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We have received information that on November 27^th this year, the Secretary of State in the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage, Jarosław Sellin, representing the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Culture, National Heritage and Sport Piotr Gliński, signed an annex to the Agreement of 28 December 2017 on running - as a joint cultural institution - the Central Museum of Prisoners-of-War. On the part of the Local Government, the document was signed by Andrzej Buła, Marshal of Opole Voivodeship, and Zbigniew Kubalańca, Deputy Marshal of Opole Voivodeship.

The annex prolongates the date of the agreement on the Museum's co-management until December 31, 2025, by the Minister and the Local Government. The document also stipulates the minimum amount of the subsidy that each of the parties undertakes to provide to the institution.

This is another very important step towards the development of our Museum. The three years that have passed since the conclusion of the agreement confirm the rightness of the decisions taken then. The Central Museum Prisoners-of-War regained stability and, with numerous  success, fulfils its statutory tasks. Among those are: collecting, storing, conservation, scientific research and making available materials related with prisoners-of-war, particularly the Polish ones from 1939-1945 in the Wehrmacht and the NKVD POW systems alike, and popularisation of  POWs’ fate as well as the  history of the Site of National Remembrance in Łambinowice.

The published photo was taken at the moment when the agreement was signed, December 28, 2017. By Danuta Matloch/MKiDN