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Małopolski Instytut Kultury

Rynek Główny 25
31-008 Kraków
tel. 012 422 18 84
fax 012 422 55 62
instytut@mik.krakow.pl
www.mik.krakow.pl

08.06.2005

Referring to your question about the person who deals with museum topics in MIK, I'd like to inform that one of MIK's projects is "Exhibition Dynamics". The project is addressed to regional gallery and museum personnel. Our assumption is that the museum is both a "teaching" and "learning" place, and a part of civic society. We organise seminars on the organisation of exhibition space, interactive aspects of exhibitions as well as meetings on developing and financing museum projects. This way we try to build a forum of exchanging experiences, and we offer an opportunity to get acquainted with new solutions. The coordinator of the project is Mrs. Joanna Hajduk.

If you need any further information, please let me know.
Best regards,
Agnieszka Szewczyk

 

 

Małopolski Instytut Kultury (MIK) in Kraków, which has been for the past three years an agency of the Małopolska Region authorities, redefines its activities in order to comprise the challenges facing the present-day culture. This operation requires a process of indispensable transformations leading to the development of an institution with modern structure and a programme adjusted to new reality. In its basic concept, the agency should be the organization:

 

• to inspire and initiate modern forms of managing cultural offerings in the Region,

• to support local cultural institutions in developing their own long-term projects,

• to build and disseminate scenarios of educating informed culture users,

• to initiate new paths of international co-operation between cultural institutions,

• to prepare and implement alternative forms of educating culture moderators.

 

Forms of Operation:

 

• consulting services regarding self-presentation, building new relationships with the audience and fundraising for cultural activities,

• assistance in initiating international contacts and search for partners to conduct joint projects,

• organisation of workshops and seminars requested by local culture-building circles.

 

Consequently, the new MIK programming formula updates the inherited traditions of the former Kraków Cultural Centre, characterised by developing space for the operation of cultural institutions and spreading cultural life.

 

The above-specified programme offerings of the MIK are meant for all cultural institutions, non-government organisations, including regional ones, and the residents of the Małopolska Region.

 

 

 

 

Activities of MIK within HERMES project will contain two modules, dedicated to:

 

1. Manor-house in Dołęga, branch of the Regional Museum in Tarnów

 

2. Skansen (open-air) museum of bee-keeping “Bartnik” in Stróże

 

 

Both sites are situated in the areas where a kind of social poverty and deficiency of the culture is observed, but also with huge, so far not employed potential. This is why initiative of this kind will have a real chance of improving quality of life of inhabitants and creating new attractive offers for wide range of recipients.

 

 

First case is a traditional Polish manor-house, unique because of its authenticity and mythical atmosphere that has been preserved there. The other case is a site presenting Slavonic traditions of bee-keeping (agricultural, craftsman and cultural heritage).

 

 

In both sites thinking of wise utilization of the potential already exists. HERMES and new technologies will help to go forward.

 

 

 

PROJECT

 

 

KEY WORDS:

 

promotion of cultural heritage with help of new technologies

 

revitalisation – new social function for cultural heritage

 

education

 

offers for active free time

 

local initiatives

 

innovative methods of social and cultural animation

 

 

 

MODULE I

 

 

Manor-house in Dołęga

 

 

1. Milestones:

 

• Educational packages for individual visits in the Manor-house and surroundings – June 2005

• Strong promotion of Dołęga’s new offer – June 2006 (additionally Manor-house in Dołęga was one of the sites that took part in the ‘Days of Cultural Heritage of Małopolska Region’ in June 2005)

• Summer workshop for students of architecture, history of art etc. combining work to museum’s advantage (e.g. simple renovation works) with intellectual work – June / July 2006

• Web Site start – July 2006

 

 

2. Outcomes

 

Educational packages for individual tours – materials/print-outs enabling independent, interactive exploration of the Manor-house and surroundings

Strong promotion of Dołęga’s new offer – special program, multimedia presentations, next educational packages (publications)

Summer workshop „Romanticism and romantics” Subject: romanticism in the past and today, fashion and customs, romantic reading, music, romantic cultural salon etc. Principle: a week of labour in the mornings combined with cultural workshops in the afternoons and evenings. Possibility of getting in touch and cooperating with cultural centres in Weimar ?

„Spatial” Web Site – beside basic information about the museum, also three-dimensional, interactive presentations of the museum’s space, news from Dołęga, cultural heritage and tourist routes/attractions in the neighbourhood, HERMES.

 

 

MODULE II

 

 

Skansen museum of bee-keeping „Bartnik”

 

 

1. Milestones:

 

• Cyclic thematic meetings/seminars for local society – start: autumn 2005

• Educational workshops addressed to various groups of recipients – May, June, November 2005; May, June 2006

• Multimedia presentation – November 2005

• Exposition of skansen museum rearranged – finish: April 2006

• Educational packages for individual tours – April 2006

 

• Web Site start – July 2006

• Promotion of the skansen museum – brochures – August 2006

 

 

2. Outcomes

 

Cyclic thematic meetings/seminars for local society Example topics: architecture of landscape, planning of public space interpretation of new law acts, regulations, advices on how to put them into practice meetings connected with traditional custom calendar history, culture, customs of the region medical advice, simple examinations garden arranging waste segregation   Those who will be most interested and involved will form a group that will take part in activities at „advanced level” (study on the region, elaborating information about particular villages, working with kids and youngsters from school circles of interest). In this way skansen museum can became a social centre gathering local society.

Educational workshops addressed to various groups of recipients, based on the anthropology of communication (model of bee-kingdom – model of society) Topics: "Building and running a state” "Fight for the throne of queen” "Communication in nature and in culture” "Bee in culture” Possibility of getting in touch and cooperating with Museum of Bee-keeping in Weimar ? In future skansen museum can start to perform vanguard functions in the region, working with handicapped and socially defavourised people.

Multimedia presentations for tourists and recipients of educational/social programs of the skansen museum.

Rearrangement of the exposition of skansen museum in order to build interactive ways of getting to recipients.

Educational packages for individual tours – materials/print-outs enabling independent, interactive exploration of skansen museum. Three kinds of packages: for adults, for children, for family (parent with young child).

„Spatial” Web Site – beside basic information about the skansen museum, also three-dimensional presentations of the museum’s space, interactive tasks, news from Stróże, cultural heritage and tourist routes/attractions in the neighbourhood, HERMES.

Promotion of the skansen museum – brochures

 

 

 

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