Museum of the Poznań Uprising - June 1956
A museum journey to the time of the first mass protest of workers against the communist regime in Poland.
The Museum offers exhibitions informing visitors about the history of the Poznań protests of 1956 as well as providing a general overview of events between 1945 and the end of the Polish People’s Republic. Here, you can find out about the worker’s strike of 28th June 1956, the first social uprising in the Polish People’s Republic, which was not only significant on the local scale, but also for the country as a whole. The Poznań protests of 1956 started the Polish nation’s journey to political changes and to overthrowing communism.
The Museum’s permanent exhibition tells the story of the events of 28th June 1956; it describes the causes of the strike and the sequence of events. The exhibition features, among others, reproductions of photographs from 1956, items commemorating the victims of the 1956 strike, models of the monument in honour of the Poznań protests of 1956 as well as multimedia materials. The exhibit also depicts the society’s fight for preserving the memory of the events of 1956.
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