They are learning that the Internet offers much more than just Facebook, games and YouTube and that our Museum is not a temple of glass display cabinets. The young participants of the programme “Museum. Share It!” discover the Emigration Museum’s exhibition in search of what is most interesting for them. For some it’s music, for others travel and dreaming of the big wide world. However, all of them will create individual and unique tour paths where they will soon be taking their nearest and dearest.
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On Saturday, January 17th, the elements that make up a large-scale model of this famous ocean liner MS Batory were transported to the seat of the Emigration Museum in Gdynia. Here – in the permanent exhibition space – its assembly shall soon commence, followed by additional modelling work. Due to its four-ton construction in 1:10 scale, as well as the meticulously reconstructed details based on documents acquired over many years, this is a unique undertaking in the world of museums. Over 20 people have been working on the model in the same way as they would build a real ship – the complete hull would even float on water.
The Emigration Films Festival EMiGRA will take place in Warsaw in the Orangery by the Wilanów Palace from the 24th to 26th October 2014. This year’s EMiGRa is going to be Boundless Films Festival.
The Festival is held under Link to Poland’s media patronage.
The Emigration Museum in Gdynia is the only place in Poland to retell the emigration story, which is full of emotions, written by millions of Poles, who experienced it. This place will be established on the basis on the reports of ordinary people and it will retell about the mass phenomenon whose significance cannot be overestimated.