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...

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...

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.

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...