Gdynia Emigration Museum

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Sea station in Gdynia

The Gdynia Emigration Museum ( Muzeum Emigracji w Gdyni ) in Gdynia ( German Gdynia ) was opened in 2015 in the historic sea station.

Model of the Polish transatlantic ship Batory

Gdynia was Poland's window to the world during the Second Republic and it was the center for emigration by sea in the 1930s. In total, more than 20 million people with Polish roots live abroad today. Through this backdrop, the harbor station in Gdynia offered for so far the only migration Museum of Poland as an exhibition.

The museum presents the history of Polish emigration from the Great Emigration after the November uprising of 1830/31 to labor migration during the industrial revolution and the fate of Poles during the Second World War with expulsion, flight and forced labor, as well as contemporary emigration. The Polish diaspora in Brazil and the United States at the beginning of the 20th century is also described.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Emigration Museum - Idea . Retrieved November 7, 2019.
  2. ^ History in a Suitcase: Emigration Museum in Gdynia . Cultur.pl April 30, 2015, accessed November 7, 2019.

Coordinates: 54 ° 31 '59 "  N , 18 ° 32' 52"  O