Neon Museum, Warsaw

Neon Museum in Warsaw

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Established	19 May 2012; 9 years ago (2012-05-19)
Location	Mińska 25, Warsaw, Poland
Type	private museum
Collections	Neon signs
Director	Ilona Karwińska and David Hill
Website	www.neonmuzeum.org

The Neon Muzeum interior.

Neon Museum, also the Museum of Neon (Polish: Muzeum Neonów) is a museum located in Warsaw's Praga-Południe. The institution documents and protects Polish and Eastern Bloc light advertisements created after World War II. It is the first in Poland and one of the few museums of neon signs in the world.^[1]

The museum is located at ul. Mińska 25, on the premises of Soho Factory.^[2] It was established in 2012.

History[]

The history of the museum began in 2005 when Ilona Karwińska saved the Berlin neon sign from Marszałkowska Street in Warsaw.^[3] The collection of the museum features about 100 neon lights from all over Poland ^[4] Most of the neons come from the 1960s and 1970s.^[5]

The nine largest neon signs including GŁÓWNA KSIĘGARNIA TECHNICZNA (MAIN TECHNICAL BOOKSTORE), Jubiler, dworzec kolejowy CHODZIEŻ (CHODZIEŻ railway station), KINO PRAHA (PRAHA cinema) and WARSZAWA WSCHODNIA are located on different Soho Factory buildings.^[6] The museum also looks after some neon signs in Warsaw, including Mermaid on Grójecka Street.

In 2013, the museum together with RWE organized Neon for Warsaw competition.^[7]

Gallery[]

Miło Cię Widzieć, Gdański Bridge
Mermaid on Grójecka Street
Neon Museum, Warsaw

References[]

^ Wilder, Charly. "36 Hours in Warsaw, Poland". The New York Times. Retrieved 2018-11-06.
^ "How to spend a weekend in Warsaw". The Independent. Retrieved 2018-11-06.
^ "Wyborcza.pl". Warszawa.wyborcza.pl. Retrieved 6 November 2018.
^ "Uratowany bajeczny i inne skarby. Zobaczcie warszawskie neony". Cojestgrane24.wyborcza.pl. Retrieved 6 November 2018.
^ Al-awsat, Asharq. "Poland Celebrates History of Fluorescent Ads in Neon Museum". Aawsat.com (in Ukrainian). Retrieved 2018-11-06.
^ "Neon Museum". Lonelyplanet.com. Retrieved 2018-11-06.
^ Happy to see you

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