Robert Kostro had led the museum for 18 years since its founding.
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Poland’s first queer museum to open in Warsaw with support of city hall
“Warsaw is also a city with a queer history and a queer identity,” says the deputy mayor.
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Austrian museum returns animal specimens stolen from Warsaw in WWII
The Haus der Natur in Salzberg discovered the items in a warehouse in 2017 and informed the Polish embassy.
Poland’s first comics museum planned in Kraków
An initial exhibition will open this Friday.
Polish government turns communist-era hotel into museum instead of planned shopping centre
Hotel Cracovia operated from 1965-2011.
Three resign from Auschwitz council following “political” appointment of former PM
Beata Szydło says it is “an honour and great responsibility” to be chosen.
Jewish museum condemns Catholic university for not disciplining professor over ritual murder claims
“Blood libel” claims are a longstanding antisemitic canard.
Lost painting by Polish-Jewish artist returns to Poland after discovery in New York storage
The self-portrait, which sold last year for 2.7 million zloty, will go on public display for the first time in over a century.
Record 2.3 million people visited Auschwitz in 2019
The growing number of visitors also brings challenges as the former camp increasingly becomes a tourist destination.
Poland’s oldest museum reopens after ten years of closure and controversy
Nicholas Hodge
The Czartoryski Museum reopens following a controversial state purchase.
Polish cultural institutions are rotting from the top down
Piotr Kosiewski
There is growing concern about the situation at two major public museums in Warsaw, highlighting the problems caused by how the current government exercises power.
The politics of heroism: the museum of Poles saving Jews in World War II
Stanley Bill
Stanley Bill examines how the PiS government engages in martyrology and seeks to privilege the narratives of Poles who helped saved Jews; a new museum opens in the village of Markowa.
