„BENE MERITUS” (HIGHLY DISTINGUISHED) 2015
“for exceptional input into promoting the heroism of the people of Warsaw during the Warsaw Uprising and for shaping patriotic attitudes among the young Polish generation”
The Warsaw Uprising Museum – a historical museum established in 1983 as a Museum and Archives of the Warsaw Uprising. The Museum was opened on July 31, 2004, a day before the 60th anniversary of the beginning of the uprising. This place documents the history of the Warsaw Uprising. It conducts research and educational activities connected with the uprising, as well as the history and actions of the Polish Underground State. It is a tribute to those who fought and died for the freedom of Poland and its capital city showing to the next generations of the Polish people the meaning of those events. Warsaw Uprising Museum has got over 30,000 exhibits. In the first 10 years of its functioning, over 4.6 million people visited the place.
The permanent exhibition presents combat and everyday life during the uprising with occupation in the background, followed by a description of the insurgents’ fates in the post-war Poland. It consists of about 1,000 out of 30,000 exhibits that have been gathered: weapons, documents, letters, personal belongings, 1,500 photographs, over 200 biographies and historical information, as well as maps, tables and films from 1944.
