Wrocław Contemporary Museum (MWW)

Address Plac Strzegomski 2A, 53-681 Wrocław

The Museum of Contemporary Art is housed in a striking former Nazi-era air-raid bunker on Plac Strzegomski. The collection focuses on Polish and Central European contemporary art from the 1960s onwards, with strong holdings of the Wrocław neo-avant-garde and the political-conceptual art of the late communist period.

The cylindrical concrete building is itself part of the experience — narrow stairs spiral up through six floors, with rooftop installations that give views west over the city. Changing exhibitions are usually worth catching.

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The museum is housed in a 1942 above-ground concrete bunker, built by forced labourers as an air-raid shelter for civilians of the Strzegom district. Its 2-metre walls and brutal cylindrical form proved impossible to demolish economically after the war, so the city left it standing for decades before turning it over to the new contemporary art museum in 2011.

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