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The Warsaw Ghetto Museum


The Warsaw Ghetto Museum is a historical museum in Warsaw now under formation; its opening is planned for 2023, the 80th anniversary commemoration of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. The museum will be located in the buildings of the former Bersohn and Bauman Children's Hospital in Warsaw at 51 Śliska Street and 60 Sienna Street.

History
The decision on the establishment of the Warsaw Ghetto Museum was adopted in November 2017 by Piotr Gliński, deputy prime minister of Council of Ministers and the Minister of Culture and National Heritage. The museum organisation was registered on 28 February 2018. A press conference held on 7 March 2018 at the Chancery of the Council of Ministers was devoted to the establishment of the new institution, with the Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki and the Minister of Culture and National Heritage Piotr Gliński in attendance[1].

Polish-Jewish historian Albert Stankowski is the museum’s director.

The Warsaw Ghetto Museum’s mission includes “the dissemination of knowledge about the history of the Warsaw ghetto being a crucial part of the history of The Holocaust as planned and executed by the German Third Reich”.

Goals
The statutory activities of the Museum include:
 * establishing the research base for the development and dissemination of knowledge on the Warsaw Ghetto history through collection, preservation and scholarly editing of material and non-material testimonies;
 * creation of exhibition space and a research institution for the purpose of inspiring reflection on the Warsaw ghetto history;
 * integration of the activities undertaken with the aim of protecting and conservation of cultural heritage of the Jews imprisoned in the Warsaw ghetto;
 * undertaking initiatives as regards renovation and regeneration of the historical monuments of the Warsaw ghetto;
 * conducting cultural, research, educational and promotional activities related to the history of the Warsaw ghetto;
 * initiation of social initiatives and lending support to them, and to non-governmental organisations contributing to the protection and commemoration of the history of the Warsaw ghetto;
 * perpetuating the memory of the founders of the historic Bersohn and Bauman Children’s Hospital and of Warsaw’s nineteenth century and early twentieth century Jewish community.