubert (2016-07-15). wojny-swiatowej recenzje,artykuly,391987,1.html ""Niewiele wspólnego z wiedzą historyczną". Muzeum II Wojny Światowej odpowiada recenzentom Glińskiego" (in Polish). Retrieved 2018-01-29. {{cite web}}: Check |url= value (help)
  9. ^ Zalesinski, Jarosław (2015-06-30). "Krytyczne recenzje programu wystawy głównej Muzeum II Wojny Światowej" (in Polish). Retrieved 2018-01-29.
  10. ^ "Konflikt wokół MIIWŚ: prof. Machcewicz usunięty z debaty historyków na polecenie ministra?". www.gdansk.pl. Retrieved 2017-01-16.
  11. ^ "Postanowienie NSA w sprawie wstrzymania wykonania zarządzenia Ministra Kultury dotyczącego połączenia Muzeum II Wojny Światowej w Gdańsku i Muzeum Westerplatte i Wojny 1939". Naczelny Sąd Administracyjny -Komunikaty. 2017-01-24. Retrieved 2017-01-27.
  12. ^ "Aktualności". muzeum1939.pl. 2017-03-24. Retrieved 2017-03-26.
  13. ^ "Dr Karol Nawrocki nowym dyrektorem Muzeum II Wojny Światowej". Onet Trójmiasto (in Polish). 2017-04-06. Retrieved 2017-04-06.
  14. ^ Pomnik rotmistrza Pileckiego stanie przed Muzeum II Wojny Światowej
  15. ^ "Museum of the Second World War". Retrieved 2018-09-02.
  16. ^ "Museum of the Second World War / Studio Architektoniczne Kwadrat". Retrieved 2018-09-03.
  17. ^ "Minister Kultury powołał członków Rady Muzeum". Retrieved 2018-09-03.
  18. ^ "TVP nadaje na twórców Muzeum II Wojny Światowej. Seans bzdur i oszczerstw". oko.press. Retrieved 15 October 2020.
  19. ^ Ciobanu, Claudia (15 May 2017). "Poland's WWII museum under political bombardment". POLITICO. Retrieved 15 October 2020.
  20. ^ Hackmann, Jörg (2 October 2018). "Defending the "Good Name" of the Polish Nation: Politics of History as a Battlefield in Poland, 2015–18". Journal of Genocide Research. 20 (4): 587–606. doi:10.1080/14623528.2018.1528742.
  21. ^ "Wyrok w procesie o wystawę w Muzeum II Wojny Światowej". oko.press. Retrieved 15 October 2020.
  22. ^ "Outcry over Polish government's changes to Second World War museum". The Art Newspaper - International art news and events. 2017-12-21. Retrieved 2022-05-04.

Further reading edit

  • Hackmann, Jörg (2018). "Defending the "Good Name" of the Polish Nation: Politics of History as a Battlefield in Poland, 2015–18". Journal of Genocide Research. 20 (4): 587–606. doi:10.1080/14623528.2018.1528742. S2CID 81922100.
  • Clarke, David; Duber, Paweł (2020). "Polish Cultural Diplomacy and Historical Memory: the Case of the Museum of the Second World War in Gdańsk". International Journal of Politics, Culture, and Society. 33 (1): 49–66. doi:10.1007/s10767-018-9294-x. ISSN 1573-3416. S2CID 53073981.

External links edit

  • Museum’s Official Website

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building of the Museum of the Second World War 2 Contents 1 History 2 Building 3 Management 4 Reception 5 Gallery 6 See also 7 References 8 Further reading 9 External linksHistory editThe museum was created on 1 September 2008 by way of a regulation of the Minister of Culture and National Heritage under the name Westerplatte Museum in Gdansk On the same day Prime Minister Donald Tusk appointed Pawel Machcewicz as his representative for the Museum of the Second World War The team of the representative for the museum included Piotr Majewski historian from the Warsaw University and Janusz Marszalec who was the head of the Public Education Department Office of the Institute of National Remembrance in Gdansk from 2000 to 2007 The purpose of the team included i e the development of a Museum of the Second World War programme concept The concept has been presented to the public on 6 October 2008 at the Chancellery of the President of the Council of Ministers in Warsaw during a discussion with historians and museologists The text of the concept and record of the discussion have been published in print 3 and is also accessible directly via the museum s website 4 Development of the concept and contents of the exhibitions were co created by renowned scholars of WWII and totalitarianism including Norman Davies Timothy Snyder Tomasz Szarota and Wlodzimierz Borodziej 5 On 26 November 2008 the Minister of Culture and National Heritage Bogdan Zdrojewski changed the name of this institution from the Westerplatte Museum to the Museum of the Second World War in Gdansk 6 At the same time he defined the scope of tasks of the facility stating the object of the museum s operations is to amass a collection pertaining to the history of World War II safeguard it and make it available in particular by means of exhibition popularisation education and publishing 6 On 15 April 2016 the Minister of Culture and National Heritage Piotr Glinski informed about combining the Museum of the Second World War and the Museum of Westerplatte and the War of 1939 being organised created in 2015 7 Glinski s decision was influenced by the negative reviews of the Main Exhibit of the museum ordered by the ministry and penned by Jan Zaryn Piotr Semka and Piotr Niwinski 8 9 At the end of 2016 the Voivodeship Administrative Court in Gdansk questioned the decision of the minister of culture about combining the two and ordered works to that effect to be halted until the case is examined The Ministry of Culture deemed the court s decision as invalid 10 In January 2017 the Supreme Administrative Court overruled the Voivodeship Administrative Court s decision 11 On 30 January 2017 the Voivodeship administrative court in Warsaw halted the combining of the two museums until a lawful examination of the complaint filed by the museum s management and the Commissioner for Human Rights On 23 March the museum was opened for the public 12 On 5 April the Supreme Voivodeship Court finally overruled the motion to suspend execution of the regulation of the Minister of Culture and National Heritage On 6 April Karol Nawrocki was appointed as acting director of the combined facilities 13 In September 2019 a statue of Witold Pilecki was erected in front of the museum showing the cavalry captain in his uniform and a camp cap in hand The piece s designer was Maciej Jagodzinski Jagennmerr and the casting and erection cost PLN 400 000 14 Building editThe Prime Minister of Poland Donald Tusk opened the architectural competition to design the main building of the museum The judging panel included such experts as Daniel Libeskind and Jack Lohman the director of the Museum of London The winning design was created by the Gdynia based Kwadrat architectural studio The seat of the museum faces the Motlawa River and is located on Walowa Street in close proximity to the Radunia Canal and the historical Polish Post Office Building The museum grounds cover an area of 2 5 acres and the building covers approximately 23 000 square metres The building consists of three major spheres which symbolically represent the connection between the past present and future The most distinctive part of the building is the 40 metre tall leaning tower with a glass facade which houses a library reading and conference rooms as well as cafes and restaurants with a view of the panorama of Gdansk 15 16 Management editOn 7 February 2018 the Minister of Culture and National Heritage and Deputy Prime Minister Piotr Glinski appointed new members of the museum s management board which include Slawomir Cenckiewicz Marek Jan Chodakiewicz Miroslaw Golon Bogdan Musial Andrzej Nowak Zbigniew Wawer Tadeusz Wolsza and Jan Zaryn 17 Reception editThe museum has been criticized for what is seen as excessive meddling by the ruling Law and Justice party The new exhibits placed a high emphasis on the victimization of ethnic Poles during the war 18 19 20 Several of the original authors filed a lawsuit for copyright infringement when the exhibits were changed without consultation which they won in October 2020 21 In December 2017 a group of five hundred academics signed an open letter that called the changes to the museum barbaric and part of an attempt to turn it into a propaganda institution while a government spokesperson defended the changes saying the exhibits needed to be corrected and adding that Some things need to be rearranged which happens at all museums in the world But it is also a Polish museum financed by Polish taxpayers Polish people simply want the museum they have financed to tell their story to refer to the Polish point of view The museum is located in Poland and must answer to those who financed it 22 Gallery edit nbsp Polish city street 1930s nbsp German Junkers Ju 87 Stuka at permanent exhibition nbsp Soviet T 34 Tank inside nbsp Enigma machine cipher machine nbsp A stone from Krepa Kaszubska marking an oak tree planted to celebrate the birth of Adolf Hitler https de wikipedia org wiki Hitler Eiche nbsp DKW motorcycle nbsp Spanish nationalist posters nbsp Photographs of Holocaust victims nbsp German propaganda poster nbsp Eagle from the banner of the First Polish Corps nbsp Wireless Set No 19 nbsp Joseph Stalin s pipe nbsp Exterior of the museumSee also editInclined building Museums in Poland The International Museum of World War II Mausoleum of Polish Rural Martyrology in MichniowReferences edit 3 Muzeum II Wojny Swiatowej 413 812 zwiedzajacych Retrieved 2018 09 02 Czerwona wieza nad Gdanskiem Rzeczpospolita 2 September 2010 Retrieved 25 September 2011 Przeglad Polityczny nr 91 92 2008 Materialy do pobrania Media Muzeum II Wojny Swiatowej muzeum1939 pl Retrieved 2015 12 21 a 78475 WSHitVP8v6w facebook MIIWS Nowy dyrektor zapowiada rychle zmiany na wystawie gdansk pl Retrieved 2017 05 21 a href Template Cite web html title Template Cite web cite web a Check url value help a b Zarzadzenie nr 41 Ministra Kultury i Dziedzictwa Narodowego z dnia 26 listopada 2008 r zmieniajace 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dotyczacego polaczenia Muzeum II Wojny Swiatowej w Gdansku i Muzeum Westerplatte i Wojny 1939 Naczelny Sad Administracyjny Komunikaty 2017 01 24 Retrieved 2017 01 27 Aktualnosci muzeum1939 pl 2017 03 24 Retrieved 2017 03 26 Dr Karol Nawrocki nowym dyrektorem Muzeum II Wojny Swiatowej Onet Trojmiasto in Polish 2017 04 06 Retrieved 2017 04 06 Pomnik rotmistrza Pileckiego stanie przed Muzeum II Wojny Swiatowej Museum of the Second World War Retrieved 2018 09 02 Museum of the Second World War Studio Architektoniczne Kwadrat Retrieved 2018 09 03 Minister Kultury powolal czlonkow Rady Muzeum Retrieved 2018 09 03 TVP nadaje na tworcow Muzeum II Wojny Swiatowej Seans bzdur i oszczerstw oko press Retrieved 15 October 2020 Ciobanu Claudia 15 May 2017 Poland s WWII museum under political bombardment POLITICO Retrieved 15 October 2020 Hackmann Jorg 2 October 2018 Defending the Good Name of the Polish Nation Politics of History as a Battlefield in Poland 2015 18 Journal of Genocide Research 20 4 587 606 doi 10 1080 14623528 2018 1528742 Wyrok w procesie o wystawe w Muzeum II Wojny Swiatowej oko press Retrieved 15 October 2020 Outcry over Polish government s changes to Second World War museum The Art Newspaper International art news and events 2017 12 21 Retrieved 2022 05 04 Further reading editHackmann Jorg 2018 Defending the Good Name of the Polish Nation Politics of History as a Battlefield in Poland 2015 18 Journal of Genocide Research 20 4 587 606 doi 10 1080 14623528 2018 1528742 S2CID 81922100 Clarke David Duber Pawel 2020 Polish Cultural Diplomacy and Historical Memory the Case of the Museum of the Second World War in Gdansk International Journal of Politics Culture and Society 33 1 49 66 doi 10 1007 s10767 018 9294 x ISSN 1573 3416 S2CID 53073981 External links editMuseum s Official Website54 21 21 N 18 39 38 E 54 35583 N 18 66056 E 54 35583 18 66056 Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Museum of the Second World War amp oldid 1216163964, wikipedia, 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