04.09.2015


On 4 September, an open air thematic exhibition was opened in the central street of Polish Gdansk city, under the title “Armenian Genocide in world press”.

The exhibition materials was provided by Armenian Genocide Museum-Institute under the auspices of Armenian Embassy in Poland and organized by Gdansk city hall, Gdansk History Museum, Polish-Armenian Fund and Armenian community in Gdansk.

The official opening ceremony was attended by RA Ambassador to Poland Edgar Ghazaryan, Mayor of Gdansk Pavel Adamovich, Director of Gdansk History Museum Adam Koperkievich, representatives of Polish-Armenian Fund, Gdansk city hall, Armenian community in Gdansk, and other guests.

During the ceremony speeches were delivered by Mayor of Gdansk Pavel Adamovich and RA Ambassador to Poland Edgar Ghazaryan. In his speech RA ambassador expressed his thanks to the Mayor of Gdansk and to the other organizers mentioning, that during 2015 this was the second event dedicated to the 100th anniversary of Armenian Genocide organized by the support of Mayor of Gdansk. After the speeches the guests got acquainted with the temporary exhibition.

The exhibition will be open until September 26, 2015. It is expected, that about 50.000 people would watch the exhibition. The same exhibition was also displayed in April 2015 in the center of Warsaw.