They don't advertise brand names or restaurants like the Neon Signs of America.

They were mostly stylized ways to let people know where they'd find venues like theaters or appliances for sale.

These relics of the Cold War era caught the eye of a British graphic designer who was vacationing in Poland in 2005.

His efforts to preserve history led to Europe's first Neon museum.

This is the Neon Museum in Warsaw, Poland.

Neon signs in the West, of course, there about the free market.

These are different.

After the death of Stalin in 1953 repression and censorship eased across the Soviet bloc.

Poland launched Onion Ization campaign to capture some of the glamour of Western cities.

They hired the best designers to beautify the country.

The authorities used neon to placate to bamboozle the local populations into believing that all was good.

These were sensitively created for the local environments, for the public, for the people, no brands, no logos, just symbols on Bcom statements after communism fell in the early 19 nineties, authorities dismantled the neon lights as highlighted in Eric Bednarski is film Neon.

The Neon Museum in Warsaw celebrates what's left behind.

I think we have something like 250 neon signs in total.

They seem toe flood into our collection on Daryl donations.

We lose so much of our urban history without noticing on as an outsider, as a foreigner with fresh eyes, I could see that you know, there was something here that was being taken down, demolished, removed.

There is nostalgia from perhaps the older generation.

Today's generation are much more visually oriented.

Think people here for the history, the design on the aesthetic.