The Polish Book Institute

“The Adam Mickiewicz Museum is a beautiful symbol of respect for history and Polish heritage in Turkey. I very much hope that the Museum will continue to develop and bring closer the figure of the eminent Pole in Turkey,” wrote the Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Culture, National Heritage and Sports, Professor Piotr Gliński, in the museum's visitors’ book. During the symbolic opening of the redesigned exhibition at the Adam Mickiewicz Museum in Istanbul, Prof. Gliński emphasised that the unofficial purpose of Adam Mickiewicz's journey in September 1855 to Constantinople, now Istanbul, was an attempt to recruit troops for the Polish Army to fight against Tsarist Russia.