Museum Boom in Poland

For Dorota Jarecka, 2005 was the year of museums. "Of sensible and crazy museums, of private and state ones and of traditional nationalist and revolutionary-liberal ones". More and more galleries are being built in Poland, and there are plans to build yet more. The winner of the competition for the construction of the Museum of History for the Polish Jews has been chosen and the Museum for Contemporary Art has been put out to tender. Warsaw is to have a police museum, a communism museum, a museum for freedom, one dedicated to Ryszard Kuklinski, the controversial CIA agent in communist Poland, and one dedicated to the preacher against anti-Semitism Henryk Jankowski. "Museums are not just a door to history but also serve to encourage public debate. This year, museums have also been used as instruments of power: if you have a museum, you can influence people's perception of reality and history; if you have more than one, you can exert even more influence."  

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