Friday 1 August 2014

Warsaw Uprising Museum: The Photograph Exhibition Outside


This weekend marks the 70th anniversary of the Warsaw Uprising, and, last week, I finally got round to visiting the Warsaw Uprising Museum (above).

Most of all, I was impressed with the exhibition of pictures (made into coloured form from the original black and white) outside the main museum building:


The statue above caught my eye as it seems to be one of the few things to have survived the German bombardment.

The picture below appears to highlight the role of women in the Uprising:


For me, the next three pictures symbolise the endurance of love (and friendship) despite the full-on horror of war:




The picture below highlights the role of (often small) children in the Uprising:


Interspersed amongst the pictures, there are also several murals such as the one below which seems to represent the Child Soldier motif that I've seen many times around Warsaw:
 

Finally, the mural below returns to highlighting the role of women in the Warsaw Uprising:


Thus, if you visit the Warsaw Uprising Museum, I strongly recommend that you don't just look inside the museum building, but go outside and find this exhibition of pictures.

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