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Bizarre button museum kept in a 100-year-old suitcase and exhibited in a shop window tells fascinating story of Polish history

Museum founder and chief button hunter Jacek Rutkowski told TFN: “Buttons are a pretext to explore historical events and tell stories about important and interesting characters.” Kalbar/TFN

Claiming to be the smallest museum in Europe, it includes buttons from Poland’s wartime commander-in-chief Władysław Sikorski, Communist leader Wojciech Jaruzelski, recently murdered mayor of Gdansk Paweł Adamowicz and even Pope John Paul II, all of which offer an exhilarating whistle-stop tour of Poland’s recent history and contemporary national life.

Museums throw open their doors to Warsaw’s night-time crowd

The annual museum night has become something of an institution in the capital with people eager to grab a piece of night-time culture.

National Museum in Kraków draws huge interest during Night of Museums

Close to 30,000 people visited the National Museum in Kraków, southern Poland, on Friday during this year’s Night of Museums. The longest queues lined up in front of main building of the museum to get a chance to see Leonard da Vinci's 'Lady with an Ermine'.

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

“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.

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