Sybirak Collection

Sybirak Collection exists in the Museum since 1994 and the aim is to collect documents referring to the exile of Poles in the Stalin times. The 1500 items in the exhibition comes from gifts from people who managed to return from the "nonhuman" land. The exhibition shows material evidence of forced stays in the East in 1940-1956. These are objects used in prison, camps and in the so called free settlement, archives, photographs, artistic works and objects of Stalin oppression. Valuable are unique products manufactured by the oppressed who wanted to live like a "standard Pole" despite of the degrading reality. Very interesting documentation is the one concerning inhabitants of the so called Marchlewszczyzny, who were deported to Kazakhstan in the 30ies o the 20th century - paintings by Feliks Mostowicz. An artist who was born in the area of Kokczetaw and now lives in Warsaw gave 88 works to the Museum. The paintings show people, conversation piece and landscapes of Kazakhstan.


Diary of Regina Dubiniec led in the book "Leninskij sbornik", Olgówka, Kazakhstan, 1943 - 1946




Eagle in Crown - miniature embroidered by aria Rogowska, Norylsk, 1945 - 1954




Mother of God Kozielska made according to a project of Tadeusz Zieliński, given by Wojciech Ziembiński, bronze, mould.




Feliks Mostowicz: artist in Kazakhstan, Kazakhstan 1991-1996 Watercolour




Feloks Mostowicz, New Motherland, Kazakhstan 1992, oil linen