The Exploseum ("explosines + museum"; pl, Exploseum – Centrum techniki wojennej DAG Fabrik Bromberg) is an

open-air museum An open-air museum (or open air museum) is a museum that exhibits collections of buildings and artifacts out-of-doors. It is also frequently known as a museum of buildings or a folk museum. Definition Open air is “the unconfined atmosphere� ...

of industrial architecture combined with a museum of 20th century technology in

Bydgoszcz Bydgoszcz ( , , ; german: Bromberg) is a city in northern Poland, straddling the meeting of the River Vistula with its left-bank tributary, the Brda. With a city population of 339,053 as of December 2021 and an urban agglomeration with more ...

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. It is built around the

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munitions factory DAG Fabrik Bromberg. It is an anchor point on the

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. A significant part of the 2 kilometre-long museum route are underground passages connecting the factory buildings. The exposition covers the life of the forced laborers (prisoners of war and concentration camp inmates of various nations, with the majority being Poles), including their acts of sabotage, as well as the history of the DAG and of

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, the inventor of dynamite. The largest building contains the presentation of the history of arms and explosive materials since 15th century. Eksploseum g

History

In autumn 2007, the

Regional Museum "Leon Wyczółkowski" The Leon Wyczółkowski Regional Museum (Polish: ''Muzeum Okręgowe im. Leona Wyczółkowskiego w Bydgoszczy'') is an ensemble of cultural institutions which have been first created in 1923 in the city of Bydgoszcz, Poland. Location The seat of t ...

took over under its supervision a complex of Nazi-factory buildings of DAG Fabrik Bromberg, located in the forest, in the south-east of the city. The ensemble was built during

in order to produce

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s and

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for the German war effort. It was manned by thousands of prisoners of war and forced laborers from all over Europe, under the supervision of German specialists. The most valuable part of the complex is ''NGL-Betrieb'', where the

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plant stands. The individual buildings are still preserved and connected by a near- long network of overground and underground

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s. In 2009–2011, a project was launched to revive the area, called ''

Open-air museum An open-air museum (or open air museum) is a museum that exhibits collections of buildings and artifacts out-of-doors. It is also frequently known as a museum of buildings or a folk museum. Definition Open air is “the unconfined atmosphere� ...

of industrial architecture with an underground tourist route and the Museum of

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Works

DAG Dag, or variant forms, may refer to: Arts and entertainment * ''DAG'' (American TV series), 2000–2001 * ''Dag'' (Norwegian TV series), 2010–2015 * ''DAG'' (newspaper), a former free Dutch newspaper * DAG (band), an American funk band * DA ...

Fabrik Bromberg''. The outcome of the programme was the creation of the Exploseum.

References

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