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