Muzeum Wojska w Białymstoku

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Army Museum in Białystok (Polish: Muzeum Wojska w Białymstoku) is a military museum in Białystok in Podlaskie Voivodeship in north-eastern Poland. It is the largest army museum in the region. First opened in 1968, since 1976 it has been operating as an independent museum unit with a macro-regional range. It is currently a self-governing cultural institution of the city of Białystok. Until the end of 2016 the Siberian Memorial Museum existed as a branch of the Army Museum..

History: The museum was established in September 1968 as a branch of the District Museum (now the Podlaskie Museum in Białystok). It was the result of many years of research and the collective passion of a large group of people in love with the military past of the Białystok region and the society of the Białystok region, wishing to document the armed struggles of their ancestors, from the beginning of the Polish state through the period of independence fights after the end of World War II in the years 1945–1956. The original seat of the museum was the Guest Palace. It soon turned out that the building could no longer contain any further exhibits. In 1974, the museum was moved to 7 Kilińskiego Street, its current...