On February 1, 2022, located in the Palace of Culture and Science in Warsaw, the National Museum of Technology was reopened to visitors after nearly five years. After the break, the facility was enhanced with two new permanent exhibitions: “The history of transport – by sea, land and air” and “The history of computers – It Counts!”.

Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Culture and National Heritage Piotr Gliński recalled that the premises of the Museum of Technology had undergone renovation. He also revealed plans for the development of the museum.

The new building of the National Museum of Technology will be located on the northern plot of the PGE National Stadium, which is already owned by the Ministry of Culture. Deputy Prime Minister Gliński is planning to build a Natural History Museum nearby.

Mirosław Zientarzewski, the director of the National Museum of Technology, announced that the museum’s collection has over 15,000. exhibits.

The new permanent exhibitions of the National Museum of Technology are “The History of Transport – by Sea, Land and Air” and “The History of Computers – It Counts!”. The first consists of three independent parts presenting the history of the land, water and air transport. The main and the largest part of the exhibition is entirely devoted to land transport. It presents the development of road construction from Roman times to the present day, as well as the vehicles of all times. The exhibition will include models and actual historical horse carriages, steam locomotives, bicycles, trams and cars. The history of water and air transport was presented in a similar way.

“Computer history – it counts!” presents simple basic calculating tools like abacus, first calculators, but also carousel memory for computers, transistors or analog analytical machines. In the interactive zone, visitors can participate in educational activities, and in the entertainment zone, they can see the most famous computer games of the early 1980s.

Adrian Andrzejewski