Photo by Sylwia Szumielewicz - Tobiasz - Gdynia

Renovation of Maritime Station Building startedMARBUD construction company has just started renovating the building of Maritime Station and Transit Warehouse.It will be converted into a Museum of Emigration.Historical photo of the Maritime Station/ Press Releases Museum of GdyniaThe historic building with a space of over6,000 square metres (2,500 of MartimeStation and 3,600 of Transit Warehouse)will regain its original, pre-war appearancein summer 2014, and Gdynia’s waterfrontcan boast an icon of Modernistarchitecture.The Museum of Emigration will open inlate 2014 or early 2015. The building waserected in 1933. Apart from handlingpassengers, it served as a centre of thewhole emigration infrastructure thatexisted in and around Gdynia. On April24, 1990, it was classified as a historicbuilding.All the works are performed in line with the conservator’s guidelines and design documentation made by ae fusionstudio company from Cracow.The investor is Gdynia Municipality. The total cost of the Museum of Emigration project amounts to PLN 49.3 million,including the co-financing from the EU initiative JESSICA.Visualisation of Museum of Emigration