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New Armoured Warfare Museum to reopen in Poland

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Paweł Kononczuk 17.06.2018 08:00
The Armoured Warfare Museum in the western Polish city of Poznań is set to reopen this year with its exhibition area doubled in size.
Photo: Henryk Borawski [CC BY-SA 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0)], from Wikimedia CommonsPhoto: Henryk Borawski [CC BY-SA 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0)], from Wikimedia Commons

The reopening “is a big undertaking, doubling the exhibition surface area,” which will now be 6,000 square metres, said Sebastian Warlikowski, a spokesman for the Museum of the Polish Army in Warsaw.

Warlikowski added that modernisation work was 60 percent complete. The total cost of the expansion will be over PLN 20 million (USD 5.4 million, EUR 4.7 million).

Among the exhibits, there will be a self-propelled World War II armoured gun, the only one of its kind that has survived, a unique German World War I field cannon, and parts of a tankette which was used during one of the first World War II battles in Poland.

The exhibition was closed to visitors several years ago due to insufficient space.

(pm/pk)

Source: PAP

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