Kraków during the period 1939-1956 (permanent)

Closed from 1 April 2010
The permanent exhibition is presented in Silesian House at Pomorska Street. The exhibition consists of photographs, documents, pinups and propaganda posters, and miscellaneous items – items self-made by prisoners, weapons, uniforms, also items connected with Jewish ghetto in Krakow and the Holocaust.

Exposition consists of three parts: The first part reveals Nazi apparatus of terror and occupier's policy exercised on Polish citizens of Krakow and Holocaust of Krakow's Jews which took place between 1939-1943. Second shows various means of Krakow's citizens' rebellion against German occupation, their participation in creating the polish underground. The third, and smallest part of exhibition shows us the activity of independence – longing underground groups from the years after 1945, and examples of Stalin's' acts, communist repression apparatus aimed at every opposition against the newly forming totalitarian system.