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

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Title:	History and Politics and the Politics of History: Poland and Its Museums of Contemporary History
Authors:	Etges, Andreas <University of Munich (LMU), Munich, Germany> Zündorf, Irmgard <Centre for Contemporary History, Potsdam, Germany> Machcewicz, Paweł <Institute of Political Studies of the Polish Academy of Sciences>
Keywords:	Museums;Second world war;Poland;Public history;Politics of history
Issue Date:	2018
Citation:	Andreas Etges, Irmgard Zündorf, Paweł Machcewicz, History and Politics and the Politics of History: Poland and Its Museums of Contemporary History, «International Public History», 1, 2018, n. 1, pp. 1-12
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.
URI:	http://elea.unisa.it:8080/xmlui/handle/10556/5850 http://dx.doi.org/10.14273/unisa-3949 https://doi.org/10.1515/iph-2018-0006
ISSN:	2567-1111
Appears in Collections:	Contributi in rivista / Contributions in journals and magazines

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