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Extraordinary tale of inner city Warsaw and a lost Picasso brought to life in fascinating new exhibition

Entitled “Museum of Glass Houses”, the exhibition sheds light on three housing estates in the city’s north-western Wola district, built in the 1930s and 1940s for workers at nearby factories. Muzeum Szklanych Domów

In preparation for the exhibition which explores “fulfilled and unfulfilled dreams of modernisation”, the organisers drew on residents’ memories of the area, as well as their parents’ and grandparents’, during and after WWII.

Food for thought: Museum serves up kosher delights at Food Safety Congress

Held at the POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews in Warsaw, Poland’s first Kosher Expo set out to dispel myths about kosher food and to inform the food industry about the certification process and promoting their products abroad.

"Une avant-garde Polonaise" exhibition at the Pompidou Center in Paris

The exhibition of works by Katarzyna Kobro and Władysław Strzemiński, co-organized by the Museum of Art in Łódź and the Adam Mickiewicz Institute, was opened at the Pompidou Centre in Paris. 

Warsaw’s famed poster museum hits 50

One of the Polish capital’s unique institutions, the museum is home to art that defied the communist censors.

Trainspotting: The Secret Life of Warszawa Główna

Walking amid the random assembly of items, one gets the sense of a museum born of a different time; frankly, it feels all the better for it. And alongside the old railway tracks there’s one of the coolest places to hang out, Nocny Market.

One of Poland’s richest women builds new art museum in stunning 12th century Swiss monastery

Located in the picturesque town of Susch, nestled between the mountains and Inn river, Grazyna Kulczyk’s museum will house a collection of modern art from Poland and across Central and Eastern Europe.

Gross-Rosen Museum under culture ministry

The Culture Ministry will join forces with local authorities in administrating the Gross-Rosen Museum on the site of the World War II Gross-Rosen Nazi-German death camp in southern Poland.

Pinball Wizards! Tourism With A Twist For The Alternative Traveller…

Intrepid travellers to Poland have been increasingly enthralled by the wild and the weird - these Pinball museums in Kraków and Warsaw are both, and they don’t disappoint.

Warsaw opens Polish vodka museum

A museum dedicated to vodka will open in Warsaw next week.

The Henryk Sienkiewicz museum in Oblęgorek

The Polish nation so loved the Nobel prize winning author Henryk Sienkiewicz, that they purchased a country residence for him. It can be visited in the village of Oblęgorek, near Kielce.

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