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The daughter of Gen. Anders, Senator Anna Maria Anders, currently the secretary of state at the Chancellery of the Prime Minister and the Prime Minister’s plenipotentiary for international dialogue, visited the Museum of the Second World War on Sunday, 23 April.  To our deep satisfaction, Ms.

The dominant theme of the narrative bloc The horros of war  are the daily lives of ordinary people. 

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.

The first narrative bloc, entitled: The road to war, is devoted to the origins of the conflict.

On 6 April 2017, Minister of Culture and National Heritage Piotr Gliński decided to appoint Karol Nawrocki acting director of the newly-created Museum of the Second World War. The statute of the new museum combines activities of both existing institutions and provides for a branch called the Museum of Westerplatte and the War of 1939.

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.