Family workshop
Discover an Iron Age lake fort, Vikings and the hidden jewels of an emperor in Poland.
Poland has a long and rich history of fossils and artefacts buried in its rich multi-cultural heritage. Learn how some fascinating discoveries were made by ordinary people. See a re-created open air working museum in the slideshow presentation. Then construct your own craft treasures to take home.
To book: please ph 09 533 3530 or email phtmuseum@outlook.com
Ages 5-adult (All children to be accompanied by an adult please)
$8 per person, including adults. Materials provided.
Cash or internet banking (sorry no Eftpos or credit card)
Held indoors at Polish Heritage Trust Museum, 125 Elliot St, Howick, Auckland
Free off-street parking, seating, restrooms and wheelchair access available.
Discover Polish archaeologists’ work in Poland and around the world, from Iron Age Biskupin Fort, Katyn Forest and Warsaw to Egypt and South America. Come and unearth links between World War 2, Resistance and Polish New Zealanders.
Adults only, contains sensitive content.
Free event for NZ Archaeology Week 2018
Enquiries 09 533 3530 or email: phtmuseum@outlook.com Bookings not required.
Held indoors at Polish Heritage Trust Museum 125 Elliot St, Howick, Auckland.
Free off-street parking, seating, restrooms and wheelchair access.
Complimentary tea and coffee.
The Polish Heritage Trust Museum is pleased to be part in NZ Archaeology Week 2018.
Discover Polish archaeologists’ work in Poland and around the world, from Iron Age Biskupin Fort, Katyn Forest and Warsaw to Egypt and South America. Come and unearth links between World War 2, Resistance and Polish New Zealanders.
Adults only, contains sensitive content.
Free event for NZ Archaeology Week 2018
Enquiries 09 533 3530 or email: phtmuseum@outlook.com Bookings not required.
Held indoors at Polish Heritage Trust Museum 125 Elliot St, Howick, Auckland.
Free off-street parking, seating, restrooms and wheelchair access.
Complimentary tea and coffee.
The Polish Heritage Trust Museum is pleased to be part in NZ Archaeology Week 2018.
This Event is part of the Arts Out East Festival 2018
View stunning original artworks by local artist Lindy Fisher and discover the story of 733 Polish children invited to NZ during WW2. Watch Poles Apart and peruse the galleries.
Hear an introductory talk about the Stefania Dancing Slippers artworks by Lindy Fisher, book written by Jennifer Beck.
Open to individuals and small groups.
Price is $10 per person. Sorry no eftpos available, receipt given.
Bookings not required.
‘Poles Apart’ (1 hour) tells the poignant story and background of 733 Polish children and 102 adults who came to live in Pahiatua, New Zealand, 1944. These survivors were forcibly deported from Poland to Russia during World War 2 then evacuated to Persia during a short amnesty. They eventually found a home in New Zealand.
This Event is part of Arts Out East Festival 2018
Polish decorative paper cut-outs belong to the most beautiful in the world. Traditionally they were made by hand, without drawing the lines first and cut with sheep-shearing scissors.
Come create with paper and scissors:
•Take home 2 art works.
•Watch a short presentation
•Designs based on the Lowicz and Kurpie regions of Poland
$8.00 per person includes all materials.
Bookings preferred, please phone 09-533.3530 or email phtmuseum@outlook.com
Adults can lead into the monthly Friday paper-cutters group. Please contact PHTM for more details about FPC.
Event part of Arts Out East Festival 2018
Polish decorative paper cut-outs belong to the most beautiful in the world. Traditionally they were made by hand, without drawing the lines first and cut with sheep-shearing scissors.
Come create with paper and scissors:
•Take home 2 art works.
•Watch a short presentation
•Designs based on the Lowicz and Kurpie regions of Poland
$8.00 per person includes all materials.
Bookings preferred, please phone 09-533.3530 or email phtmuseum@outlook.com
Adults can lead into the monthly Friday paper-cutters group. Please contact PHTM for more details about FPC.
‘When the Sun was a God / Stara Baśń’ dir. George Hoffman (2003).
This drama/fantasy tells the legendary story of King Popiel. It is set in Poland’s pagan times with fast action, explicit battles, romance and spectacular costumes. The fates of the characters interlace in an everlasting fight between good and evil and human passions of love, hatred and the greed for power.
The story focuses on Popiel, an evil and oppressive ruler who uses force unjustly on neighbouring people. The people unite and make an effort to overthrow him. Within the story are the Sun deity, a four faced statue worshiped by the Poles, and the Viking Odin, a second force portrayed as a very powerful group of warriors, who battle the pre-historic Poles.
The battle scenes are graphic and bloody with realistic special effects and sheer brutality.Of course, there is a love story complete with magical pagan rituals and dance. The movie contains eerie music and beautiful photographic imagery.
This feature film, based on an 1876 novel by Józef Ignacy Kraszewski, was released in the UK in 2011 under the title ‘Army of Valhalla’.
If you enjoy historical movies you have to watch this one..
Subtitles. Age 16+. 2-4.30 pm (135 min)
Museum entry by donation. Polish Museum, 125 Elliot St, Howick. Ph 533 3530
Pan Tadeusz or Mr Tadeusz, recounts the story of two feuding noble families and the love between Tadeusz Soplica (the title character) of one family, and Zosia of the other. Beautiful scenes and period costumes make this a must see…
The subplot involves a spontaneous revolt of the local inhabitants against the occupying Russian garrison.
The story takes place over the course of five days in 1811 and one day in 1812 at a point in Polish history, when Poland-Lithuanian Commonwealth had already been divided between Russia, Prussia, and Austria. The scene is set in the Lithuanian village of Soplicowo.
‘Promised Land / Ziemia obiecana’ dir. Andrzej Wajda (1975).
This historical drama is set during the late 19th century in Lódz, the cradle of the Polish textile industry, which seems to be a promising place for European migrants to Poland.
The film begins when three dispossessed but industrious men, a Pole, a Jew and a German set out to build their own factory. As one of them says, “I have nothing, you have nothing, he has nothing: this means we have enough to start a factory.”
But complicated relations in the world of manufacturers and a dangerous affair can destroy visionary plans.
‘Ziemia obiecana’ was the nickname of the city of Łódź , given by immigrants arriving in the industrial centre, searching for the prosperity promised by rapid modernization.
Viewers have commented that this film, made during the communist era, is also anti-capitalist.
Subtitles. Age 16+. Thursday Midweek (138 min)
Warsaw residents Ola and Jan experience one of the most important battles in world history. The Battle for Independence halted the Red Army’s march on Europe in the aftermath of WW1, forcing Lenin and Trotsky to resign from lighting the ‘flame of the world revolution’.
However, it is not the historical figures, apart from Pilsudski, who will play a decisive role in this film. The entire burden of action and the involvement of the audience’s emotions falls on the shoulders of the two literary characters: Ola, a revue theatre actress and her recently married husband Jan, a communist-supporting idealist. The fighting lines will be shown by Jan’s fate. Ola will be a participant and witness of the emotions experienced by the residents of Warsaw.
The 1920 Battle of Warsaw is the only battle fought and won by the Poles, unassisted by others, since the 17th century.