On June 28, 1953, the Naval Museum in Gdynia was established, collecting exhibits related to the Navy of the Republic of Poland.
Naval Museum in Gdynia, photo: Wikipedia
The first establishment of the MW Museum was an old villa located next to the beach in Gdynia, where the exhibition was located, and in the surrounding area elements of armament and ship equipment were exhibited, such as coastal artillery guns from Hel, guns recovered from the wreck of the ORP "Gryf" minelayer, a plot of land. anti-aircraft guns from ORP "Błyskawica", torpedoes, mines. Several dozen cannon barrels and naval cannons from the 18th and 19th centuries were brought from the museum depot in Gdańsk. In 1960, the museum housed the boat "Chatka Puchatkow", on which two Polish sailors crossed the Atlantic in 1958-59.
Also in 1960, the museum gained a very attractive exhibit - the destroyer ORP "Burza", distinguished in combat during World War II, moored in the port at Kościuszko Square. During its 15-year service, the ship-museum was visited by over 3.7 million people. The poor technical condition of the ship resulted in the ORP "Burza" being scrapped on May 1, 1976, and the function of the museum ship was taken over by the decommissioned ORP Błyskawica, the world's oldest preserved destroyer.
In May 1969, the facility and the exhibition were closed due to the poor technical condition of the building, after which some of the exhibits were moved to a temporary room next to the Naval Club, and the open-air exhibition of naval weapons and armament was placed on the Seaside Boulevard.
One of the most interesting exhibits is the only surviving copy of the German BT 1000 rocket-powered bomb-torpedo from World War II.
On November 28, 2012, the official opening of the new, current seat of the museum took place in a building shared with the Gdynia City Museum.
In November 2018, on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the Navy, a new multimedia permanent exhibition was opened. It is planned to build an underground part of the facility in place of the open-air exhibition of Naval Weapons and Weapons.
source - Wikipedia
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