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The Polish president has confirmed plans for the construction of a Jewish museum in Warsaw that will celebrate the Jewish life that flourished in the country before it was destroyed in the Holocaust. While Germany has seen a surge in the number of Holocaust monuments and museums in recent years, the country where Nazis built extermination camps such as Auschwitz and Treblinka, still lacks an official place to commemorate Poland’s 3 million Jews who died during WWII. The Museum of the History of Polish Jews is to be opened in two years’ time in a remarkable building designed by Finnish architects Rainer Mahlamaki and Ilmari Lahdelma.

Go to website Museum of the History of Polish Jews
(English site will be available from June 28, 2007)

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The International Herald Tribune reports that visitors to the Bargello museum in Florence will be able to see restorers at work removing centuries of dirt from Donatello’s “David” starting Tuesday.

Go to website Bargello National Museum (in English)