Exhibition

Main exhibition

  • Bilet: Regular: 23 zł, Reduced: 16 zł
  • Lokalizacja: Level -3
  • Czas zwiedzania: min. 3 hours
The heart of the Museum is the permanent exhibition of 5,000 m2, which makes it one of the largest historical museum exhibitions on the world.…
  • Bilet: Regular: 23 zł, Reduced: 16 zł
  • Lokalizacja: Level -3
  • Czas zwiedzania: min. 3 hours
The first narrative bloc, entitled: The road to war, is devoted to the origins of the conflict. It focuses on depicting the powers that sought…
  • Bilet: Regular: 23 zł, Reduced: 16 zł
  • Lokalizacja: Level -3
  • Czas zwiedzania: min. 3 hours
The dominant theme of the narrative bloc The horros of war  are the daily lives of ordinary people.  War viewed through the prism of…
  • Bilet: Regular: 23 zł, Reduced: 16 zł
  • Lokalizacja: Level -3
  • Czas zwiedzania: min. 3 hours
The third bloc of the exhibition is called The war’s long shadow. The third bloc of the exhibition links the story of the end of the war…
  • Bilet: Children: 8 zł, Adult: 13 zł
  • Lokalizacja: Level -3
  • Czas zwiedzania: min. 3 hours
The ‘Time travel’ is a part of the Museum’s permanent exhibition addressed at children below the age of 12. It is a reconstruction of a flat of a…
  • Bilet: Admission free
  • Lokalizacja: Westerplatte
  • Czas zwiedzania: min. 3 hours
The outdoor exhibition "Westerplatte:  A spa – a bastion – a symbol", which had been curated by the Museum of the Second World War in…
  • Bilet: Admission free
  • Lokalizacja: Westerplatte
  • Czas zwiedzania: min. 3 hours
Educational path on Westerplatte was opened in June 2011 r. The educational trail on Westerplatte complements the "Westerplatte: A spa – a…

Temporary exhibition

The exhibition is dedicated to a planned and mass extermination action carried out in the area of Pomerania along the Vistula and Kujawy. The victims…
The exhibition presents the history of Guardhouse No. 5, which was a part of the Polish Military Transit Depot defense system. On display are…
The exhibition presented at the Museum of the Second World War in Gdańsk is an expanded version of the exhibition titled "Ramię krzep – Ojczyźnie…
On February 7th, 2023, the fourth anniversary of Jan Olszewski's death, a vernissage of the exhibition dedicated to Prime Minister Jan Olszewski; ‘…
The exhibition ‘Between Life and Death...’ tells stories of rescue and salvation from twelve European countries.   The display includes the…
  The exhibition presents 12 works by the artist, originating from the collection of the Central Pomerania Museum in Słupsk and from the…
The exhibition tells the story of the Great Famine in Soviet Kazakhstan.The Great Famine in Kazakhstan became a demographic catastrophe for the…
  On February 28th, a ceremonial opening of the exhibition board ‘Destroy Poland! Material Losses During the German Occupation 1939-1945" took…
  The exhibition sheds light on German crimes committed against the civilian population in the early days of the Warsaw Uprising and the…
This biographical installation presents the life of one of the greatest Polish heroes – Captain Witold Pilecki, a man of extraordinary destiny. He…
The exhibition is part of a nationwide project coordinated by the National Museum in Poznań. Its main goal is to present to a wide audience silver…
The exhibition ‘Poles in the Free City of Gdańsk’ illustrates the fate of the Polish minority, who from the beginning of the existence of the Free…
At the Museum of the Second World War in Gdańsk, thanks to cooperation withboth institutions and private individuals from all over the country, as…
The exhibition ‘Poles in the Free City of Gdańsk’ illustrates the fate of the Polish minority, who from the beginning of the existence of the Free…
Dedicated to the tragic fate of the Polish inmates of one of the special camps of the Soviet NKVD organisation, to commemorate the murdered victims,…
The exhibition ‘On Broad Waters. A Tale of the Polish Maritime Club’ is the fascinating story of the Gdańsk sailing club with pre-war traditions. The…
The exhibition included 40 photographs from the National Archives of Mexico and the National Digital Archives in Poland. It narrated the visit of…
At the Museum of the Second World War in Gdańsk, thanks to cooperation with both institutions and private individuals from all over the country, as…
The exhibition presents the profiles of nine of the defenders of the Military Transit Depot at Westerplatte, who fell during the battle which took…
As part of the celebrations of the 40th anniversary of the restoration of the memorial cross at Westerplatte, the Museum of the Second World War in…
The idea of the exhibition is to present the history of the Upper Silesia region to people from outside this part of the country through the prism of…
  • Bilet: WSTĘP WOLNY
  • Lokalizacja: poziom -2
  • Data: 15.05.2021 - 31.08.2021
  The exhibition consists of 29 works of art by Tadeusz Pietrzykowski, made using various techniques and covering many topics. The exhibition…
The exhibition “Poles in the Free City of Gdańsk” presents the fates of the Polish minority, which has served Poland since the beginning of WMG’s […
The exhibition will showcase in an innovative and artistic manner the photography project "The Airmen" by the photographer Michał Solarski. #…

EXHIBITION ARCHIVE

From 15 July 2020 the exhibition “The Image of Treblinka in the Eyes of Samuel Willenberg” will be available to visitors of the Museum of the Second…
Why do we need a cultural heritage? It becomes more and more considered to be a strategical resource in the 21st century. Cities develop various…
25th of May there was a ceremonial opening of the temporary exhibition entitled "Boxers in the hell of the camps." The exhibition commemorates the…
White-and-red flags, banners with slogans “Leve de Bevrijders!” (Long live the liberators!), “Long live Poland”, flowers – in this way the Flemish…
  • Lokalizacja: poziom - 2
  • Czas zwiedzania: około 1 godziny
  • Data: 23.11.2017 - 31.12.2017
Preserve the memory. Unfree labour and slave labour of Polish citizens for the Nazi Germany from 1939 until 1945. The exhibition presents the fate…
  • Bilet: Bilety: 1 zł
  • Lokalizacja: Poziom -3 / Sala wystaw czasowych
  • Czas zwiedzania: około 1 godziny
  • Data: 22.09.2017 - 15.03.2018
Among the archives of the Museum of the Second World War, there is a collection of over 260 unique photographs, taken by the pre-war Warsaw…
  • Bilet: Bilety: 1 zł
  • Lokalizacja: Poziom -3 / Sala wystaw czasowych
  • Czas zwiedzania: około 1 godziny
  • Data: 01.09.2017 - 15.03.2018
The exhibition Seven looks at Westerplatte – presentation of the findings of the first stage of the archaeological research on Westerplatte showcases…
  • Lokalizacja: Europejskie Centrum Solidarności
  • Czas zwiedzania: min. 1 h
  • Data: 06.05.2016 - 30.09.2016
The end of the war brought different consequences for the different European nations. For the Germans, it represented a disaster and the collapse of…