The Ministry of Culture and National Heritage (MKiDN), together with the Self-Government of the Wielkopolska Region, will build the Museum of the Wielkopolska Uprising. The investment is expected to begin later this year.

At his meeting on 16 January this year with Marek Woźniak, Marshal of the Wielkopolska Region, at the headquarters of the MKiDN, the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Culture and National Heritage, Professor Piotr Gliński, declared his readiness to cooperate and reiterated his declaration that the state budget would finance 60 % of the value of the investment, estimated at 370 million PLN.

The Ministry of Culture and National Heritage and the Wielkopolska Marshal’s Office will immediately proceed with the preparation of an agreement for the co-management of the Wielkopolska Museum of Independence, with the Wielkopolska Uprising Museum as its branch. The request in this regard was made by Marshal Woźniak during a meeting with the Minister of Culture and National Heritage. Co-management will enable the Ministry to become involved in the investment, the realisation of which will begin later this year.

The aim of building the new premises of the Wielkopolska Uprising Museum 1918-1919 will be to disseminate knowledge about the event and to commemorate its participants. The Wielkopolska Uprising will be the main narrative axis of the new facility, but the permanent exhibition, in addition to the history of the uprising itself, will present the earlier experiences of the people of Wielkopolska as well as later events that can be regarded as consequences of the Wielkopolska Uprising.

The Wielkopolska Uprising broke out on 27 December 1918 in Poznań. The insurgents’ victories were confirmed by the Truce of Trier, signed by Germany and the Entente states on 16 February 1919. Their final victory was sealed by the Treaty of Versailles, signed on 28 June 1919, as a result of which almost all of Wielkopolska region was returned to Poland.

Adrian Andrzejewski