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The Supreme Administrative Court has revoked the decision of the Provincial Administrative Court and dismissed the petition for suspension of the execution of the order issued by the Minister of Culture and National Heritage on the merger between the Museum of the Second World War and the Museum of Westerplatte and the War of 1939.
At 10 o’clock on 23 March 2017, the Museum of the Second World War was opened to the visitors. The ceremony was kept low key. Invited thereto were veterans and donors. The guests included e.g. Prof. Joanna Penson, liaison officer of the Union of Armed Struggle, then prisoner of the Ravensbrück concentration camp, Prof.
Westerplatte has been nominated for the badge of European Heritage Label.
On 23 September 2016 the Minister of Culture and National Heritage, Professor Piotr Gliński, issued a new ordinance shifting the date of the merger of the Museum of the Second World War and the Museum of Westerplatte and War of 1939 to 1 February 2017.
On 30 January 2017, the ProvincialAdministrative Court reconsidered the petition for staying enforcement of the contested museum merger order.
Museum of the Second World War in Gdańsk informs that on 24 January 2017, the Supreme Administrative Court issued the decision that revokes the ruling of the Provincial Administrative Court in Warsaw of 16 November 2016, which suspended the execution of the ordinance of the Minister Of Culture and National Heritage regarding the merger of the st
Upon the request of the Museum of the Second World War in Gdańsk and its Director, on 16 November 2016 the Provincial Administrative Court in Warsaw suspended the execution of the 6 September 2016 ordinance of the Minister of Culture and National Heritage regarding the merger of the state cultural institutions of the Museum of the Second W
With its decision of 16 November 2016 regarding case No.
The Director of the Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, Sara J. Bloomfield, visited the Museum of the Museum of the Second World War on 28 October this year.