Museum Director Professor Paweł Machcewicz’s announcement

Museum Director Professor Paweł Machcewicz’s announcement regarding the Minister of Culture and National Heritage’s declaration of an intention to merge two public cultural institutions: the Museum of the Second World War in Gdańsk and the Museum of Westerplatte and the War of 1939.

On 15 April this year the Minister of Culture and National Heritage, Professor Piotr Gliński, announced the intention to merge two public cultural institutions: the Museum of the Second World War in Gdańsk and the Museum of Westerplatte and the War of 1939. According to the announcement published  in the Public Information Bulletin, “the merger is to result in an establishment of a new public cultural institution: the Museum of Westerplatte and the War of 1939.”

The management of the Museum of the Second World War had not been informed about that intention and it learned about it from the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage website already after the publication of the Minister’s announcement. The Board of Trustees of the Museum of the Second World War had not been informed about those plans either.

Professor Paweł Machcewicz

Director of the Museum of the Second World War