Abstract
Museums have become especially prominent sites of Jewish experience—not only in Poland but elsewhere, including cities with large Jewish populations—as permanent and very publicly visible institutions. Their presence looms large despite the fact that many, if not most, people will visit a given museum only once, spending an hour or two there. Given its scope and salience, the POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews is poised to become the keystone in the arch of Polish Jewish experience.