On January 21, 2025, we had the honor of hosting representatives of ICOM Polska, who visited the construction site of the Warsaw Ghetto Museum. Director Joanna Dudelewicz explained the details of the project to the guests, while Masza Makarova from the Education Department guided the guests through the interior of the historic former hospital.
| photo: Robert Wilczyński
ICOM POLAND is part of the International Council of Museums (ICOM), the world's largest non-governmental international cultural organization. It has been operating in Poland since 1948. Currently, the ICOM POLAND National Committee has 370 individual museum members and 52 institutional members (museums), several of whom visited the construction site of the Warsaw Ghetto Museum. ICOM representatives represented, among others, the Zachęta – National Gallery of Art, the Museum of Modern Art, the National Museum in Warsaw, the Royal Castle in Warsaw, the POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews, and the Royal Łazienki Museum.
| photo: Robert Wilczyński
| photo: Robert Wilczyński
The project "Renovation and expansion of the historic buildings of the former Bersohn and Bauman Children's Hospital at 60 Sienna Street/51 Śliska Street in Warsaw, along with their adaptation for exhibition and educational purposes, and the construction of a Media Library – part of the permanent exhibition of the Warsaw Ghetto Museum" is made possible thanks to funding from the European Funds for Infrastructure, Climate, Environment 2021-2027 (FEniKS) program. The amount of funding from the European Regional Development Fund is PLN 57,423,828.88. The total project value is PLN 323,879,688.83.
