On May 19th, 2019, for the second time in our history, the Józef Piłsudski Institute of America organized the Museum Night. The crowd gathered to visit the Institute, to see our gallery of paintings and an interesting exhibit - "75 years of the Pilsudski Institute", prepared in cooperation with the Institute of National Remembrance of Poland. We were also presenting the uniforms of the Polish Armed Forces in the West from our collection - thank you the students from PSS p.p. Cyril and Methodius for your help!
"Museum Night of 2019" was dedicated to generał Bolesław Wieniawa-Długoszowski. He was the main character of the movie "Wieniawa" by Grzegorz Gajewski. Iwona Korga, President of IJP gave a speech introducing Wieniawa's story, presented letters, photographs, and military memorabilia from our collection. The audience welcomed her presentation and the movie with applause.
The event was sponsored by PSFCU and NYC Department of Cultural Affairs.

Dr Iwona Korga President of Pilsudski Institute of America, Paulina Wojciechowska Seton Hall University, Jeremy Wong John Jay College of Criminal Justice (CUNY), prof. Jacek Czarnecki Kingsborough Community College, Piotr Puchalski University of Wisconsin-Madison, Matthew Ziarnik Villanova University, Aleksandra Korga Academy of American Studies.

On March 29th, 2019, a conference “ 1st Eastern European Student History Conference” was held at Kingsborough Community College, City University of New York. The conference was organized by Professor Jacek Czarnecki from Kingsborough Community College and a member of the Pilsudski Institute of America, in co-operation with the Institute. Mr. Czarnecki invited representatives of the American universities, who in their academic work focuses on history of Poland. The special guest of the conference, and a lecturer, was the Consul General of the Republic of Poland, Maciej Golubiewski. The conference was attended by: Piotr Puchalski from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Marcin Nagórski from Hunter College (CUNY), Matthew Ziarnik from Villanova University, Jeremy Wong from John Jay College of Criminal Justice (CUNY), Paulina Wojciechowska from Seton Hall University and Aleksandra Korga from the Academy of American Studies. The young panelists presented selected topics from history of Poland.