The Emigration Museum (in Polish: Muzeum Emigracji) is a museum located in the city of
Gdynia
Gdynia is a city in northern Poland and a seaport on the Baltic Sea coast. With an estimated population of 257,000, it is the List of cities in Poland, 12th-largest city in Poland and the second-largest in the Pomeranian Voivodeship after Gdańsk ...
, Poland. Opened to the public on 16 May 2015, it showcases 200 years of Polish
emigration
Emigration is the act of leaving a resident country or place of residence with the intent to settle elsewhere (to permanently leave a country). Conversely, immigration describes the movement of people into one country from another (to permanentl ...
s, from the 19th century to modern days. It is located in the former Maritime Station, which from the 1930s until 1979 was a transit building from which thousands of Polish emigrants left for their new homelands. The building was refurbished in mid-2014 at a cost of
PLN 49.3 million.
In 2018 the Museum received the Živa Award of the Best Slavic Museum by the
Forum Slavic Cultures.
Živa 2018 Award for the Emigration Museum in Gdynia
, on the official website of the Emigration Museum
References
External links
Official website
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Museums in Gdynia
Museums established in 2015
2015 establishments in Poland
Museums of human migration
Polish diaspora
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