POLIN museum wins European Museum of the Year Award 2016

The Polin Museum of the History of Polish Jews in Warsaw has won the European Museum of the Year Award, organized by the European Museum Forum (EMF). The award was presented at the 2016 Award Ceremony held in San Sebastian, Spain, "The long-shared history between Jewish people and other people of this region of the world is one of a continuously negotiated co-existence through conflict as well as cooperation, integration and assimilation. For very large and very diverse audiences the POLIN now serves as an absorbing place to confront and examine the perpetually relevant questions of how a co-existence, however fraught, can suddenly transfigure into an absolute rupture, into the near eradication of a whole population and destruction of a culture," the European Museum Forum said in conferring the award. The core exhibition presenting the 1000-year long history of the presence of Jews in Poland was opened in 2014.