The Museum of the History of Polish Jews in Warsaw will be officially open to the public with the core exhibition on 28 October 2014. An international team 130 scholars was brought together in 2006 to begin work on the main exhibition under the lead of programme director Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett. It will be made up of eight galleries covering 4,300 square metres, illustrating a thousand years of Jewish life in Polish territories. As Professor Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, explains, "These 1,000 years of constant presence is something entirely remarkable, something that cannot be said about Jews in England, France, Germany, Austria or parts of Italy and certainly not Spain".