Warsaw Rising Museum
Museum of the 1944 Warsaw Rising, in a converted tram power station in the Wola district.
The Warsaw Rising Museum opened on 31 July 2004, the eve of the sixtieth anniversary of the insurrection. It commemorates the rising launched by the Home Army on 1 August 1944 against the German occupation, which lasted 63 days and ended in capitulation; some 16,000 insurgents and a far larger number of civilians died, and the city was subsequently razed. The museum occupies a disused tram power station of 1908 on Przyokopowa Street, converted by the Kraków architect Wojciech Obtułowicz.
The permanent exhibition is arranged chronologically over several levels of the old turbine hall, using photographs, film, sound, original objects and reconstructed spaces such as a walk-through sewer passage of the kind used by insurgents to move between districts. A full-size replica of a Liberator bomber recalls the Allied airdrops over the city. Outside, the Wall of Remembrance carries the names of the fallen, and the Freedom Park surrounds it. The museum also runs an archive, an oral history programme and a photographic collection.
Highlights
- Permanent exhibition in the turbine hall of a 1908 power station
- Replica Liberator bomber recalling the Allied airdrops
- Walk-through reconstruction of a sewer passage
- Wall of Remembrance carrying the names of the fallen
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