Muzeum Pojezierza Łęczyńsko-Włodawskiego, Włodawa

Museum - Synagogue Complex in Wlodawa - established in 1981, the museum is located in the synagogue complex in Wlodawa.

The Museum - Synagogue Complex in Włodawa was established on the basis of the ordinance of the Head of the Włodawa Town Council of 10 August 1981. The official opening of the institution took place in 1983. The Museum is located in the synagogue complex which was left after the Jewish community operating in the town until World War II. The building complex consists of: The Great Synagogue, the Little Synagogue and the pokah house. During the communist era, before the Museum took custody of the buildings, they were used, among other things, as military and cooperative warehouses.

The museum has four departments: ethnographic, historical, promotional-educational and administrative. The ethnographic department is responsible for organizing exhibitions presenting local folklore and folklore of exotic cultures. The historical department collects relics and documents related to the history of Włodawa and the region. Judaica constitute a large part of these souvenirs. Some of them can be seen on the permanent exhibition in the men's room of the Great Synagogue. The promotion and education department deals with the promotion of the region. One of the most important achievements of the institution in this sphere is initiating and conducting a cyclic event commemorating the multiethnic and multi-religious history of the town - the Festival of Three Cultures.

Since 1994 Museum Notebooks have been published - an educational and scientific publication edited by the employees of the Museum. The issues contain articles on history and culture of the region, as well as document current activities of the Museum.

In 1993, the Museum of the Former Death Camp in Sobibór was established as a branch of the Wlodawa Museum. The branch was located on 9 hectares of real estate, including the building of a former kindergarten, which housed the permanent exhibition entitled Sobibór - the death camp, opened in 2000. In 2012, the Sobibór Museum became a branch of the State Museum at Majdanek.

In 2016 the institution adopted a new name: Museum - Synagogue Complex in Włodawa.