While Zbyszko Siemaszko referred to himself as a documentarian, he took a decidedly creative approach to the job. He captured Warsaw in a way few of its residents ever had a chance to see it. His ability to observe and photograph gave the city a glow. In spite of our full knowledge of communist Poland’s realities,...

Photographer, architect by training, scuba diver, skier—Wojciech Plewiński is a man of many passions. When asked about his profession, he replies: “photographer.” But he claims that he became one only by accident, and that scuba diving was “probably the greatest thing in my life.”

80 years ago the world found out about Katyn. News of the Soviet massacre of Polish prisoners of war, publicized by the propaganda machine of the Third Reich – the aggressor state which began World War II – shook the wartime alliance.

After Poland’s period of post-war turmoil, reconstruction, cult of personality and mass parades came to an end, and the late 1950s political thaw-driven wave of enthusiasm and hope for something died out, came the time for stabilization – a “small stabilization”. People got busy furnishing their homes, finding something to wear, planning their free time and...

Romuald Broniarek (1931-2013) – a photographer and photojournalist who worked for the weekly Przyjaźń, a subsidiary of the Polish-Soviet Friendship Society, throughout his professional life and until the fall of communism.

The History Meeting House invites you to an exhibition of the works of an outstanding photographer Chris Niedenthal, marking fifty years of his career as a photojournalist. We will present more than 200 pictures selected by Anna Brzezińska and Katarzyna Puchalska from the author’s vast collection of hundreds of thousands of photos.

Where were the first English gardens created? When did modern urban gardening begin to develop in Warsaw? What drew the crowds to a fashionable retreat in the village of Powązki and why were 340 linden trees from the Kampinos Forest replanted there? What role did Izabela Czartoryska, Franciszek Szanior, Leon Danielewicz and Alina Scholtz play in shaping...

Czesław Olszewski (1894-1969) was one of the most outstanding Polish architectural photographers. He captured the modernisation of the Polish state in the 1930s and its reconstruction after World War II on several thousand negatives. From 17 March, the History Meeting House invites you to the exhibition of his photographs.

Photography, travel and history enthusiasts will all find something interesting in Witold Marczewski’s photographs, which will be shown at our first exhibition of this author’s works opening 31 March! With the photographs donated to the HMH by the Marczewski Family, visitors will have the opportunity to travel back in time to the beginning...

The world is on fire again, this time behind our eastern border. Suddenly, archival photographs from the siege of Warsaw in 1939 have become disturbingly reminiscent of pictures from Kharkiv in 2022.

The Only Ones. Untold Stories of Polish Female Photographers exhibition accompanies the book of the same title, published in June this year, and includes almost 150 photos taken by thirteen photographers, among them the protagonists of the book: Anna Beata Bohdziewicz, Anna Maria Brzezińska, Iwona Burdzanowska, Joanna Helander, Marzena Hmielewicz, Anna...

Photo reportage from a juvenile detention centre, visit of the healer Clive Harris, the Easter tradition of burning of Judas, a hippie convention near Jasna Góra, music festival in Jarocin, construction of the “Bogdanka” lignite mine, the life of Roma people, and many other topics. Thirty years of life of the Polish people in the Polish...