Record crowds at Warsaw Uprising Museum in 2018
PR dla Zagranicy
Grzegorz Siwicki
31.12.2018 08:00
The Warsaw Uprising Museum, which tells the story of a bloody World War II insurgency, says it attracted a record 718,000 visitors this year.
![Exhibits at the Warsaw Uprising Museum. Photo: Aszumila [Public domain], from Wikimedia Commons](http://external.polskieradio.pl/files/017fc02f-a6a2-4e9e-8a18-476c8035f2fd.file "Exhibits at the Warsaw Uprising Museum. Photo: Aszumila [Public domain], from Wikimedia Commons")
Exhibits at the Warsaw Uprising Museum. Photo: Aszumila [Public domain], from Wikimedia Commons
In the summer, architects from Poland and abroad were invited to submit ideas on how to expand the museum, which officials said was running out of space amid constantly growing attendance.
Warsaw-based architectural studio Nizio Design International has now been named as the winning design team.
The Warsaw Uprising Museum opened to the public in 2004 on the 60th anniversary of the bloody WWII revolt against the Polish capital's German occupiers.
The Warsaw Uprising began on August 1, 1944 and lasted 63 days before being put down by better equipped and more numerous German forces.
The insurgency resulted in the death of some 18,000 Polish fighters and 200,000 civilians. It was the largest military operation by any resistance movement in Europe against the continent's Nazi German occupiers during World War II.
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Source: Warsaw Uprising Museum