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Museum of the History of the Polish Jews
Contemporary Architecture in Poland – by Lahdelma & Mahlamäki Architects
post updated 4 Aug 2019 ; 8 Oct 2013
Museum of the History of the Polish Jews
Design: Lahdelma & Mahlamäki Architects
Location: Warsaw, Poland

Photos: Juha Salminent
Museum of the History of the Polish Jews
THE MUSEUM OF THE HISTORY OF POLISH JEWS
The origins of the Museum of the History of the Polish Jews go back to the mid-1990s, when the founding director of Tel Aviv?s Diaspora Museum and the Holocaust Museum in Washington DC, Yeshayahu Weinberg, convened an international working group to plan a new museum dedicated to the history of the Polish Jews.
Some 150 researchers from different countries in Europe, Israel and North America participated in gathering the material on the history and lives of the Jewish people. By the year 2003, the fundamental idea and preliminary exhibition plan for the museum had been completed.
In spring 2005 an international architectural competition was held for the design of the building to house the museum. The selection of the participants of the architectural competition was based on expressions of interest.

Among the architects invited to join the second stage of the competition were Studio Daniel Libeskind, Kengo Kuma & Associates, Zvi Hecker Architects, Peter Eisenman, David Chipperfield and six other groups, inclu...