Sun, 23.06.2024
11:00
Meeting
Muzeum Warszawy
free admission

Celebration of World Refugee Day

‘Let’s build a longer table, not a higher wall’

The Museum of Warsaw, the Polish Migration Forum and UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency wish to invite you to celebrate the World Refugee Day and take part in the ‘Let’s build a longer table, not a higher wall’ event.

This year, we want to give the floor to refugees who will conduct a series of tours around the permanent exhibition at the Warsaw Museum. June 20th is a perfect day to talk, listen and get to know each other at the Common Table in the Old Town Square and to support those who had to leave their home countries because of wars and persecution.

PROGRAMME OF THE CELEBRATIONS

• 11:00–13:00, Breakfast with Columbian music. It’s a part of a series Breakfats with new-Warsaw song, organised with Polish Migration Forum.
  Common Table at the Old Town Square in front of the Museum premises
• 13:00–14:30, a guided tour
  Museum of Warsaw, point of meeting: cash desk at 42 Rynek Starego
  Free tickets

Warsaw caught my eye – a guided tour by people with refugee and migration experience, will inaugurate a new project of the Museum of Warsaw and the Polish Migration Forum. They take you to their personal guided tour through the main exposition, presenting selected objects from their perspective and referring to their experiences and cultures.

Free guided tours on permanent exhibition in different languages:

• 14:00–15:00, Guided tour on permanent exhibition in English
  please sign up for a free ticket
• 14:00–15:00, Guided tour on permanent exhibition in Spanish
  please sign up for a free ticket
• 14:30–15:30, Guided tour on permanent exhibition in Russian
  please sign up for a free ticket
• 15:00–16:00, Guided tour on permanent exhibition in Ukrainian
  please sign up for a free ticket

A refugee, an expat, a newcomer, a displaced person, a fugitive, an immigrant…
Each of these words contains a prefix that almost defines the entire concept.
And how often they define an entire identity of a person? In these concepts
these have no causes, as if bombs, hunger, or physical threats were unimportant.
The hope, the will to live, the vision of a better future for little children seem irrelevant.
All that matters is movement, relocation, change of location.

The quote comes from Refugee Diaries published by “Kontakt” magazine.

The programme of the World Refugee Day is a part of other activities undertaken by the Warsaw Museum to give a voice to people with migrant experience, such as The Academy of Miagrant Arts, networking meetings for migrant artists, or Let’s meet in Warsaw – a programme run in 2022-2023, which supported Ukrainian refugees.

Come along and create a multicultural community with us!