News - Archive - National Maritime Museum in Gdańsk

Longer opening hours of Żuraw

Category: News

Published: 25.09.2008

Between 1st October and 30th November 2008 Żuraw (the Crane) is open every Wednesday until 7 p.m. Welcome!

In 2003 British archaeologists made an exciting discovery in Kuwait, when they came across a clay boat model dating back to 7000 years ago. This oldest evidence of sailing in the Mesopotamia region proves how old the tradition of making boat models in Asia is.

The Maritime Culture Centre - a new branch of the Polish Maritime Museum

Category: News

Published: 23.09.2008

Soon construction work will begin on a modern museum facility – the Maritime Culture Centre. It will be the next branch of the Polish Maritime Museum. The new building will be built where at present the Colonial Warehouse is located, next to the Crane.

Colonial Warehouse lost to history

Category: News

Published: 17.09.2008

The Colonial Warehouse has now been closed to visitors. It used to be one of the premises of the Polish Maritime Museum, located by the already renovated Crane. Soon the demolition work will begin on the former heating plant which in the 1970s was adapted for the museum.

General Carleton Shipwreck, 1785

Category: News

Published: 07.07.2008

On 27 September 1785 a strong storm sank a British sailboat carrying iron near Dębki, a fishing village. A message about the sunken ship survived in the local fishermen’s stories. The memories revived whenever yet another net was destroyed by something lying on the sea bottom.

Deluge, flood

Category: News

Published: 02.07.2008

How to control water? Are we threatened by flooding? How to protect ourselves against flooding? Those are the questions addressed by our new exhibition which opened on 30 June in the Spichlerze Hall on Ołowianka Island.

Maritime Culture Centre

Category: News

Published: 19.06.2008

Redevelopment and expansion of the cultural infrastructure of the Polish Maritime Museum for the purposes of the Maritime Culture Centre.

Maritime School in Tczew 1920-1930

Category: News

Published: 30.05.2008

We wish to invite you to our new exhibition entitled Maritime School in Tczew 1920-1930. The Cradle of the Polish Merchant Navy, developed together with the Tradition Hall of the Gdynia Maritime University.

Women Painting the Sea

Category: News

Published: 28.05.2008

"Women Painting the Sea" is a continuation of a series presenting maritime and river landscape paintings from the Polish museums’ collections. This year’s exhibition attempts to introduce to the wider public works of Polish women artists from the 19th and 20th centuries.

Wild Nature

Category: News

Published: 29.04.2008

From 30th April you can see phenomenal wild nature photographs in the Polish Maritime Museum. The international showcase is made up of pictures which won the Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2007 award organised by the BBC Wildlife Magazine and Natural History Museum in London.

Project Lagomar completed

Category: News

Published: 08.04.2008

At the end of the year 2007 The Polish Maritime Museum in Gdańsk has finished an international project financed by European fund UE INTERREG III B. Project LAGOMAR - Natural and cultural heritage in the southern Baltic Sea - challenges and perspectives for regional development.

Exhibition: Michał Leszczyński-Lester

Category: News

Published: 26.02.2008

Michał Antoni Leszczyński, better known in the Atlantic region as Michael Lester, had a life as colourful and full of contrasts as his pictures, filled with vivid tropical colours and unbelievable sunshine. He was a patriot in exile, an artist and a sailor. His hands were skilful at mending the rough canvas in his sailboat and equally skilful at painting on canvas.