https://muzea.waw.pl/en/museums/muzeum-zolnierzy-wykletych/exhibitions/Temporary exhibitions at the Museum of Cursed Soldiers and Political Prisoners of the Polish People's Republic on Rakowiecka Street - current shows with dates and summaries.Hugo 0.147.6enSat, 05 Sep 2026 14:08:48 +0000© 2026 muzea.waw.pl - Every museum in Warsawhttps://muzea.waw.pl/en/museums/muzeum-zolnierzy-wykletych/exhibitions/zrzeszenie-wolnosc-i-niezawislosc/Thu, 03 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0200https://muzea.waw.pl/en/museums/muzeum-zolnierzy-wykletych/exhibitions/zrzeszenie-wolnosc-i-niezawislosc/The exhibition tells the story of the Freedom and Independence Association (WiN), the largest underground organisation active in Poland after the end of the Second World War. It was founded on 2 September 1945 in Warsaw by a group of Polish Army officers, among them Jan Rzepecki, Janusz Bokszczanin, Franciszek Niepokolczycki and Jan Szczurek-Cergowski. It was meant to be a civilian organisation: its founders wanted to end armed struggle and, faced with the communisation of Poland, move their activity onto political ground.museumshttps://muzea.waw.pl/en/museums/muzeum-zolnierzy-wykletych/exhibitions/wolnosc-jest-w-nas/Thu, 03 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0200https://muzea.waw.pl/en/museums/muzeum-zolnierzy-wykletych/exhibitions/wolnosc-jest-w-nas/The exhibition was staged in Pavilion XII of the former Mokotow prison. It was here that many opposition activists were held after 13 December 1981. The pavilion and its cells have changed little since then, and the exhibition uses that authentic space to tell visitors about the crimes of martial law, the repression, and the determination of people who refused to accept the breaking of basic civil rights. The display occupies three floors of the prison pavilion. The ground floor shows how hope was born and then brutally suppressed after martial law was imposed. The first floor presents the reality of the internment camps: correspondence, personal objects and documents. The top level is devoted to the political prisoners held at Mokotow - periscopes set into the cell peepholes carry quotations from those in power at the time.museumshttps://muzea.waw.pl/en/museums/muzeum-zolnierzy-wykletych/exhibitions/wygnali-bieruta-z-trybuny-szczecinski-kwiecien-1946/Thu, 03 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0200https://muzea.waw.pl/en/museums/muzeum-zolnierzy-wykletych/exhibitions/wygnali-bieruta-z-trybuny-szczecinski-kwiecien-1946/The exhibition tells the story of the first anti-communist protest by Polish scouts. The communists intended it as a propaganda demonstration of support for the new authorities; instead it turned into a rally in support of Stanislaw Mikolajczyk. In April 1946 the communists organised a scout rally in Szczecin under the name “We Keep Watch on the Oder”. Some 50,000 people took part, including about 15,000 scouts. On 13 April 1946, on the platform of honour at the foot of the Chrobry Embankment, when Boleslaw Bierut began to speak, the young people started shouting “Mikolajczyk!”, “Down with Bierut”, “Down with the communists”. Bierut had to give up his speech and left the platform in haste.museumshttps://muzea.waw.pl/en/museums/muzeum-zolnierzy-wykletych/exhibitions/baraniak-145-przesluchan-na-rakowieckiej/Thu, 03 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0200https://muzea.waw.pl/en/museums/muzeum-zolnierzy-wykletych/exhibitions/baraniak-145-przesluchan-na-rakowieckiej/The exhibition is devoted to Archbishop Antoni Baraniak. He was tortured in the Mokotow prison, held in a dark cell and in punishment cells, deprived of sleep and starved. As a bishop and secretary to Primate Stefan Wyszynski he was subjected to inhuman interrogations aimed at extracting testimony that the head of the Polish Church had spied for the Vatican. On 30 October 1955, in Komancza, Primate Stefan Wyszynski wrote of his secretary’s imprisonment in his “Prison Notes”: “It was known at Mokotow that Bishop Baraniak was bearing up bravely and conducting himself with dignity before his interrogators. It was known that the bishop was ‘under investigation’, that the investigation was long and very gruelling, and that the bishop incriminated no one.”museumshttps://muzea.waw.pl/en/museums/muzeum-zolnierzy-wykletych/exhibitions/dowody-zbrodni/Thu, 03 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0200https://muzea.waw.pl/en/museums/muzeum-zolnierzy-wykletych/exhibitions/dowody-zbrodni/Prepared in co-operation with the Institute of National Remembrance, the exhibition “Evidence of Crime” presents objects recovered from the burial pits at “Laczka”, in Section “L” of the Powazki Military Cemetery in Warsaw. The showcases in Pavilion X hold nearly 200 objects that are at once archaeological artefacts, relics and evidence of crime. They were shown publicly for the first time in the corridors of the former prison on Rakowiecka street - the place where many of the victims found there were put to death.museumshttps://muzea.waw.pl/en/museums/muzeum-zolnierzy-wykletych/exhibitions/solidarnosc-walczaca/Thu, 03 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0200https://muzea.waw.pl/en/museums/muzeum-zolnierzy-wykletych/exhibitions/solidarnosc-walczaca/Since 22 May 2021 the Museum has shown the exhibition “Fighting Solidarity”, presenting the wide range of anti-communist opposition activity in the Polish People’s Republic and the work of Fighting Solidarity structures abroad. It is a multimedia exhibition, which makes it easier to sense the atmosphere of an underground print shop or an anti-communist demonstration, and to hear broadcasts from a radio station transmitting illegally. The exhibition is laid out in 18 prison cells of the former General Pavilion. They hold, among other things, documents belonging to Kornel Morawiecki, the leader of Fighting Solidarity, including his passport annulled by the communist authorities, and patriotic jewellery made underground by the sculptor Ludwika Ogorzelec. Also shown are underground newspapers, books, photographs, stamps and postcards published outside censorship, duplicators, matrices, screen-printing and offset equipment in a specially arranged underground print shop, devices used for intercepting communications, and an M3A1 submachine gun made illegally in Gdansk.museums