So I cut all ropes and I was surprised how nice it felt.
Grzegorz, Brasil
So I cut all ropes and I was surprised how nice it felt.
Grzegorz, Brasil
History of millions of Poles
The history of departures from the Polish territories have been taking place for hundreds of years. People were leaving to various parts of the world, both to earn a living as well as in the search of freedom and a different life. It has not changed after Poland regained independence. The journeys we were made on foot, by train, on ships, and later by planes. After joining the European Union emigration has become a generational experience of millions of young Poles. Today, almost everyone knows someone who has decided to emigrate.
The only such a place in Poland
The first Polish museum dedicated to the history of Polish emigration came into existence in Gdynia, Poland. Created on the initiative of the city authorities in the historical building of the Marine Station, where Polish liners departed for decades, the institution presents the history of departures and of lots of the Poles in the world in close connection with the present. The history of emigration is written every day. Its various dimensions are presented at a permanent exposition.
We connect stories
The mission of the Emigration Museum in Gdynia is to showcase the stories of millions of both anonymous and famous people, whose names appear in the context of the great scientific, sports, business and artistic achievements. The ambition of the institution is to familiarize Poles in the country with these achievements, and at the same time to encourage compatriots living in Poland and abroad to get to know each other. Thanks to its educational and cultural projects the museum hopes to become a place of meetings and discussions. We are obliged to this by the best of all possible addresses – 1 Polska Street.
History of millions of Poles
The history of departures from the Polish territories have been taking place for hundreds of years. People were leaving to various parts of the world, both to earn a living as well as in the search of freedom and a different life. It has not changed after Poland regained independence. The journeys we were made on foot, by train, on ships, and later by planes. After joining the European Union emigration has become a generational experience of millions of young Poles. Today, almost everyone knows someone who has decided to emigrate.
The only such a place in Poland
The first Polish museum dedicated to the history of Polish emigration came into existence in Gdynia, Poland. Created on the initiative of the city authorities in the historical building of the Marine Station, where Polish liners departed for decades, the institution presents the history of departures and of lots of the Poles in the world in close connection with the present. The history of emigration is written every day. Its various dimensions are presented at a permanent exposition.
We connect stories
The mission of the Emigration Museum in Gdynia is to showcase the stories of millions of both anonymous and famous people, whose names appear in the context of the great scientific, sports, business and artistic achievements. The ambition of the institution is to familiarize Poles in the country with these achievements, and at the same time to encourage compatriots living in Poland and abroad to get to know each other. Thanks to its educational and cultural projects the museum hopes to become a place of meetings and discussions. We are obliged to this by the best of all possible addresses – 1 Polska Street.
Emigrant’s Archive
Emigrant’s Archive is a project of Emigration Museum in Gdynia, in which we gather and present the stories of the Polish emigration. Among them there are stories of extraordinary courage but also about daily struggles with an unknown reality. Together they form a wide and colorful panorama of the Polish presence on all the continents of the world.
The Archive aims to provide space for all these emigrants’ stories. We want not only to archive and save them from oblivion but also to show them to a wide audience and share them.
In the Emigration Museum the history of Poland is understood as a history of all Poles – both those living in the home country and abroad. We want the voices of emigrants, re-emigrants and immigrants to inspire discussion and public debate about the past and modern emigration.
Our aim
The aim of people
working in the Emigrant’s Archive is to collect stories – both in a written and spoken form. We try to reach out to people who have experienced emigration in different moments of the Polish history.
Emigrant narratives are systematically archived in the form of written accounts
as well as sound and film notations. Over the years, they will form a multi-dimensional picture of the past and modern emigration.
Contact
We encourage emigrants from all over the world to write down their memories, to send photos, scans of remembrances, but also to meet with employees of the archive to record stories in audio or video versions. Oral history is a unique opportunity to reach personal experiences of witnesses of history. There are emotions that cannot be found even in the most important documents. Thanks to them we can talk about one of the most important phenomena in the Polish history through the voices of the participants themselves.
On the website you will find a form to submit your memories as well as the Emigrant’s Archive contact data. We will be happy to answer each question by e-mail or telephone.
Emigrant’s Archive
Emigrant’s Archive is a project of Emigration Museum in Gdynia, in which we gather and present the stories of the Polish emigration. Among them there are stories of extraordinary courage but also about daily struggles with an unknown reality. Together they form a wide and colorful panorama of the Polish presence on all the continents of the world.
The Archive aims to provide space for all these emigrants’ stories. We want not only to archive and save them from oblivion but also to show them to a wide audience and share them.
In the Emigration Museum the history of Poland is understood as a history of all Poles – both those living in the home country and abroad. We want the voices of emigrants, re-emigrants and immigrants to inspire discussion and public debate about the past and modern emigration.
Our aim
The aim of people
working in the Emigrant’s Archive is to collect stories – both in a written and spoken form. We try to reach out to people who have experienced emigration in different moments of the Polish history.
Emigrant narratives are systematically archived in the form of written accounts
as well as sound and film notations. Over the years, they will form a multi-dimensional picture of the past and modern emigration.
Contact
We encourage emigrants from all over the world to write down their memories, to send photos, scans of remembrances, but also to meet with employees of the archive to record stories in audio or video versions. Oral history is a unique opportunity to reach personal experiences of witnesses of history. There are emotions that cannot be found even in the most important documents. Thanks to them we can talk about one of the most important phenomena in the Polish history through the voices of the participants themselves.
On the website you will find a form to submit your memories as well as the Emigrant’s Archive contact data. We will be happy to answer each question by e-mail or telephone.
