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Ministry of Culture and National Heritage inviting Poles to the celebrations of the anniversary of the January Uprising

by Dignity News
The Ministry of Culture and National Heritage is inviting the public to the celebrations of the 160th anniversary of the January Uprising. The series of anniversary events will be inaugurated with a musical performance on 22 January at the National Theatre in Warsaw, prepared by the “Niepodległa” Office in cooperation with the Polish History Museum.

“All Poles are invited to participate in the celebrations of the 160th anniversary of the January Uprising. The celebrations will be respectable and interesting from a cognitive and scientific point of view. We are planning several scientific conferences, publications, reconstructions, concerts and exhibitions”, said Minister of Culture and National Heritage Piotr Gliński during the conference announcing the celebrations.

Exhibitions will be prepared by the National Museums in Przemyśl, Białystok, Lublin and the Ossolineum in Wrocław. The Royal Castle in Warsaw will host the exhibition ‘Love and Duty. The January Uprising of 1863″.

Polish diplomatic missions around the world will host the exhibition “Fight for Freedom. January Uprising 1863-1863’, prepared by the Polish History Museum for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The exhibition synthetically describes the origins, course and consequences of the Uprising and the reactions of Europe to the Polish insurrection. The exhibition will be available for Polish diplomatic missions to download and, after translation, will be presented at convenient places and times.

A proposal for students and teachers will include an educational package containing lesson plans, extracts from sources, colouring books and quizzes. The materials will be presented at meetings with teachers and will also be uploaded to www.powstanie1863-64.pl, which will feature historical articles, profiles of the heroes of the uprising, as well as interviews, podcasts and audio books.

Conferences and debates on the uprising, its significance and heritage are also planned. Organisers include the De Republica Institute, the Museum of Polish History, Jagiellonian University and Polish Television.

Arkadiusz Słomczyński

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