18-19 June, 2010 - Krakow

 

Conference “Between White Cube a Black Box – Curators’ Grey Reality?”-Jewish Museum Galicia, Krakow
The conference’s key objective was to induce a debate between specialists and all persons with interest in the issues of innovative museology and inventive curatorial solutions and to promote in the Polish context the theoretical reflection on contemporary museology that might inspire the newly-established facilities and provide them with some academic ideas.

Each day of the conference consisted of two parts:
- plenary session, in the course of which students and doctoral students presented their analyses of innovative museum and exhibition solutions, and
- expert panels, which gave the invited guests (including Mirosław Nizio, who spoke of the design of the Museum “The Gate to the Battle of Warsaw 1920”) an opportunity to present designs of the existing and currently built innovative museums in Poland.

Additionally, the conference was attended by staff members, curators, and designers from such institutions as:
Jewish Museum Galicia, Małopolski Cultural Institute, Museum of the History of Polish Jews, Warsaw Uprising Museum, Frederic Chopin’s Museum, Museum of the History of Poland, Tadeusz Kantor’s Museum, Ethnographic Museum in Krakow, and Katyń Museum.