Permanent exhibition
The Birth of Solidarność
Our most treasured exhibit, the BOARDS WITH THE 21 DEMANDS, is included in UNESCO’s international Memory of the World Register, which contains the most valuable documents of global significance
The Power of The Powerless
In December 1970, 45 people were shot dead by the police on the Polish Coast. The events went down in history in The Ballad of Janek Wiśniewski and the image of workers carrying their murdered colleague on a door, as if it were a catafalque, along the streets of Gdynia
Solidarność and Hope
Ten million Poles joined the Solidarność Independent Self-Governing Trade Union when, under the August 1980 Agreements, this only free mass social organisation in the Communist Block was established
At War with Society
Mass arrests, brutally crushed strikes and demonstrations, and the delegalisation of the Solidarność Trade Union: martial law was introduced in Poland on 13 December 1981
The Triumph of Freedom
The bloodless revolution in Poland led to the fall of the Berlin Wall and to the collapse of dictatorships in one Central and Eastern European country after another
The Culture Of Peaceful Change
The ideas of Solidarność and the non-violent struggle for human rights in the name of freedom have been spread all over the world in all epochs by people of various nationality, race, or creed
THE SHIPYARD exhibition
THE SHIPYARD Man. Industry. City
The first comprehensive exhibition on the history of the state-owned shipbuilding industry in Gdańsk, more than 150 years of the city’s history.
