museum – Cyfrowi humaniści / Digital humanists

German-Belorussian-Lithuanian relationships

agakud — Tue, 25 Mar 2014 13:19:00 +0000

Looking for ideas of scientific excursions? I recommend you to go to Lithuania. I took part on the excursion for German, Lithuanian and Belorussian students „Lithuania During a Period of The Two World Wars“ (05.10.2014 – 17.05.2014, Vilnius and Kaunas, Lithuania), organised in cooperation with the Vilnius University and European Humanities University.

Here you can get to know our seminar’s programme, so you can organise it for you and your group.
Day 1. Ariival to Vilnius. Free day in Vilnius. Introduction to the city.

Day 2. Older History of Lithuania and it’s importance for Lithuanian national Identity: Grand Duke Gediminas monument and a monument of Polish – Lithuanian poet Adam Mickiewicz.

Day 3. Polishness and Lithuanianness in the beginning of the XX century: Rasos cementary and memorial house of composer and painter Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis.

Day 4. Excursion to Kaunas – Kaunas during the Interwar period – a temporary capital of Lithuania, XIX Fort of Kaunas, interwar architecture and monuments in the relation to Lithuanian national identity.

Day 5. Jewish Vilnius and the Holocaust: Center of Tolerance, former Jewish ghettos, Museum of Holocaust. Discussion with some people who were born in ghetto and managed to survive.

Day 6. Memorable places in the surroundings of Vilnius: Paneriai memorial place and the old Capital – Trakai.

Day 7. Occupation regimes repressions and resistance: Lithuanian occupations during and after the Second World War – Museum of Genocide Victims.

Memory places of Kraków

agakud — Mon, 20 May 2013 15:52:00 +0000

I helped to conduct the seminar about history of and memory places in Kraków (13-19 May 2013) of Prof. Jürgen Angelow and (this time) Prof. Zdzisław Noga. The participants were students of the Freie Universität Berlin und Pedagogical University in Krakow. The topics of speeches were related as always to historical places (monuments, public places, churches etc.).

The development of the seminar’s concept and the seminar organistation were very important to me since my Ph.D is dedicated L’viv’s remembrance from 1867 till 1939.

Beside that I gave a speech on the every day life in Nowa Huta, relations between inhabitants of Nowa Huta and Kraków and the museum concept of Nowa Huta (ecomuseum), which was also an interesting experience.

Polish Eastern Borderland in Węgliniec

agakud — Sun, 03 Jun 2012 16:03:00 +0000

Commemoration of an expulsion can help to overcome the trauma of expelled. This is the case with the Museum of the Polish Eastern Borderland in Węgliniec, which I visited. The history of the Museum you can read and see here. It’s of course a very emotional and not professional museum, but it’s interesting to see and to listen what the whole equipment, documents and photos mean for the museum’s founder Alfred Janicki.

Janicki deals with emotions of the visitors very instrumentally. He even makes them want to cry. Unfortunatelly he also seems to own the the whole equipment, documents and photos. He works now for the city library, so hopefully the things will be later taken over by the library.

Vienna – city as museum

agakud — Thu, 19 Oct 2006 22:32:00 +0000

In October 2006 I took part on a seminar Vienna – city as museum. Fin de Siecle of Vienna.

Is the church a work of art or not?

Both a work of art and not a work of art. The opinion depends on premises.