On 11 and 12 December 2014 initiators of the creation of the Museum of Deportation in Mereni (approx. 25 km from Chisinau) visited Poland at the invitation of the Polish Institute of National Remembrance. To date, there is no place in Moldova commemorating the victims of totalitarian regimes. The project entails creating a museum complex of educational character to commemorate approx. 100,000 victims of Stalinist deportations from Bessarabia (now Moldova).

So far, a replica of the house from the 1940s has been created and several statues symbolizing the deportation. The project is implemented with the support of local authorities, which have provided adequate space for the future museum.

The aim of the visit was to create a „business plan” for the „Museum of Deportation in Mereni” based on the Polish experience. Therefore, Silesia was the first stop of the visit. The guests were particularly interested in the work of the „Centre for Documentation and Deportation Upper Silesians to the USSR” in Radzionków, which is being created under an agreement of Silesian local authorities and the Branch of the Institute of National Remembrance in Katowice. In Silesia, the delegation also visited the Silesian Museum, Center for Jewish History in Gliwice, Upper Silesia and Central Museum of Prisoners of War in Łambinowice-Opole.

In Warsaw, apart from meetings in the IPN, the program included visiting the Museum of the History of Polish Jews, Warsaw Rising Museum, the Museum of Polish History, History Meeting House and the „Karta” Center.