Museum big as a half of polish province

People visiting this museum don’t need special slippers, because they don’t even look at the exhibits closed in the glass. In this case, it is usefull to have a notebook connected to the internet and to use GPS. Visitors walk through the forests of łódzkie voivodship, from Koluszki, to Krośniewice and Rogów, and have an opportunity to see the old cemeteries, narrow-gauge railway or forgotten trenchs.

Operation Lódź could be compared to this performed in France and cumulated in Verdun. While in France commemoration is well distinguished and well organized for visitors, in Poland almost nobody knows about 200 thousands of Russian, German and Polish soldiers, who have died in small villages across Lodz and Warsaw. After them remains 273 cemeteries, hidden in the area of voivodship. GPS would be a tool to find them and to discover the route of the front. Internet guide would tell the story about all militar activities and victims.

In the Operation Łódź fought 700 thousands German, Russian and Austrian soldiers.

The City of Koluszki, to honor died soldiers, filmed remains of cemeteries and the last railways and created documentary of Operation Lodz. It is avaiable in polish in Google Video site.

All Lodzkie is interested in promotion of forgotten military roads. The heads of voivodship think at this moment about creating 65 km touristic track providing from Museum of Lodz History to Lowicz and Piotrkow. Such historic tourism would be possible after local governments apply for a patronate on commemorising Operation Lodz and approving those branch of front in 1914 as heritage of Europe in the same way as it was in the case of Verdun. For now, to know more about militar operations in Lodz, you can visit: www.lodz1914.pl.

via gazeta.pl

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Kategorie: Formy upamiętnienia / In english / Muzeum - nowe strategie