The History Meeting House (Dom Spotkań z Historią, or DSH) is a municipal cultural institution of Warsaw. Our mission is to teach people of all ages about modern history through unique exhibitions, debates, meetings, film screenings, educational workshops, seminars and conferences, as well as artistic events of all kinds.

In addition to all these activities, we also publish original books, albums and maps, and produce plays and documentaries. Our Oral History Archive is home to Poland’s largest collection of biographical recordings. DSH also publishes the popular Polish cultural magazine “Dwutygodnik” and has its own channel on YouTube called “PASTa TV DSH.”

Every year, we organize the Heroine Festival and the Warsaw celebrations of the anniversary of the June 4, 1989 elections, the first partially free elections in the Eastern Bloc, “We Chose Freedom.”

DSH is also the co-organizer of the Kazimierz Moczarski Historical Award and vendor of the Warsaw Historical Book Fund. Together with the University of Warsaw Digital Competence Center and the Institute of Literary Research of the Polish Academy of Sciences, we run postgraduate studies at the School of Historical Film Documentation.