How to make objects tell the story? One way is to give them space and see what they do in particular constellations with others. This was the way the Wałcz Land Museum’s temporary exhibition on the first postwar period of the town was created. Karolina took part in preparing the exhibition, including the preparation of the descriptions and learning how to arrange objects.
The exhibition, put in a formerly German building of a public school due to the ongoing renovation of the museum, was collecting objects about different groups of the new settlers. Starting with the postwar propaganda poster and stockpiles of the items of luggage, it led to a space divided between the objects brought by people who came from the Eastern Borderlands, Siberia, and Central Poland. A separate place was devoted to people resettled during the operation Vistula, i.e. the inner resettlement in Poland in 1947. In one corner of the room, the objects belonging to soldiers were devoted: those who fought within the 1st Polish Army and came to Pomerania from the east, and those who fought in the West and were able to come to town searching for their families only later. Objects commemorating the fate of those who spent the war in concentration camps were also presented.
In summary, the exhibition tells the story of how German Deutsch Krone changed into Polish Wałcz in the 1940s. It furnishes the base for the incoming permanent exhibition, prepared by the Museum team. Karolina is also taking part in it. We hope to invite you to this exhibition soon enough!
