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Polish community 'honoured' with exhibition

Nathan Hemmingham
BBC News
Hull City Council A glass cabinet with artefacts, including shoes and jewellery, highlighting Polish culture. It is standing in a museum with posters and information boards on a crisp white wall.Hull City Council
The exhibition at Streetlife Museum celebrates 100 years of the Polish Community in Hull

An exhibition celebrating more than 100 years of the Polish community in Hull has opened with the help of local school pupils.

Taking place at the city's Streetlife Museum, Czesc Hull, to my! / Hi Hull, it's us! explores Polish traditions, food, dress and lifestyle.

Hull Museums worked with pupils from The Irena Sendler Polish School and St Mary's Polish School, as well as University of Hull students and the local Polish community.

Joanna Radecka, headteacher at Irena Sendler, said the local Polish community felt "honoured to be acknowledged" and saw the exhibition as a great opportunity to share their culture and efforts with the residents of Hull.

Hull City Council A room inside a museum. It has wooden floor panels and white walls. There is a white table in the centre with pencils and in the background is a glass cabinet with an army uniform. On the walls are posters and pictures.Hull City Council
The exhibition will highlight Polish traditions as well as food, dress and lifestyle

Frances Hodson, Hull Museums community curator of social history, said: "It has been a privilege to work with such an enthusiastic, amazing community with a rich culture, both here in Hull and in Poland, and share it with all our audiences at Hull Museums."

The free exhibition is presented in both English and Polish and is on display until Sunday 29 June.

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