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Two looted paintings return to Polish museum

Piotr Gliński, the Polish culture minister, who attended a ceremony marking the paintings' return to their old home said they will be hung exactly where they had hung up to 1939. Tomasz Wojtasik/PAP

Two 15th-century paintings looted by German forces during World War II have been returned to Poland.

Stolen Polish artwork sold in Germany

A Polish painting stolen from the National Museum in Warsaw has been sold at a Berlin auction house despite Polish requests that be withdrawn from the sale.

Govt. launches ‘Empty Frames’ campaign to ramp up efforts to regain WWII looted art

The Empty Frames campaign that aims to remind people about Polish works of art and culture stolen during World War II by both the German and Soviet occupiers, will see, among other things, special plaques providing information about Polish war losses in culture placed in 12 cities across Poland.

Bookworm heaven: Automatic 24hr book dispensers set to become 2022’s newest trend

First appearing in Łódź’s Manufaktura complex in the summer of 2020, the idea has since taken off rapidly with an increasing number of cities getting in on the act.

From a gold-winning triple-jumper dubbed the Silesian Kangaroo through to a gold-smuggling discuss thrower in WWII, a new mural pays homage to 100 years of sporting legends

The medley of household names include gold-winning pole-vaulter Władysław Kozakiewicz whose celebratory ‘up yours’ gesture towards the Russian crowd scandalized the 1980 Moscow Olympics and world-record discus thrower Halina Konopacka who during WWII squirrelled Poland’s gold reserve to France.

Blooming marvelous! Village’s traditional ‘flower carpets’ to be entered into UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage List

The news comes three years after the carpets in Spycimierz were inducted into Poland’s own list of cultural treasures, and 19-months after they were nominated for UNESCO recognition by the Ministry of Culture & National Heritage.

Government plans separate ministry of sport

The government has unveiled plans to re-establish a ministry of sport in a draft decree published on Monday, just a few months after the old ministry was abolished.

Facebook unblocks IPN page

Facebook has unblocked the English-language page of Poland's Institute of National Remembrance (IPN), a national organisation set up to investigate Nazi and communist crimes against the Polish people.

Facebook blocking IPN over WWII content demands strong reaction, warns Culture Ministry

The social media giant blocked the Institute of National Remembrance after it posted information about the Germanisation of Polish children during WWII.

Wood you believe it! Spectacular wooden churches lovingly restored to their former glory

The newly-renovated churches will now become part of the ‘Tourist Trail of Wooden Churches of Wielkopolska’.

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How Warsaw was rebuilt using mountains of post-war rubble illustrated in fascinating new exhibition

The story, which is being told in the 70th year since rebuilding was officially completed, is an important one as perhaps no other city in history has had to handle, process and use as much rubble as Warsaw did in the late 1940s and early 1950s.

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