Meetings with history in the academic year 2024/2025 is a series of 7 meetings in English during which guests will learn about the history of Wroclaw based on the exhibition “Wroclaw 1945-2016” and the temporary exhibition “Freedom climbers. Wrocław citizens in the high mountains”. The meetings are aimed at foreigners and Poles who want to practice their language skills. Each meeting relates to one part of the exhibition or temporary exhibition and consists of an approximately 30-minute guided tour and an activity that deepens the acquired knowledge, consolidates it and provokes discussion. Through the use of various forms of historical narrative presentation - a scenic exhibition, a guided tour, a workshop or a game and animation by the presenter - we offer participants
a multifaceted educational and social experience.
HARMONOGRAM SPOTKAŃ:
5.11.2024 r.: How did Breslau become Wrocław? (1945-1956)
- How did Breslau become Wrocław? The creation of Wrocław as a Polish city - its space and its character - was a long process, which is perhaps still ongoing. These elements were negotiated by the various groups of people who settled in the city after World War II in the shadow of the new totalitarian government, which aimed to subjugate the society. We will discuss the experiences of this period, ways of making a place your own and life under totalitarianism on 5.11.
10.12.2024 r.: The Polish Christmas
- Many of today's Christmas traditions have their roots in the distant past, but others have been established quite recently. Some span the entire country, while others are local. What did Christmas in Wroclaw homes of the communist period look like? And what do they look like today? Our guests will learn all this and more during a special Christmas meeting with delicious - also festive - refreshments.
14.01.2025 r.: Everyday life in Wrocław (1950s-1970s)
- Paris or Wroclaw, what's the difference? Daily life behind the Iron Curtain posed many challenges to society, which took time and experience to navigate. Partially cut off from the rest of the world, Poland, and with it Wrocław, developed in parallel to Western Europe, sometimes only coming out ahead. During the fourth meeting in the Meetings with history series, we will explore the differences, and perhaps even the similarities, between east and west, capitalism and communism, democracy and totalitarianism.
11.02.2025 r.: Freedom Climbers.
- Meeting dedicated to the temporary exhibition
11.03.2025 r.: Birth of Wrocław’s Solidarity (1980-1983)
- A decade of Solidarity, or solidarity? The Zajezdnia History Center is located in the former Depot No. 7 for a reason. It was here in August 1989 that the Wroclaw Solidarity strike with the Coast began and it was here that the Wroclaw “Solidarity” was born. During the fourth meeting of the Meetings with history series, we will discuss Tomasz Surowiec, historical hindsight and solidarity through small and big “S”.
15.04.2025 r.: After the martial law – fall of communism (1983-2016)
- Wroclaw - a meeting place? The late 1980s marked the beginning of the political transformation and the processes that created the city we know today. However, Wroclaw's present day is not just about the fall of communism. The 1990s and the beginning of the 21st century were a series of extremely important events that formed our community. The most transformative of these was the Millennium Flood, which in 1997 became another generational experience for Wroclaw residents.