The collection of the Radio Free Europe consists of 17 000 recordings of broadcasts on magnetic tapes and casettes, most of them covering the key historical events in Poland and within Polish diaspora. Polish Section of the Radio Free Europe broadcasted political, but also cultural, musical, religious and entertainment content, created by journalists and writers from Polish diaspora in Western Europe. The Radio was one of the main sources of independent news in socialist Poland.

Location:
- Warszawa Stefana Hankiewicza 1, Poland
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Date of founding:
- 1952
Featured items:
- Józef Światło's Testimony, recording, 1954

Polish Underground Library at Libri Prohibiti

The Polish Underground Library was set up in 2009 in collaboration with the The Karta Center Foundation in Warsaw. It is comprised of Polish underground and exile publications, Polish flyers, posters, sound and visual recordings that are part of the Libri Prohibiti’s collections.

Location:
- Senovážné nám. 2, 110 00 Praha 1, Czech Republic
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Date of founding:
- 2009

Polish Underground Publications Collection at Polish Library POSK in London

Located at the Polish Library of the Polish Social and Cultural Association (POSK) in London, Polish Underground Publications collection contains serials, books, and brochures published clandestinely by Polish opposition groups from 1976 to 1990. This is one of the largest collections of Polish independent publications worldwide and outside Poland. It documents the pluralistic character of anti-communist opposition in People's Poland and testifies to the richness, diversity, and magnitude of underground publishing in People's Poland.

Location:
- London King Street 238-246, United Kingdom
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Date of founding:
- 1980
Featured items:
- Underground issues of "brulion" literary and cultural periodical

Polja (Fields), magazine for culture and art collection

Polja magazine [Fields in English], is one of the longest running periodicals in the former Yugoslavia, and was first published in 1955 in Novi Sad. Throughout 506 issues, Polja has covered important periods in Yugoslav cultural history and has featured young authors in the fields of literature, cultural theory, and literary and film criticism. The magazine has a history of providing a platform for social criticism, as it became inseparable from the youth-led organization Tribina mladih [Tribune of Youth] which criticized the social and political situation in the country and the culture of its time.

Location:
- Novi Sad, Serbia
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Date of founding:
- 1955
Featured items:
- Death in light of Marxism, issue 236

Popmuseum

The collection at the Popmuseum includes both written and audiovisual archive materials and other tangible artefacts that relate to Czech and Slovak pop music. The institution, besides running the museum and holding popular activities, also manages a large archive. The collection is the biggest of its kind in the Czech Republic. Pop music, not only rock, is seen by the museum in a complex context but the collection and the exposition describe opposition activities connected with the phenomenon of “West” and “undesirable” music genres from 1950s until 1980s in Czechoslovakia as well.

Location:
- Bělohorská 201/150, 169 00 Praha 6 - Břevnov, Czech Republic
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Date of founding:
- 1998
Featured items:
- Karel Haloun’s poster for the Rolling Stones concert in Prague in 1990
- Portable electronic keyboard Ionika