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“Polish Maritime Activity in the 1918-1945 Period”
A New Permanent Exhibition at the Central Maritime Museum in Gdańsk
On 2 April 2007 the Central Maritime Museum in Gdańsk
opened an exhibition on “The maritime activity of the Poles in
the 1918-1945 period”, demonstrating the way in which during
the titular period the Poles built a merchant navy, a Navy and a
fishing fleet, a port and a shipyard in Gdynia, and established
suitable institutions and legislation. In merely twenty years they
eliminated more than a hundred years of backwardness caused
by the partitions.
Alongside themes presented at earlier permanent expositions
and temporary shows, the exhibition in question features
questions never broached by the museum such as the Pinsk
Flotilla, water sports in the Free City of Gdansk or the shipyard
industry in the Second Republic. It was possible to expand
the exhibition’s range thanks to the efforts of the Museum staff,
specialists in assorted fields of knowledge about the sea who by
basing themselves on most recent historical studies, created a
wide scenario.
The exposition displays 259 exhibits from the museum
resources: paintings, sculptures, photographs, documents,
models, banners and souvenirs, including many new or never
shown items. The Navy Museum in Gdynia, the Polish Army
Museum in Warsaw, the Museum of the City of Gdansk and
private persons loaned some of the exhibits. The gathered collections
illustrate the following topics: “”The struggle for independence
and access to the Baltic”, ”Sailors in the struggle for
independent Poland 1918-1920”, “The return of Pomerania to
Poland”, ”Sea academies” (Technische Hochschule in Gdańsk,
the Sea Academy in Tczew and Gdynia), ”Economic problems”
(Ports and sea navigation, The development of fishing,
The shipbuilding industry, Inland navigation), ”The propagation
of maritime issues” (The Sea and Colonial League, Maritime
museums, Literature, Music, Atlantic trips of Polish sailors,
Canoeing, Rowing, Mariusz Zaruski, Water sports in the Free
City of Gdańsk), ”The development of the Polish Navy and the
participation of Polish ensigns during the Second World War”
(The Polish Navy in the years 1920-1939, The activity of the
Polish Navy and the Polish PMH alongside the Royal Navy).
Particularly noteworthy exhibits include donations by
Barbara Woroncow (United Kingdom): the airman uniform of
her father, Aleksander Woroncow, who served in the 307 Night
Fighter Squadron the ”Lwow Eagle-owls” in Exeter, and a valuable
collection of the souvenirs of her grandfather, the social
activist and politician Jan Kwapiński, Minister of Industry, Trade
and Navigation in the governments of Władysław Sikorski and
Stanisław Mikołajczyk (1942-1947).
As the only monographic portrayal of the maritime history
of the Second Republic the presented exhibition plays an especially
significant educational role for young visitors.
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