Construction of the Museum of Cursed Soldiers may cost nearly PLN 700 mln
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Not PLN 300 million, as it was said in the spring, but nearly PLN 700 million, is needed to rebuild the former prison on Rakowiecka Street into the Museum of Cursed Soldiers and Political Prisoners of the People's Republic of Poland. The law on this matter is pushed through the Sejm at an express pace. It is supposed to be the only museum that will not be subordinate to the Ministry of Culture, but to the Institute of National Remembrance (IPN). On Tuesday, the Sejm discussed the amendment to the Act on the IPN, according to which this institution is to take over the museum in the former custody and conduct its construction according to the competition design.
"We are at a crucial moment, everything has been completed before the tender, there is documentation, there are several thousand exhibits, the financing must be determined. The costs are known, because the documentation, unlike the Saski Palace, is here," Sebastian Kaleta, Warsaw MP of Solidarna Polska, deputy minister justice, said.
His calculations show that in the years 2022-2027 the construction will cost PLN 682 million.
A fierce debate is expected as the biographies of some so-called cursed soldiers raise doubts of historians. They claim that some of these soldiers committed crimes against the civilian population.
