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ROADS TO THE PAST – 30 YEARS OF RESCUE ARCHAEOLOGY IN POLAND

ROADS TO THE PAST – 30 YEARS OF RESCUE ARCHAEOLOGY IN POLAND


Discover the secrets beneath Poland’s roads and cities – a new temporary exhibition at the Archaeological Museum in Poznań!

On display: 2 September – 8 November 2026

Location: Archaeological Museum in Poznań, 27 Wodna Street
Temporary exhibition hall on the ground floor

Curators: Dr Danuta Żurkiewicz, Olga Adamczyk

Exhibition concept: Dr Danuta Żurkiewicz

Admission with a purchased ticket to the Museum

Have you ever wondered what lies beneath the motorways we travel on and the city streets we walk along every day? Our latest temporary exhibition, “Roads to the Past: 30 Years of Rescue Archaeology in Poland”, explores three decades of archaeological research.

Discover how Poland’s modern development has opened a window onto its deeply buried past. Follow four thematic “routes”, each presenting a different aspect of rescue archaeology through a rich variety of finds:

  • Infrastructure Route – remarkable objects unearthed during the construction of motorways and gas pipelines.
  • Urban Route – important discoveries revealing thousands of years of human activity at the heart of our cities.
  • Water Management Route – excavations and research carried out at sites threatened by flooding and erosion.
  • Agricultural Route – unique traces of the past preserved and discovered in agricultural landscapes.

The displays span the Palaeolithic to the modern period, combining archaeological artefacts with the latest technologies used in recording and documentation.

The exhibition is organised by the Archaeological Museum in Poznań and the Faculty of Archaeology, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań

Partners:

Adam Mickiewicz University Foundation, Archaeological Centre
Museum of Archaeology and Ethnography in Łódź
Archaeological Museum in Gdańsk
Archaeological Museum in Kraków
Institute of Archaeology and Ethnology, Polish Academy of Sciences in Kraków, Centre for the Archaeology of Mountains and Uplands
Institute of Archaeology and Ethnology, Polish Academy of Sciences in Wrocław, Centre for Research on the Culture of Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages
Institute of Archaeology and Ethnology, Polish Academy of Sciences in Poznań, Centre for Prehistoric and Medieval Studies
Professor Konrad Jażdżewski Foundation for Archaeological Research