Emigration Museum

The Emigration Museum in Gdynia is a historical museum, founded in February 2012 and opened to the public on May 16, 2015. The museum documents the history of emigration of Poles, and also conducts scientific research on the contemporary dimension of emigration. The Emigration Museum also regularly hosts workshops around the themes of migration and ecology for families with children of all ages. As part of the Emigrant's Archive project, stories of people who left the country are collected and archived in the form of written accounts, audio or film recordings.

The main attraction of the Museum is a permanent exhibition occupying more than 2,500 sq. m. with a special children's path, cross-sectionally documenting the Polish migration experience over the past 200 years. The exhibition is narrative in nature, including taking visitors through the successive stages of the journey and following the fate of a family emigrating from Poland to the United States during the turbulent period of the turn of the 20th century. Part of the exhibition is also devoted to the history of Polish transatlantic shipping and the presentation of original memorabilia related to the subject of transoceanic voyages.

The Emigration Museum is housed in the historic building of the Marine Station at the French Quay in the Port of Gdynia, erected in the 1930s; the location was chosen not by accident - in the interwar period, in an organized manner, the building served as a transit facility for thousands of Poles leaving their homeland. Also after World War II until 1988, Polish transatlantic ships, including the legendary MS "Batory", sailed from the wharf near the Marine Station building.

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