The European Solidarity Centre in Gdańsk is a museum and library devoted to the history of Solidarity, the Polish trade union and civil resistance movement, and other opposition movements in Communist Eastern Europe. The Polish firm FORT Architects won a 2007 international competition for it. Construction started in 2010. The article gives no completion date, style, materials or dimensions.
The walls are designed to evoke the hulls of ships built at the Gdańsk Shipyard. The library holds about 100,000 books and documents. It also hosts conferences and temporary exhibitions.
It opened on August 31, 2014, the anniversary of the 1980 Gdańsk Agreement, with Lech Wałęsa present. The total cost was 229 million zloty, with 113 million from the European Union. The centre awards Medals of Gratitude to foreigners who helped the Polish opposition. The article gives no hours.
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