Tours of the exhibition. No need to leave home

fot. M. Starowieyska, D. Golik/Muzeum Historii Żydów Polskich POLIN

To bring some joy in these difficult times, POLIN Museum has prepared a special series of tours of the core exhibition galleries which you can watch online on our website, on the Museum profile on social media Facebook and YouTube.

Our guides - Anita Borkowska, Katarzyna Jankowska, Dagmara Mańka-Wizor, Renata Płotczyk and Mariusz Jastrząb - will take you for a journey through the history of the Polish Jews spanning no less than one thousand years.

Along the way, you’ll meet kings, inventors, thinkers, and industrialists. You’ll learn about the Jewish holidays, customs, religion and culture. You’ll hear stories of love, friendship, sacrifice and struggle, of the life as presented the chronicles and newspapers, and the life on the Jewish street.

In the first episode of the "Tours of the exhibition. No need to leave home" series, we will explore the First Encounters gallery. Your guide, Dr. Mariusz Jastrząb, will talk about the beginnings of Polish-Jewish relations, as well as about how the first Jews settled in Poland and what role they played in old Poland’s economy. You will learn, among other things, what Jews were allowed to do, what professions were closed to them, and what tasks were entrusted to them by princes and kings.

Listing of episodes from "Tours of the exhibition. No need to leave home"