On the 4th and 18th of June, 1989, following the Round Table talks, Poland’s first free elections delivered a landslide victory for Solidarity in both houses of parliament. Solidarity gained 99 of 100 seats in the Senate and a majority in the Lower House (Sejm), taking 162 out of 460 seats. Although many Communist Party candidates ran unopposed, they were nevertheless defeated because the voting system allowed people to cross out their names on ballot papers. This momentous event ensured Poland’s position in the Eastern Bloc as the first country where democracy was achieved. The exhibition commemorates the beginnings of Polish political transformation as well as the 70th anniversary of Nowa Huta.