The main message that the museum conveys is that there is an ever-existing conflict between the evil forces of war on the one hand, and the human spirit''s resistance on the other.
It is of utmost importance to watch out for evil forces trying to rise again and again all around our planet.
This message is emphasized by two opposing tectonic elements entwined in the DNA of the design:
the oppressive huge metal body as a war machine that threatens to run over the existing world - as opposed to the grid of wooden construction.
This construction of wooden columns, growing out of the foundation - grid of the pre-war city of Gdansk - carry the memory, both in scale and material, of the old world trying to resist the war machine. The wooden columns are designed to freeze while collapsing. The moment of collapse is symbolically stopped to emphasize that in the eternal conflict between good and evil, between life and death, in the end the human spirit prevails.
