The Lux Veritatis Foundation, founded by Father Tadeusz Rydzyk, was sued by the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage. This is about building the Memorial and Identity Museum in Toruń. "Polish state regains control of public money" - wrote Marta Cienkowska, head of the ministry, who demands cancellation of contracts and return PLN 210 million with interest.
The information was first communicated to the public Deputy Minister for Culture Maciej Wróbel. "We request the cancellation of agreements concluded between the Minister of Culture and the Foundation and withto charge PLN 210 million with interest to the State Treasury. Museum - YES - but on clear and transparent principles" - wrote on platform X, stressing that the foundation showed no willingness to settle.
The Ministry filed a suit against Rydzyk Foundation. "Regains control"
Addressed the Communication Minister of Culture Marta Cienkowska. According to her, "Polish state regains control of public money". As she added, for months, unsuccessful attempts were made to scope an agreement with the Lux Veritatis Foundation, founded at the initiative of Father Tadeusz Rydzyk.
Cienkowska noted that "the era of immunity and private projects financed by public funds has come to an end", and The law applies to all without exception. "We are working to get back what belongs to the citizens. And we're going to finish this case," she concluded.
The Polish State regains control of public money. After months of unsuccessful attempts to agree with the Lux Veritatis Foundation, we file a suit for the cancellation of contracts concerning the Museum of Memory and Identity and return PLN 210 million with interest.
— Marta Cienkowska (@MartaCienkowska) November 13, 2025
The era of immunity and private... https://t.co/kwtTGOEqdS
A separate message was published in the same average Head of the Ministry of abroad Affairs Marcin Kierwiński. "Ministry of Culture demands return of over PLN 200 million from Rydzyk Foundation. Let me remind you that Gliński was behind this.. And I hope the circumstances of this uproaring case are cleared up. To the bottom," he wrote.
Memorial and Identity Museum in Toruń. Results of NIK checks
Earlier in September, she informed about the case Supreme Chamber of Control. It was then communicated that the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage spent almost 206 million PLN to be created with the Lux Veritatis Foundation Museum of Memory and Identity by St. John Paul II.
NIK assessed that as a consequence of the contract almost self-financed and co-financed by the state cultural institution "can become in comparatively short time entirely privately owned". The home has submitted a announcement to the D.A. of a legitimate suspicion that a erstwhile Minister of Culture has committed a crime under the Law and Justice. Piotr Gliński.
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He was accused of exceeding his rights, acting against the State and causing losses to the State Treasury of over PLN 57 million. The NIK audit showed that in June 2018 Gliński concluded a contract with Lux Veritas Foundation, even though the entity had no experience in museum activities or had no exhibits to organize exhibitions.
Minister admitted during the audit that he had made a decision based on "personal conviction and trust in the Toruń environment", which showed the initiative for the establishment of the museum.
Annex to the agreement with Rydzyk Foundation signed days after the election
The Ministry spent almost PLN 149 million on building the facility until the NIK control was completed, and additional PLN 57 million to make and run a permanent exhibition, although the contract did not foresee specified expenses. The signed document, on the another hand, assumed that the foundation would not gotta return money to the Ministry for the liquidation of the museum if it fulfilled certain conditions - the conduct of museum activities for at least 10 years and maintenance of collections.
"The agreement besides indicated that the museum would operate until the end of 2023, and its continued operation would depend on the consent of both parties, which is contrary to the law about organizing and conducting cultural activities" - said NIK.
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A fewer days after the parliamentary elections - 19 October - At the time, the Minister of Culture signed an annex to the agreement adjusting erstwhile records to the activities carried out. "Moreover, a fresh evidence was introduced which required another minister to hand over the Lux Veritatis Foundation not little than PLN 15 million per year for 4 consecutive years" - NIK determined.
The Chamber besides noted that the museum was solemnly opened on the date of signing the annex, but without a permanent exhibition. As indicated in the Communication, the facility operates in limited form, "because according to the Museums Act, the day of the completion of the organisation of specified an institution is adopted the day of the beginning of the permanent exhibition".
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