On Jun. 16, an exposition of the Polish Pavilion for the Shanghai World Expo 2010 at the National Ethnographic Museum (Kredytowa 1 St. in Warsaw) was opened.
The Pavilion’s project was designed by a team of architects comprised of Wojciech Kakowski, Marcin Mostafa and Natalia Paszkowska. The exposition was organized by the Polish Information and Foreign Investment Agency, the Bureau of the Commissioner General of Polish Section Expo 2010 and the National Ethnographic Museum in Warsaw.
The opening was chaired by Paweł Wojciechowski, the PAIiIZ President and Dr Adam Czyżewski, the director of the National Ethnographic Museum in Warsaw. The project is beautiful and innovative, it draws on tradition but contemporary elelments are effectively interwoven- said the PAIiIZ President.
The opening was graced with the presence of: Ewa Juńczyk-Ziomecka, Secretary of State in the Office of the President of the Republic of Poland; Waldemar Dąbrowski, the former Minister of Culture; Ma Changlin, Economic Chancellor of the Embassy of the People's Republic of China in Warsaw; Li Chengyao, Commercial Attaché of the Embassy of the People's Republic of China in Warsaw and also Chinese journalists visiting Poland: Ms Du Jing, journalist of ‘Yunnan Daily’ and a member of the Chinese Writers Association; Tang Xiaoke, Editor in Chief of the Chinese Press Agency Sinhua; Li Xin, deputy director of an influential internet portal Renmin Qianlong; Liu Bo, ‘The Economic Observer’ journalist and Zhu Tong, journalist form a popular, nationwide tourist magazine ‘China Geography’.
The exposition forms part of the Polish section’s EXPO preparations and will be opened for the public at the National Ethnographic Museum in Warsaw till Sept. 20, 2008.