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"Muzealnictwo", Redakcja

Muzealnictwo

2020

vol. 61

1-1

Dear Readers, The ‘Muzealnictwo’ Annual has been published uninterruptedly since 1952, trying to reflect the major events in the social life of the museological community, to always remain updated with the latest academic trends, to follow the occurring changes, and, in some cases, even to anticipate them thoughtfully and reflexively. 2020 is a unique year: despite the unordinary circumstances caused by the SARS-CoV-19 pandemic, the Editorial Team of ‘Muzealnictwo’ have been working without any breaks. Meanwhile the changes that are affecting museum operations will definitely have an impact on museums’ shape in the future and will be commented on in its next year’s edition, this allowing to apply the suitable time perspective necessary for an academic journal. In this year’s volume we would like to tackle museum’s everyday issues that are the essence of their work, but also some fundamental ones. One of them having been discussed during the 2019 ICOM General Conference in Kyoto, namely the NEW MUSEUM DEFINITION. The section bearing this very title will provide our Readers with papers showing both historic definitions of museum and its redefinitions, analyses of the transformations in museology of the second half of the twentieth century which form the core of the new definition of the concept, as well as testimony to the statements made on the topic by outstanding Polish museum professionals and experts in legal heritage protection, as well as their international counterparts. As always, this overview will serve as an invitation to shared reflection on the topic of great importance for museology; the debate as yet has not been finished and has been stirring all museum-related circles, resounding widely, since it relates to the elementary issues. In the year-to-year effort the ‘Muzealnictwo’ Editorial Team have been trying to embrace increasingly more of the world outside Poland. We have been making an effort to include papers by international authors and reviews by foreign scholars in order to more dynamically locate our journal within the stream of international academic debates. Despite the extraordinary circumstances, we are trying hard to maintain the so-far format of our regular thematic sections, presenting within them both the most recent research dedicated to their respective areas, as well as referring to the already existing studies and publications. Our ambition is the keep the ‘Muzealnictwo’ Annual an interesting and enlightening source of knowledge, a platform for sharing ideas, contribution to broader debates, as well as an inspiration for practical solutions, and a source of answers to difficult questions. Editorial Team of the ‘Muzealnictwo’ Annual

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"Muzealnictwo", Redakcja

Muzealnictwo

2019

vol. 60

1-1

If we want to describe the surrounding reality, while at the same time trying to grasp the best key to it, it seems that the word “change” is the most appropriate. Museums rank among that category of culture institutions which, while undergoing changes, and caring for their own institutional and axiological autonomy, attempt at the same time to influence the very changes; this, however, makes them face identity dilemmas, the necessity to find the right balance between the responsibilities that are sometimes referred to as “traditional ones”, namely the ones they have towards the collections, and the obligations commonly regarded to be an attribute of “modernity”, these towards the public in the variety of their impressive turnout growth and the increase of their expectations. The way to stabilize change effects, while at the same to stimulate them, also with respect to the closest editing of the museum Annual, are legislative efforts and bills. One could even be tempted to make the statement, this not fully irony-free, that the history of Polish museology is actually the history of implemented and unimplemented legislative projects (the latter dominating), of the attempts to define the position of museums in the context of the synergically perceived “cultural legacy”, of finding for them the appropriate governance model, without rejecting the above-mentioned identity dilemmas. The goal of the “Muzealnictwo” Annual No. 60 is to present an overview of the past and current trials to amend the “Museum Act”, to identify areas for essential corrections, reasons for negligence, yet first and foremost, difficulties in applying them to the culture domain in which the most frequently applied word next to “change” (and most highly appreciated by museum circles) is the word “specificity”. This overview will hopefully contribute to the reflection on the capacity of institutional operating under the circumstances in which the inadequacy between the letter of the law and its enforcement can be observed. Next to the theme that is key to the present issue of the “Muzealnictwo” Annual, you will find the well established and known sections describing the spheres of museum operations, these occurring regardless of the lapse of time and their legislative creations. This year’s issue is at the same time the last one whose preparation was contributed to by Dariusz Kacprzak PhD, since 2009 member of the Editorial Board of the ‘Muzealnictwo’ Annual, and since the National Institute for Museums and Public Collections became its Publisher, he has been Deputy Editor-in-Chief. On behalf of the Editorial Board and the Publisher, I would like to extend my gratitude to Dr Dariusz Kacprzak for co-creating the annual whose importance will be assessed for yet subsequent generations of Polish museologists. Piotr Majewski Professor at the Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński University in Warsaw Editor-in-Chief

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