01.04.2022 / Activities, News, The Heritage Interpretation Centre, The Praga Museum of Warsaw
Multicultural Museum
Multicultural Museum is an international conference in Warsaw.
Dates: 9-10.05.2022
Location: The Praga Museum of Warsaw (Muzeum Warszawskiej Pragi), 50/52 Targowa Street, 03-733 Warsaw
Organiser: Museum of Warsaw (Muzeum Warszawy)
Partners: l’Institut français de Pologne, Embassy of Netherlands in Poland, British Council, Instituto Cervantes, Goethe-Institut Warschau, Credit Agricole
How can we build the happiest multicultural society possible using cultural tools and integrational potential of museums? What is their role in helping city dwellers of all types feel at home in local societies, especially in such a difficult context as war in Ukraine?
Multicultural Museum is a two days long meeting of people creating cultural institutions engaged in working with multicultural local communities and public not involved in cultural sector in different cities and countries.
Museums can change quality of life of local communities of all types. Let’s find a good and practical answer to a question how to do it in a good and responsible way in the XXI century and how to develop the commitment of museums in the social field (policy towards the public of immigrant origin and disadvantaged or far from culture).
REGISTRATION
Register till April 27th (11:59 PM) and take part in our conference! Fill in the form.
We will come back to you (e-mail) on Friday, April 29th.
You can take part in the 1st day or in the 1st and the 2nd day of our conference. You can not take part only in the 2nd day.
Please remember that the 2nd day will be held in Polish only, while the 1st day of the conference will be in English and Polish.
We hope to see you during our conference, but we have a limited space and we will not be able to invite everyone for the live event. But don’t worry, we are planning an online transmission, so we hope you will be with us live or online.
Conference program
Conference in English and Polish with simultaneous translations English-Polish and French-Polish, French-English.
International Day
Warsaw Round Table
International Day
9:30 a.m. | Registration
10:00 a.m. | Opening, Karolina Ziębińska-Lewandowska, director of Museum of Warsaw, Artur Jóźwik, Director of the Culture Department, City of Warsaw
10:10 a.m. | Presentation of Museum of Warsaw projects, Katarzyna Žák-Caplot, Museum of Warsaw (presentation in English, simultaneous translation into Polish)
10:30 a.m. – 11:25 a.m. | Museums, Immigrants, and Social Justice, Professor Sofia Labadi (lecture online + question and answer session)
Professor Sophia Labadi is an international consultant and an award-winning Professor of Heritage at the University of Kent. She regularly acts as a consultant on heritage projects and policy making for international organisations (e.g. UNESCO, the World Bank) and governments. She is a co-author or co-editor of 11 books and over 50 peer-reviewed journal articles and book chapters. An author of „Museums, Immigrants, and Social Justice” (Routledge, 2017). sophialabadi.com
11:25 a.m. | Social engagement of museums
Presentations of museums that work on their collections and regular programme and have an intense programme in social field (45 min. presentation + questions and answer session after each) translations / live presentations in English/French + online screening and transmission (with a Polish/English translation)
11:25 a.m. – 12:25 p.m. | France, Mucem, Director Jean-François Chougnet (presentation in English/French, simultaneous translation into Polish and English) mucem.org
12:25 p.m. – 13:25 p.m. | Germany, Historical Museum in Frankfurt, Susanne Gesser (presentation in English, simultaneous translation into Polish) historisches-museum-frankfurt.de
13:25 p.m. | Lunch
14:10 p.m. – 15:10 p.m. | Spain, Museo Reina Sofia, Madrid, Deputy director Mabel Tapia (presentation in English, simultaneous translation into Polish) museoreinasofia.es
15:10 p.m. – 16:10 p.m. | Netherlands, Stichting Wijkcollectie (District Heritage Foundation), Museum Rotterdam, Nicole van Dijk (presentation in English, simultaneous translation into Polish) museumrotterdam.nl
16:10 p.m. | Coffee break
16:30 p.m. – 17:20 p.m. | Museum as a multicultural social spot: The Queens Museum, New York, Adrianne Koteen (lecture online + question and answer session, presentation in English, simultaneous translation into Polish) queensmuseum.org
Warsaw Round Table
10:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. | Poland: presentation of practices of Warsaw museums in the field of multicultural local identity and engagement and of Warsaw NGOs working with multicultural local communities
12:00 p.m. | Lunch
12:45 p.m. – 16:00 p.m. | Workshop
Warsaw museums have a big role to play in the process of integrating multicultural Warsaw society. What can Warsaw institutions and cultural policies do to play it in an attractive and responsible way?
The Warsaw Round Table will provide a possibility of a deeper insight into possibilities and duties that Warsaw museums have in this context. The cooperation brought to life during this session will be continued later on.
Participants:
- Aldona Machnowska-Góra, Deputy Mayor of Warsaw,
- representatives of Museum of Warsaw,
- Artur Jóźwik, Director of the Culture Department, City of Warsaw,
- other representatives of the Culture Department,
- Warsaw NGOs, Warsaw Museums,
- migrants.