Army Museum in Bialystok - The opening of the temporary exhibition “42nd Infantry Regiment and 10th Lithuanian Lancers Regiment in the Collections of the Army Museum in Białystok” (3 September).

The 42nd Infantry Regiment named after General Jan Henryk Dąbrowski and the 10th Lithuanian Lancers Regiment are the patrons of the year 2022 in Białystok. One hundred years ago, both units were located in the city. They became a permanent part of the landscape of pre-war Bialystok.

This year’s celebrations have become a pretext for showing the rich museum collection dedicated to both of these military units to a wider audience. For more than fifty years, the Army Museum in Bialystok has been collecting documents, photographs and artefacts related to the activities of the Bialystok garrison. Presented from September to December 2022, the exhibition entitled ’42nd Infantry Regiment and 10th Lancers Regiment in the Collections of the Army Museum in Bialystok’ exemplifies the memory of past heroes.
We would like to encourage you to join us in building the collection of the 42nd Infantry Regiment and the 10th Lancer Regiment in Bialystok. If you have in your home archives documents, photographs, or memorabilia related to the military history of our city, we kindly ask you to share them with the Museum. Here they will find their proper and safe place. Do not let bygone realities disappear forever …

The opening will be attended by re-enactors of the 10th Lithuanian Lancers Regiment and re-enactors of the 42nd Infantry Regiment.

You can see the exhibition from Tuesday to Sunday, from 9:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. in the Army Museum at 7 Kilińskiego Street.

We invite everyone once again to join us in celebrating the birthday of the Army Museum in Bialystok. This time we will meet in the Military Park at 3 Węglowa Street, where we have invited historical re-enactors who will take us back to the realities of 17th century Europe.

The programme includes:
11:00 opening of a period nobleman’s encampment,
12:00 fencing demonstrations
14:00 drill demonstration
15:00 artillery display

There will also be an opportunity, in between demonstrations, to try your hand at a number of competitions prepared not only for children, or even to take a short fencing course and face the Master!

It will also be an ideal opportunity to see our newest exhibit, the LIM-5 aircraft!

The attraction will be complemented by games, activities and other animations prepared by educators from the Bialystok Army Museum.

The event will take place on Saturday, 3 September, from 9:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. at the Military Park at 3 Węglowa Street.

On the next anniversary of the outbreak of the Second World War, we would like to present you with an exhibition of German photographs documenting the Polish defensive war, and the period after its end, taken using the stereoscopic technique.

This consisted of taking two photographs from a slightly different point of view, which, when placed simultaneously in a goggle-like stereoscope, gave the impression of a three-dimensional image. This type of photography was also used in photoplasticons.

You can see the exhibition from Tuesday to Sunday, from 9:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. in the Education Hall of the Army Museum at 7 Kilińskiego Street.

Mini exhibition. Fallschirmjägerhelm M38 (from 1 September)
In the next few months, as part of our mini exhibition series, you will be able to see the Fallschirmjägerhelm M38, the helmet of a German paratrooper.

The origin of the parachute troops dates back to the 1930s. Between the wars, the United States, Great Britain and then the USSR and the Third Reich became interested in this innovative type of military. World War II and its battlefields resulted in the further development of parachute troops. Every country involved in this major conflict had its own, considered elite, paratroopers’ units and they wrote many war records. The paratrooper was associated above all with courage, valour and physical toughness.

The Fallschirmjägerhelm M38 on display is the helmet of a German paratrooper from the Second World War.

You can see the helmet from Tuesday to Sunday, from 9:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. in the Army Museum at 7 Kilińskiego Street.

End of the holiday at the MWB Education Centre (27 August)

This Saturday (27 August), we would like to invite you to activities specially prepared for the end of the summer holidays. On that day, unique attractions will be waiting for you at the MWB Education Centre, including t-shirt decorating, preparing a summer postcard in the collograph technique, and a selfie from ancient times.

The meeting is intended for children and young people aged 6-12, together with their caregivers. The classes at 26 Sienkiewicza St. will take place from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Admission is free.