Warsaw Rising Museum

In December 2003, the Council of Warsaw passed a resolution to establish a new cultural institution, the Warsaw Rising Museum. The Museum was established on the initiative of the President of Warsaw, Lech Kaczyński (museum opening – 2004).

For visitors with a vision impairment

The museum offers free of charge, guided or audio-guided tours accompanied by a guardian. A large part of the exhibition elements can be touched, while parts of it contain multimedia elements (you can listen to your heartbeat, how the printing press works, how the army marches, or walk through a sewage canal accompanied by a guide).

People with hearing disabilities

An induction loop has been installed in the Fearlessness Cell (a branch of the museum).

For those who are hard of hearing or deaf, the museum offers tours with a guide and accompanied by a Polish Sign Language interpreter.

The museum uses modern means of expression and media techniques: film, multimedia techniques. For example, the sounds of battle are reproduced, and the explosions of bombs, diving ‘Stukas’ and the swish of shells are also perceived by the deaf.

For visitors with a mobility impairment

The exhibition in the museum’s multi-level building is fully accessible for people in wheelchairs, with lifts and platforms leading to all exhibition floors and to adapted sanitary facilities. The entrance to the building, with its wide, threshold-free doors, is on level 0.

Non-slip systems are installed on the stairs.

All headphones at the plasma TVs are positioned so that they can be reached by a person in a wheelchair.

The Palladium cinema is also part of the museum and is accessible to people with disabilities.

The museum offers all visitors he opportunity to experience the exhibition through an accessible sense of touch, as proof that interacting with the exhibits does not have to be through the most common sense of sight alone. Experiencing contact with objects commemorating World War II can also involve other senses, including the sense of hearing. Visitors can imagine the operation of certain tools through the sound they make, which they have the chance to hear.

Learning about history can therefore be done in different ways and is just as attractive and effective (if not more so) than reading textbooks or looking at photographs.

Warsaw Rising Museum (Muzeum Powstania Warszawskiego) / Exhibition / Guided tour

Poland, Warsaw

Museum

Permanent project

Declaration of availability made on: 2021-09-09

Physical with digital elements

• Blind people
• People with visual and hearing impairments
• People with limited mobility

• Parts of the exhibition contain multimedia elements
• Induction loop
• Audio guide
• Lifts and platforms leading to all exhibition floors
• Non-slip systems

• Descendants of Warsaw insurgents
• Famous polish photographers

Some of the Warsaw Rising Museum’s projects have been made possible thanks to funding from the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage. MPW is financed from the budget of the City of Warsaw.

As part of the 3rd Warsaw Barrier-Free Culture Week, the Warsaw Rising Museum (2015) organised a screening of the film “Warsaw Uprising” with audio description (a good example for the film industry).

The Warsaw Rising Museum won the second edition of the “Warsaw without Barriers” competition organised by the city and the Association of Friends of Integration (2006) as the best adapted building in the capital for the disabled.

“People who cannot see can touch and hear many things in the museum. Such people are guided by a guide. They can also use an audio guide, which is available in thirty-two languages”.

Jan Ołdakowski, Director of the Warsaw Rising Museum