The Museum was created in 1993 but in 2015, it relocated to its current site in the impressive WarsawCitadel and the permanent collection can now be viewed in appropriately grand and stoic surroundings. The museum documents the shocking events of 1940, known as the Katyń Massacre, when around 22,000 Polish officers were executed by their Soviet captors in the middle of a Russian forest. The museum has a host of objects, documents and personal effects that have been recovered from the site near Smoleńsk, Russia. The artefacts from the victims and a scrolling list of the victim’s names needs no explanation and the multimedia presentation of the extenuating circumstances, the victim's stories and historical relevancy are well thought out and it's worth exploring the whole museum.
20.09.2014
Lance Grundy
Great Britain This moving exhibition in the Polish Army Museum is a must-see for anyone interested in twentieth century history.
As explained above, the exhibits are signed in Polish only but, to be honest, they're self-explanatory so don't let that put you off visiting it if you're in Warsaw.
The Katyn Massacre was one of the key events of the twentieth century and it has cast a very long shadow which stretches into the present day.
I'd recommend you read either "Katyn 1940: The Documentary Evidence of the West's Betrayal" by Eugenia Maresch or Allen Paul's "Katyn: Stalin's Massacre and the Triumph of Truth Over Lies" before you visit and/or watch Andrzej Wajda's superb 2009 film "Katyn".
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Lance Grundy
Great Britain
This moving exhibition in the Polish Army Museum is a must-see for anyone interested in twentieth century history. As explained above, the exhibits are signed in Polish only but, to be honest, they're self-explanatory so don't let that put you off visiting it if you're in Warsaw. The Katyn Massacre was one of the key events of the twentieth century and it has cast a very long shadow which stretches into the present day. I'd recommend you read either "Katyn 1940: The Documentary Evidence of the West's Betrayal" by Eugenia Maresch or Allen Paul's "Katyn: Stalin's Massacre and the Triumph of Truth Over Lies" before you visit and/or watch Andrzej Wajda's superb 2009 film "Katyn".