Not everyone becomes a hero of their time. Not everyone becomes a symbol for subsequent generations. Why do we remember Józef Piłsudski today?

The exhibition, presented on the 90th anniversary of his death, tells the story of the continuity of social memory of the Marshal's phenomenon. More than 100 museum objects will take us from the decline of Józef Piłsudski's life to the present day and the Marshal's still vivid presence in the popular consciousness. The exhibition can be visited at the Józef Piłsudski Museum in Sulejówek, an institution that is itself a lasting memorial to the Marshal's life work and to him!

The centrepiece of the exhibition is an impressive MAKIETY REPLICATION from 1938, depicting a model of Marshal Józef Piłsudski's Quarter. This massive, unrealised urban planning scheme in the capital perfectly illustrates the scale of the need for his contemporaries to perpetuate the Marshal's legacy. Many such architectural commemorations were planned, but only some of them were realised before the outbreak of the Second World War. However, it was not only PUBLIC SPACE, BUILDINGS and MONUMENTS, but also WORKS OF ART, PUBLICATIONS and PRINTING, as well as IMMATERIAL FORMS that were - and still are - supposed to immortalise Józef Piłsudski's legacy. The exhibition's successive objects from different eras (the Second Republic, the People's Republic of Poland, the Third Republic) succeed in spinning a narrative about the ways in which the Marshal's memory was commemorated, both in the past and in the present, and about its restoration.