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Professor Doctor Bogusław Szot (1931–2012)

Author: Board and Scientific Council of the Institute of Agrophysics Polish Academy of Sciences in Board and Scientific Council of the Inst
Publication venue: 'Uniwersytetu Marii Curie-Sklodowskiej w Lublinie'
Publication date: 27/05/2015
Field of study

University of Maria Curie-Skłodowska (UMCS): Scientific e-Journals / Uniwersytet Marii Curie-Skłodowskiej: e-czasopisma naukowe

History and Politics and the Politics of History: Poland and Its Museums of Contemporary History

Author: Etges Andreas <University of Munich (LMU), Munich, Germany>
Machcewicz Paweł <Institute of Political Studies of the Polish Academy of Sciences>
Zündorf Irmgard <Centre for Contemporary History, Potsdam, Germany>
Publication venue: 'Walter de Gruyter GmbH'
Publication date: 01/01/2018
Field of study

The Polish museum landscape has turned into a battleground between politicians and historians. Much of that has focused on the highly praised Museum of the Second World War in Gdańsk which opened in March 2017. Its founding director Pawel Machcewicz was dismissed when the conservative-nationalist party “Law and Justice” came to power. The article and the interview with Machcewicz discuss that story, the founding and exhibition design of other Polish history museums as well as the politics of history in Poland and beyond

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