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The opinion refers to the Deputies’ bill on the investments in the scope of the construction of the Museum of Westerplatte and War of 1939 – a Department of the Museum of the Second World War in Gdańsk. The author discusses the legal regulations in the sphere of monument protection in the Polish state in the twentieth century and comments on the discussed bill. He points to the fact that Westerplatte Battlefield – based on the regulation of the President of the Republic of Poland of 22 August 2003 – is considered a historic monument. Moreover, in the author’s opinion, the museum construction plan presented in the bill constitutes a cohesive concept of the spatial policy of managing the Westerplatte region. Hence, the museum design – in the context of the history of the Polish state and the outbreak of the Second World War – is an investment of symbolic significance.