Lively centres of culture and entertainment, absolutely multimedia and crowds attracting – this is the way that the new, wonderful museums built in Warsaw are supposed to be.

In the sequence of a few years Warsaw is going to turn into the city of museums. A few of them are coming into existence very soon - all are supposed to be even more modern than the Warsaw Rising Museum which is often refered to as a good example for other museums.

The popularity of museums started in 2004 when the multimedia Warsaw Rising Museum was opened in the historical tram power station. Today it is a lively centre of culture, where the young and adults can talk with each other not only about the history, but also about cinema, art, comic books and architecture.

„Over 500 000 tourists visited our Museum - said the employees of the Rising Museum, reasuming the year 2009. - If we put them in a line holding each other hands, they would embrace the equator over 6 times”.

The directors of the new Warsaw's museums admit, that they not only want to outdistance the Warsaw Rising Museum, but they have to compete with the shopping and entertainment centres for the leisure time of Poles. That is why they prepared an offer which will attract whole families and encourage them to spend a couple of hours in the museum during weekends. Apart from modern multimedia exhibitions with touch screens they are extending the commercial part with screening rooms, bookshops, cafés and restaurants.

As a matter of fact, though judged ambiguously, these are the world trends.

Glenn Lowry, the director of New York's Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), in 1997 disapprovingly talked about „a loud, cacophonous show, form which everybody has a great fun”. Victoria Newhose architecture critic in an article „Towards new museum” warned: "Entertainment can constitute the desired alternative to the museum-mausoleum, but with an improper attitude it can quickly transform into the vulgar commercialism which downgrades the art".

In a few years we will know how polish museums deal with this challenge. Today we introduce you just a couple of the most important museums: The Fryderyk Chopin Museum, Museum of the History of Polish Jews, Modern Art Museum, Museum of Polish History, Museum of the Polish Army and Copernicus Science Centre, which in fact is not a museum but it will be running popularizing and educational work with an impetus.