The exhibition Difficult Love. Museum between the Square and the Palace was prepared in collaboration with the team from GTA Exhibitions - a gallery at the ETH School of Architecture in Zurich, whose students regularly make study trips to Warsaw. This time, however, curators Fredi Fischli and Niels Olsen invited people from Harvard University's Graduate School of Design, where they were guest lecturers for a semester. The Harvard students visited Warsaw and prepared designs on the meaning-laden site where the Museum was built. Their concepts were presented in the form of architectural models and graphics. The models are on display in a gallery on the ground floor of the new building, along a window on the eastern façade of the MSN - they create an alternative urban frontage for Marszałkowska Street. They represent fantasies of potential exhibitions in relation to the neighbouring Centre Department Stores and to activities that MSN could realise in the future.

The works presented in the festival exhibition also refer to the present day, in which museums have become policy makers, or at least a certain mirror of it. But what kind of power do they represent and what kind of mechanisms to work on the difficult history of the world, the artists ask. In the spirit of this concept, those creating the first exhibition in the new MSN building postulate that the new Museum should not turn into a 'museum-mausoleum' - a kind of monumental tomb - but that it should be a place for living communication with society through art - a place for learning about and understanding the world.