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12:26, 07-Jun-2018
The world's first Polish vodka museum to open in Warsaw
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A new museum opening in Warsaw devotes itself to Polish vodka, a 500-year-old national tradition and one of the country’s best-known exports.
The Polish Vodka Museum is scheduled to open next Tuesday in a former 19th-century vodka factory that is part of an industrial area undergoing revitalization and gentrification.
A visitor walks through the Polish Vodka Museum in Warsaw, Poland, June 6, 2018. /VCG Photo
A visitor walks through the Polish Vodka Museum in Warsaw, Poland, June 6, 2018. /VCG Photo
A visitor attends a vodka testing event at the Polish Vodka Museumin Warsaw, Poland, June 6, 2018. /VCG Photo
A visitor attends a vodka testing event at the Polish Vodka Museumin Warsaw, Poland, June 6, 2018. /VCG Photo
A visitor attends a vodka testing event at the Polish Vodka Museum in Warsaw, Poland, June 6, 2018. /VCG Photo
A visitor attends a vodka testing event at the Polish Vodka Museum in Warsaw, Poland, June 6, 2018. /VCG Photo
Glasses and a bottle of vodka are seen during a vodka testing event at the Polish Vodka Museum in Warsaw, Poland, June 6, 2018. /VCG Photo
Glasses and a bottle of vodka are seen during a vodka testing event at the Polish Vodka Museum in Warsaw, Poland, June 6, 2018. /VCG Photo
A visitor walks through the Polish Vodka Museum in Warsaw, Poland, June 6, 2018. /VCG Photo
A visitor walks through the Polish Vodka Museum in Warsaw, Poland, June 6, 2018. /VCG Photo
The CEO of the Polish Vodka Association, Andrzej Szumowski, says he hopes the multimedia exhibition housed in several rooms will bring greater recognition to the national drink.
During a media tour on Wednesday, Szumowski described vodka as an essential component of Poland’s heritage and claimed that Poles were the first to produce it – something he acknowledged was a point of dispute with Russia.
He called Polish vodka “part of our DNA, part of our history, heritage, and tradition.”
(Cover: A visitor reacts at the Polish Vodka Museum on June 6, 2018, a new museum that will open next Tuesday, in Warsaw, Poland. / VCG Photo)
Source(s): AP