The 'Roads to Jerusalem' exhibition is an attempt to show the phenomenon of Jerusalem as a holy city of three great cultures: Jewish, Christian and Muslim. It will show Jerusalem existing in a concrete geographical, historical and cultural reality, but also as an imaginary space - a metaphysical pilgrimage destination, a traveller's phantasm, and an eschatological end to the life journeys of generations of believers in the hereafter. According to religious traditions, it was in Jerusalem that the world had its beginning and where it would one day (judicially) come to an end. Jerusalem is full of contradictions and paradoxes. It is a city both shared and divided, whose status has for centuries been linked to the spirituality and piety of followers of different religions, and at the same time to violent political conflicts, often religiously motivated.

The exhibition is conceived as an open and multicultural space of knowledge and dialogue, where the art and handicrafts of past eras meet the work of contemporary artists. We will present artworks and artefacts that originated in Jerusalem - and Palestine more broadly - as well as those that express a fascination and longing for the territory, evoking memories and symbolic excursions. We will reflect on the universal history, eternal myth and complex contemporaneity of Jerusalem from the local perspective of Warsaw. The title of the exhibition refers to Jerusalem as a destination for wandering and pilgrimage, but also to the specific location where the exhibition will be held - the main building of the National Museum in Warsaw, located at 3 Jerozolimskie Avenue.