During a special press conference, details of Podlasie’s receipt of a subsidy for the construction of the Blessed Jerzy Popieluszko Museum in the priest’s small homeland in the village of Okopy were presented. The investment worth 57.7 million zlotys received additional financing from the European Union in the amount of 37.58 million zlotys.
Marta Cenkowska
This should speed up the process of building the complex, which was emphasized by the Vice-Minister of Culture and National Heritage of the Republic of Poland Marta Cenkowska. “It will be a place that will create another center of local activity. With the help of European funds, we have new conditions under this new EU perspective. And here we are creating a new cultural institution. It will be a center of local activity and contribute to the development of its own regional activity,” she said.
The importance of financing for the early opening of the Cinderella Museum for the region was emphasized by Podlaskie voivode Jacek Brzozowski.
Jacek Brzozowski
“We mention the chaplain of the Warsaw Solidarity. We also mention that the priest Popieluszko was a person fighting for human rights, civil rights. The figure came from the Podlaskie region and it is very pleasant that a museum will appear on the territory of the Podlaskie voivodeship, as an institution that will not only tell about the figure of the priest Popieluszko himself, but will be directed to broad advantages and will also tell about those difficult times in Poland,” said the Voivode.
It is known that the final opening date of the Museum of the Blessed Priest Jerzy Popeluszko in the trenches has been postponed from 2025 to 2027.
