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Museum of World War II in Gdańsk

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Museum of World War II in Gdańsk
Museum of World War II in Gdańsk. Photo via Wikimedia Commons.

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The Museum of the Second World War (Polish: Muzeum II Wojny Światowej) is a state cultural institution and museum established in 2008 in Gdańsk, Poland, which is devoted to the Second World War. Its exhibits opened in 2017. The museum is supervised by the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage.

In 2009 the NV Tempora S.A. won the competition for the design of the exhibition which was commissioned in 2015 to Warsaw-based Qumak S.A. company. In 2010 the Kwadrat architectural team won an architectural competition for the building of the Museum of the Second World War and construction began in 2012.

Adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)。Photography via Wikimedia Commons.

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