DSH celebrates its 20th anniversary in 2026. To mark this occasion, we invite you for a new autumn exhibition: ‘MELUSINES FROM THE BLOCKS. Fashion and Music in the 1980s’ curated by Karolina Sulej.

DSH celebrates its 20th anniversary in 2026. To mark this occasion, together with The Women’s Archive, we invite you for a new autumn exhibition: ‘THE ’80s LOOK AT US’ curated by Monika Rudaś-Grodzka, Łucja Iwanczewska, and Katarzyna Stańczak-Wiślicz.

In 2026, the History Meeting House (DSH) is celebrating its 20th birthday. To mark this occasion, we would like to invite you to visit a unique exhibition of nearly 130 photographs by Elliott Erwitt, a legendary Magnum Photos photographer. This is the first such a comprehensive retrospective exhibition in Poland to present over...

Our building in Długa Street has served as a meeting place for veteran Warsaw insurgents for over 30 years. It now hosts an updated version of the version of the permanent exhibition Warsaw Rising: Yearning for Freedom. Entry to this remarkable, new exhibition is available to the public free of charge.

The war in Ukraine is an attack on a sovereign state and a conflict of a type Europeans had not experienced in many years. It is taking place on a continent perceived to be a safe and stable place to live. Our generation believed that the sort of war crimes committed in the former Yugoslavia would never take place in Europe...

In honor of the 80th anniversary of the commencement of the reconstruction of Warsaw, organized by the City of Warsaw, the History Meeting House (Dom Spotkań z Historią, DSH) has prepared an exhibition featuring photographs that captured the rise of Poland’s capital from the ruins, WARSAW REBORN. REPORTAGE PHOTOGRAPHY 1945–1949.

AN OPEN-AIR EXHIBITION PRESENTED AS PART OF THE COMMEMORATION OF THE 80TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE COMMENCEMENT OF THE RECONSTRUCTION OF WARSAW

There are 5,800 streets and squares in Warsaw, of which about twenty percent are named after specific people. More than 1,300 of these are streets named after men, and only about 158 honor women. They are often dead-ends or alleys.

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.