| Day of the week | Opening hours | |
|---|---|---|
| Monday |  |
08:00 - 15:30 |
| Tuesday | |
08:00 - 15:30 |
| Wednesday | |
08:00 - 15:30 |
| Thursday | |
08:00 - 15:30 |
| Friday | |
08:00 - 15:30 |
| Sunday | |
09:00 - 16:00 |
| Holidays | Opening hours |
|---|---|
| 2024.12.25 (Wednesday) | x |
| 2024.12.26 (Thursday) | x |
| Tickets | |
|---|---|
| free admission | |
It is an open-air exhibition, located at the site of the former prisoner-of-war camp Stalag 318/VIII F (344) Lamsdorf, next to a forest path linking the Museum with the Monument to the Martyrdom of Prisoners-of-War, and which you can take on foot or by bicycle. It is also accessible by car – from the direction of the village of Szadurczyce. The admission to the exhibition is free; you can visit is on your own or – what is recommended – with a guide. Besides the guided service, you can also obtain at the Museum premises a plan of the exhibition, and purchase books and POW themed souvenirs.
The exhibition, thanks to its unique form, is aesthetically integrated with the natural surroundings of a forest clearing and the camp's relicts that have survived in a relatively good condition in this particular place. It is composed of: a model of the camp site, a timeline including the most important historical facts of the place, information guides (in the form of non-commonplace benches), an artistic installation ‘Presence’, and a Wall of Reflection.
The purpose of the exhibition's authors was to create an emotionally engaging message, focused on the stories of real men extracted form anonymous masses of people, and the same time representative to it as much as possible. It is because the tragedy of captivity touched representatives of many different nations and varied armies, but also the civilian population held in the camps awaiting, forced by the wars, expulsions. The voices comprising the story of Place with a Scar, belong to the witnesses of these events - victims of the wars. These are extracts from their war diaries, memoirs and accounts. They correspond with archival photographs.
Place with a Scar was honoured with a special award of the Marshal of the Opole Province as "Museum Event of the Year 2021".
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