| The Permanent Exhibition: From Concept to Completion
The Museum’s permanent exhibition, scheduled for completion between 2023 and 2027, will be housed in a unique setting that brings together the historic fabric of the former hospital and newly constructed underground levels. Conceived as a sequence of nine thematic galleries, the exhibition will explore the history of the Warsaw Ghetto through a narrative that is both chronological and thematic. Creating a space of this complexity requires highly specialized infrastructure, including advanced multimedia systems and integrated security and protection systems designed to meet the highest standards for safeguarding the collections on display.
At the heart of the exhibition’s historical narrative will be authentic objects, documents, and testimonies from the period. The Museum is actively building its collection with the permanent exhibition in mind, acquiring important artifacts both from private owners and through the antiquarian market, including Judaica, works of art, and rare archival materials. It is also developing original multimedia content for the exhibition. At the same time, to present this history from multiple perspectives, the Museum is working closely with leading cultural institutions in Poland and internationally to secure loans of significant objects that will further enrich the exhibition and its narrative.
Gallery 1 | Jewish Warsaw
Gallery 2 | War and Occupation
Gallery 3 | Ghettoization
Gallery 4 | Life Behind the Wall
Gallery 5 | A Divided City
Gallery 6 | Grossaktion Warschau 1942
Gallery 7 | Ghost Town
Gallery 8 | Rebel City
Gallery 9 | Never again
| Collection
Since 2018, the Warsaw Ghetto Museum has been building a collection of objects that bear witness to Jewish life, memory, and the experience of the Holocaust. Today, the collection comprises approximately 25 objects acquired through purchases, loans, and donations.
The collection includes a significant body of interwar and postwar art, among it works reflecting on the experience of the Holocaust—deeply personal expressions of memory and history. It also encompasses objects uncovered during archaeological research in the area of the former Warsaw Ghetto, including artifacts recovered at Miła 18, near the Anielewicz Mound—a place of profound significance in the history of Warsaw and its Jewish community.
The Museum’s holdings also include thousands of previously unpublished photographs taken in wartime Warsaw, the Warsaw Ghetto, and other ghettos in territories occupied by Nazi Germany. These photographs and other surviving objects are often the only remaining traces of individual lives, while also bearing witness to the tragedy and brutality of the German occupation. The collection not only preserves the past but also helps us understand it and reflect on its meaning for the present and the future.
We invite you to contribute to the growth of this important collection. We are seeking objects related to Jewish history, everyday life, culture, and religion, including documents, photographs, family keepsakes, works of art, printed materials, and archival records. Each can become part of a broader history—one made up of people, lives, places, and experiences that must never be forgotten.
You can help expand the Museum’s holdings by donating or lending objects of historical significance, or by offering them for purchase. We encourage you to contact our Collections Team.
Please arrange your visit to the Warsaw Ghetto Museum’s temporary offices at 39 Zielna Street in advance by calling +48 22 419 92 50 (Monday–Friday, 9:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m.) or by emailing zbiory@1943.pl
| Archives
We invite you to visit exhibitions that present the reality of the Warsaw Ghetto.
On May 8th at 18:00 p.m. we invite you to the Faculty of Architecture of the Warsaw University of Technology at 55 Koszykowa Street for the debate "Recalling Memory:
We invite you to the exhibition "Items from the Underground City. Architectural Visions Around the Commemoration of Miła 18" at the Faculty of Architecture, Warsaw University of Technology,
Only until August 28 you can see the exhibition "Synagogue in Grodzisk" at the Mediateka center in Grodzisk Mazowiecki as part of the 4th edition of the local
Until July 23, the exhibition "Enchanting the World" can be seen at the Zachęta Gallery in Warsaw, which also features a work from the MGW collection.
We invite you to watch the interview with Aviva Blum-Wachs – Israeli painter, co-author of the exhibition "And Yet Life", prepared jointly
| "Miła" 18
The Miła 18 archaeological site, located in Warsaw’s Muranów district, is one of the most important sites for research into the history of the Warsaw Ghetto and the 1943 Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.
