The Biuletyn Informacyjny Zarządu Muzeów i Ochrony Zabytków Bulletin, 1955–1987

• Authors: Michał Niezabitowski

Abstracts

EN

In 1955–1987, the Directorate of Museums and Monument Preservation (until 1959: Central Directorate of Museums and Monument Preservation), a structural unit of the Ministry of Culture and Art, published Biuletyn Informacyjny, a bulletin dedicated to documenting the activity of museums in Poland. In 1955-1959, it was called Biuletyn Informacyjny Centralnego Zarządu Muzeów i Ochrony Zabytków, while in 1959–1987, it was published under the name Biuletyn Informacyjny Zarządu Muzeów i Ochrony Zabytków. It was published as a bimonthly or a quarterly with a limited circulation (400–600 copies), and was delivered to museums. The following served as its subsequent Editors-in-Chief: Mieczysław Ptaśnik (until 1972), Stanisław Brzostowski (until 1976), and Franciszek Midura (until 1987). The core content of the publication covered short factual information reporting on definite achievements of particular museums or Minister’s initiatives, as well as longer papers authored in their majority by the Editorial Staff and museum curators who submitted their materials. Informative texts were included in the sections whose names altered. The most important of them were as follows: I. ‘Research and Academic Discoveries’, II. ‘Publications’, III. ‘Exhibitions’, IV. ‘New Acquisitions’, V. ‘Educational Actions’, VI. ‘Conservation Works’, VII. ’Foreign Cooperation’, VIII. ‘Foreign Museums’, IX. ‘Conferences’, X. ‘Communiqués’, XI. ‘Papers’. Despite bearing features of a journal published under the ideological and political control of the Communist regime, the Biuletyn Informacyjny Zarządu Muzeów i Ochrony Zabytków bulletin essentially constitutes a reliable source for the history of Polish museology in 1955-1987.

Keywords

EN

Biuletyn Informacyjny Zarządu Muzeów i Ochrony Zabytków; journal; Kazimierz Malinowski; Mieczysław Ptaśnik; Stanisław Brzostowski; museums; museology; Editorial Staff; Directorate of Museums and Monument Preservation

• Publisher: Krajowy Ośrodek Badań i Dokumentacji Zabytków
• Journal: Muzealnictwo
• Year: 2023
• Volume: 64
• Pages: 163-169

Dates

published

2023

Contributors

author

Michał Niezabitowski

• Institute of History and Archive Studies at the University of the National Education Commission
• Museum of Krakow

Identifiers

Biblioteka Nauki

27730274