Museum of the History of the Polish Jews

The Museum of History of Polish Jews (Polish: Muzeum Historii Żydów Polskich) is a new museum under construction on the site of the Warsaw ghetto. The cornerstone was laid in 2007 and the museum is scheduled to open in 2012.^[1] The museum will feature multimedia exhibits on vibrant Jewish community that flourished in Poland for a thousand years.^[2] The building, a modern structure in glass and limestone, was designed by Finnish architects Rainer Mahlamäki and Ilmari Lahdelma.^[3]

The museum's academic consultants are Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett from the New York University, Hanna Zaremska from the Institute of History of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Marcin Wodziński from University of Wrocław, Samuel Kassow of Trinity College, Barbara Engelking-Boni from Polish Center of the Holocaust in the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Jacek Leociak from the Polish Academy of Sciences, Anna Michałowska-Mycielska from the Institute of History of the Warsaw University, Igor Kąkolewski from the University of Warmia and Mazury, Helena Datner from the Jewish Historical Institute, and Stanisław Krajewski of Warsaw University.^[4]

The North American Council of the Museum of the History of Polish Jews[2] is a U.S. based non-profit organization supporting the creation of the Museum.

On June 17th 2009 the museum launched a bilingual Polish-English website called the Museum of the History of Polish Jews "Virtual Shtetl", listing 1,240 towns with maps, statistics and picture galleries.^[5] The new portal intends to collect and provide essential information about Jewish life in Poland prior to Second World War and the Holocaust in Poland.

See also

• History of the Polish Jews
• The Holocaust
• The North American Council of the Museum of the History of Polish Jews

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