The Museum of Warsaw has started collecting amateur photographs of the Polish capital from the 1990s. In cooperation with the Masław Association and the initiative “Here it was, here it stood”, the facility wants to create a unique exhibition devoted to the history of Warsaw in the last decade of the last century. To achieve this, the museum appeals to residents to provide it with archival photographs for the collection.

The aim of the action is to present selected objects: photos, albums, postcards or slides at the exhibition about Warsaw and the photography of the last decade of the 20th century.

The exhibition is scheduled to open in October 2022 to show viewers what happened in photography and in Warsaw in the 1990s. In addition to the professional photographers, the organizers will show amateur photography its transformation in time.

The museum intends to collect all the photos of the city taken by the residents and the people just passing through in Warsaw, shot by children, adolescents and adults, appeals the Museum of Warsaw.

The new facility will collect views of streets, squares, shop windows, housing estates; downtown districts and outskirts of the city: it is interested in both Cricoland and the Europa Fair, demonstrations and demolition of monuments as well as occasional family portraits in the open air or amateur wedding sessions.

The organizers are particularly interested in the photographs with the cardboard figure of Lech Wałęsa that stood in the Old Town Square in Warsaw in the early 1990s.

Photos will be collected until March 10, 2022.

Adrian Andrzejewski