The “museum boom” is a global phenomenon with various local manifestations and wide‐ranging antecedents. The recent museum boom in Poland, in which a number of national museum complexes have either opened or undergone significant remodeling, is related to changing evidential discourses about collective identity. These discourses are part of the national narratives surrounding the Polish state. This essay asks what can be learned from the Polish museum boom. Notably, museums and museum‐like institutions within Poland serve as a space for education and dialogue that both complements and contrasts with history education in schools and written history books. Through comparative case studies, this essay addresses how the museum boom is rooted in the particularities of Poland’s history. Museums elsewhere are experiencing similar shifts, and we ask here what these changes can tell us about the transformations of history museums in Poland.

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当代波兰及其他地区“博物馆繁荣”的含义

“博物馆热潮”是一种全球现象，具有各种局部表现和广泛的前因。波兰最近的博物馆热潮与许多关于集体身份的证据论断有关，其中许多国家博物馆大楼已经开放或进行了重大改建。这些话语是围绕波兰国家的民族叙事的一部分。本文询问从波兰博物馆热潮中可以学到什么。值得注意的是，波兰的博物馆和类似博物馆的机构充当了教育和对话的空间，与学校和书面历史书籍中的历史教育形成了互补和对比。通过比较案例研究，本文论述了博物馆热潮如何植根于波兰历史的特殊性。其他地方的博物馆也在经历类似的转变，