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Railway to hell! WWII station from where thousands of Jews were sent to their deaths renovated to house Łódź ghetto monument

The building was used as an Umschlagplatz, or collection point for Jews who had been corralled inside the Litzmannstadt ghetto during the Germans’ deliberate and systematic murder spree across occupied Europe. UM Łódź

“For most people who were imprisoned in the ghetto, Radegast Station was either the first thing they saw after arriving or the last they saw of it before their death. The whole ghetto passed through this point.”

Computer Museum in Katowice to cooperate with British Computing Museum

Established over six years ago, the Museum of Computer and Information Technology in Katowice, southern Poland, plans to cooperate with the prestigious National Museum of Computing in Bletchley Park, located close to London.

Warsaw museum launches film comp to document connection 9 million descendants of Polish Jews around the world have to Poland today

The fourteen winning films will be featured in a POLIN museum exhibition which includes Roman Gutek, founder of the Warsaw Film Festival and film distribution company Gutek Film.

The past is a foreign country: the new Warsaw museum exploring the everyday reality of Poland’s communist heritage

A new museum encourages people to take a rummage through Poland’s communist past and learn what life was like under the Party.

It’s back, nearly! Poland’s oldest museum housing masterpieces including da Vinci’s ‘Lady with an Ermine’ set to reopen

The museum bears the name of the Czartoryskis, a Polish princely family. Founded in Puławy in 1801 by Princess Izabela Czartoryska, it claims to be the oldest museum facility in Poland.

Crafty devil: Meet the 90-year-old ex-soldier who has the only DEVIL museum in the country

Behind a series of heavily secured doors lies a dusty, 15-square-metre room holding over 1,300 devils. Most are carved from wood but others are sculpted from coal, cast from metal and even put together from old railway engine parts. The curious museum is not an anachronistic joke, though. It offers a fascinating and unique look at how the devil has been portrayed in Polish folk culture over the centuries.

Leading Lights: Warsaw’s neon revival

After experiencing some dark days after the end of communism, neon is bouncing back and a Polish-British couple are the forefront of its return.

True to her word: Kulczyk’s eagerly awaited mountain-top art museum opens to the public with ‘feminist’ exhibition

Talking to TFN in August last year, museum owner Grażyna Kulczyk said: “Artists, movements and ideas that to date have been marginalised or left outside of the canon will move centre stage and be given new opportunities to be heard. In particular, though not exclusively, female artists will be offered new contexts and positions.”

Auschwitz Museum attracts over 2 mln visitors in 2018

Over 2.15 million people visited the former Nazi German death camp of Auschwitz, in southern Poland in 2018, the Auschwitz Museum wrote on its website on Friday. This is almost 50,000 more visitors than in 2017.

Goodbye Lenin: Praga's Czar PRL museum prepares to bid farewell to Warsaw's Praga district

Fears about the gentrification of the Praga district mount as one of the area’s unique attractions packs its bags and heads across the river.

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