The museum has 44,000 m2 of floorspace over six levels and was built at a cost of 750 million zloty (€162 million).
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Remains of medieval tower uncovered in Polish city
The tower was part of the city’s fortifications before it was handed over to the Jesuit order.
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The forgotten Polish priest who was one of the first advocates for international human rights
Filip Mazurczak
Paweł Włodkowic called for tolerance towards pagans, Jews and Muslims.
One of Europe’s largest Roman-era pottery production sites discovered in Poland
The site was discovered in the 1990s, but only now probed with modern technology.
Polish toymaker withdraws Nazi models following US criticism
The firm’s boss has also apologised.
Israel protests appointment of former far-right activist to head Polish state history body
The IPN defended its appointee, saying he has “apologised” for his “mistakes”.
Poland’s 1979 “winter of the century” in photographs
The winter of 1978/79 in Poland was one of the harshest in living memory
Polish king’s suit of armour returned by Hungary after 18th century bureaucratic error
The childhood suit of armour belonged to 16th century Polish king Sigismund II Augustus.
Wolves return to forests around Warsaw 50 years after being culled to near extinction
A pack of wolves has settled in a national park just 20 kilometres from the centre of Warsaw.
Russian city removes “untruthful” plaque commemorating thousands of Poles murdered by Soviets
Local prosecutors claim the plaque “does not reflect the actual truth”.
Amid another epidemic 60 years ago, a Polish scientist created the world’s first polio vaccine
Magdalena Kozela
Saturday marks the seventh anniversary of the death of Hilary Koprowski, a pioneering virologist.
Poles see Auschwitz primarily as site of Polish martyrdom not Jewish suffering, finds study
The research also finds significant gaps in factual knowledge about the camp’s victims among Poles.
“Poles should pay us for liberating them”: Russia responds to Kaczyński’s WW2 reparations call
Kaczyński says that Poland deserves war reparations not only from Germany, but also from Russia.
We must fight anti-Polonism just as we have fought antisemitism, says Polish PM
The prime minister also supported President Duda’s decision not to travel to Israel to “listen to Putin’s lies”.
