AbstractThe Polish museum landscape has turned into a battleground between politicians
and historians. Much of that has focused on the highly praised Museum of the
Second World War in Gdańsk which opened in March 2017. Its founding
director Pawel Machcewicz was dismissed when the conservative-nationalist party
“Law and Justice” came to power. The article and the interview
with Machcewicz discuss that story, the founding and exhibition design of other
Polish history museums as well as the politics of history in Poland and
beyond.