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Remember the bitter past at the Museum of WWII
The Museum of the Second World War is a state cultural institution and museum established in 2008 in Gdańsk, Poland, which is devoted to the Second World War. Its exhibits opened in 2017. The Kwadrat architectural team won an architectural competition for the building of the Museum of the Second World War.
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Remember the bitter past at the Museum of WWII
POLAND // The exhibits begin mildly enough, in the reconstructed 1930s apartment of a family of Polish Jews. But the sense of horror quickly grows. Nazi propaganda posters. Sherman tanks. A hall lined with images of bombed-out cities. Then, most affectingly, personal artefacts - farewell notes, house keys belonging to Jews who never came home. Ironically, this masterwork of remembrance has been under attack since it opened in 2017, by a right-wing government that says it's not sufficiently patriotic.