First museum of queer history opens in Poland
Opening of the LGBT museum. Photo: DM
The QueerMuzeum has opened in Warsaw, marking Poland's first and the world's fifth museum dedicated to the history of the LGBTQ+ community. The museum houses approximately 150 artifacts, including press clippings from the 1960s, photographs from the 1940s, magazines from the 1980s, brochures, flyers, banners, and much more.
The museum was founded by Lambda, a Polish nonprofit rights organization that has also worked extensively in recent years with queer refugees arriving into the country.
“We are opening the first queer museum in the world in a country where the legal situation for queer people is the worst in the whole of the EU,” said Miłosz Przepiórkowski, Lamdba’s president, in a statement at the museum’s opening.
The museum's collection illustrates the history of Poland's LGBTQ+ community from the 16th century to the present day, according to ArtNews. It features nearly 150 artifacts, including letters, photographs, and early activist materials, chronicling LGBTQ history in Poland as far back as the 16th century.
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