It was the result of many years of research and the collective passion of a large group of people in love with the military past of the Białystok region and the society of the Białystok region, wishing to document the armed struggles of ancestors, from the beginning of the Polish state until the period independence fights after the end of World War II in the years 1945–1956.

This exhibition presents the Podlasie episodes of World War II.September 1939 - the first diorama is a life-size slice of a Polish trench from the September campaign.

Another mannequin presents a grenadier from the 286th Infantry Division in winter uniform during fights on the Narew line; Lusatia 1945 - another diorama presents the 9th Dresden Infantry Division, organized in Bialystok, which took part in the Battle of Bautzen (1945), one of the bloodiest in which the Polish Army fought during the war, Independence underground - the last diorama presents an episode of World War II history so far absent from the exhibition at the Army Museum, namely the post-war independence underground.

The radio plays contain accounts of participants in war events, while they are read by well-known Polish actors.

Numerous info kiosks contain exhibit descriptions, historical information, accounts, memories and multimedia.

The exhibition shows the evolution of the uniforms and equipment of the Polish Army in the second half of the twentieth century.

The Polish Army exhibition 1956-2010 was arranged for the scenery of a military warehouse with concrete walls with visible formwork imprints and cable bundles.