This new exhibit at the Warsaw Museum tells the story of a pivotal 1955 festival called the World Festival of Youth and Students, which lasted from July 31 to August 15 of that year and attracted nearly 170 thousand people to Warsaw. 

Under the slogan For Peace and Friendship, the initial goal of the festival was to show the superiority of socialism over capitalism. However, it became a carnival of multiculturalism, anticipating political and social changes and, above all, a generational experience.

In addition to telling the story of the event itself, this exhibition will outline the social and cultural background of the 1950s. Archival materials and memorabilia from the festival, such as posters, postcards, scarves, pin badges or programs, photographs, socialist realist sculptures and paintings, as well as contemporary works of art will be shown.