“Our commitment must be to remember the victims who perished, respect the survivors still with us, and reaffirm humanity's common aspiration for mutual understanding and justice.”
-- Declaration of the Stockholm International Forum on the Holocaust
European Museum of the Year Award 2016
10.06.2016
POLIN: Museum of the History of Polish Jews, Warsaw, receives top prizes for best museum 2016.
The museum was awarded both the European Museum of the Year Award (EMYA) 2016 and the European Museum Academy Prize.
In a unique new building situated at the site of a once vibrant Jewish neighbourhood and later the site of the Warsaw Ghetto, the POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews presents 1000 years of history of Polish Jews and their contribution to the region and to Europe, from the first settlement to the present time. The long-shared history between Jewish people and other people of this region of the world is one of a continuously negotiated co-existence through conflict as well as cooperation, integration and assimilation. For very large and very diverse audiences the POLIN now serves as an absorbing place to confront and examine the perpetually relevant questions of how a co-existence, however fraught, can suddenly transfigure into an absolute rupture, into the near eradication of a whole population and destruction of a culture.
The museum opened its door to the public on 13 April, 2013.
Photo: W. Kryński / POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews