Museum of Scouting in Warszawa: Your Guide to Polish Scouting History

The Museum of Scouting in Warsaw, Poland, is a history museum focused on the scout movement in Poland. Established in 2001, it aims to collect and preserve items related to the history of Polish scouting and disseminate information about its collections and values.

The idea of establishing a museum dedicated to scouting dates back to 1916. However, the Museum of Scouting was officially established on June 6, 2001, by Wiesław Maślanka, president of the Polish Scouting Association (ZHP), encouraging participation from all Polish scouts.

The Museum of Scouting is located in the YMCA building at Konopnickiej 6 in Warsaw, which also serves as the Headquarters of the Polish Scouting Association.

After being housed at the Egyptian Temple in Łazienki Park from 2005 to 2010, the museum's collections were moved to their current location in the Headquarters of the Polish Scouting Association building in Warsaw in 2010.

During the interwar period, Waclaw Blazejewski actively worked towards establishing a museum and building a facility to house scouting collections. These efforts were interrupted by the outbreak of World War II.

Following the reactivation of the Polish Scouting Association (ZHP), scouting memorabilia and documents were actively collected by the organization, contributing to the eventual creation of the Museum of Scouting.

The museum's objectives extend beyond collection to disseminating information about scouting history and values, evangelizing the principles of scouting, and shaping the values of visitors through its collections.

Between 2001 and 2013, the Museum of Scouting organized a significant number of exhibitions covering various aspects of scouting history, cooperation with the army, scout mail, and prominent figures, held in Warsaw and other Polish cities.