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The International Auschwitz Council under the Prime Minister of Poland, during the last meeting on 24-25 May 2016, addopted a resolution about the Museum of the Second World War:

The results of the 2015 ‘Sybilla’ Competition for the Museum Event of the Year were announced on 23 May 2016 at the Grand Theatre — National Opera.

Within the framework of the European Night of Museums the Museum of the Second World War once again invited visitors to Westerplatte, where it prepared a range of attractions in two educational zones on the peninsula. More photos from the event in the gallery. 

Information on a meeting between the Director of the Museum of the Second World War, Professor Paweł Machcewicz, and the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Culture and National Heritage, Professor Piotr Gliński

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.

“Each of you, my young friends, will find in life some personal Westerplatte. Some measure of tasks that have to be undertaken and fulfilled. Some rightful cause for which one cannot avoid fighting. Some duty, or necessity, which one cannot shun. From which one cannot desert.”

2 September saw a sitting of the Advisory Board of the Museum of the Second World War, during which its members were informed about the progress in the construction of the Museum and in the execution of the exhibition.

The inauguration of the open day at the construction site of the Museum of the Second World War was attended by: Minister of Culture and National Heritage Małgorzata Omilanowska, Head of the Prime Ministerial Chancellery Jacek Cichocki, and Gdańsk Mayor Paweł Adamowicz.