Non-obvious Wrocław – from Colonial Museum Collections to Forgotten Cemeteries

Art historian and museologist. She studied in Wrocław, Warsaw, and Frankfurt (Oder). She is the author and co-author of books, scholarly articles, and entries for catalogues, lexicons, and encyclopedias. She is also the co-author of collection and exhibition catalogues. She is the Vice-President of the Association of University Museums and a member of the Association of Art Historians, the Association of Polish Museologists, and the Historische Kommission für Schlesien. She is interested in the history of art and culture around 1800 and the history of Wrocław museology. She currently works at the University of Wrocław Museum, where she researches university collections.

OLIWIA BOSOMTWE (1991): author of the book "Like a White Man: A Tale of Poles and Others" (W.A.B. 2024), which describes Polish notions of Blackness and the experiences of Black Poles, presented in exhibitions in New York and Brussels. She is interested in the history of Polish relations with Blackness and Sub-Saharan Africa. She writes, leads meetings, and curates exhibitions. She graduated from the Inter-Faculty Individual Humanities Studies program at the University of Warsaw. She is working on her doctorate in sociology at SWPS University. She was the editor-in-chief of the website Noizz.pl. She collaborates with the monthly "Znak," among others.

Assistant Professor at the Gallery of 12th-15th Century Art at the National Museum in Wrocław, PhD candidate in the Full-time Doctoral Studies in Cultural Studies at the University of Wrocław. Member of ICOM Poland. Author of numerous scholarly and popular science articles. Head of a grant dedicated to researching archival materials relating to the medieval art collection of the National Museum in Wrocław. Research interests: late Gothic sculpture in Silesia, medieval piety and devotion, and provenance research. Her other areas of interest include the history of German ethnology and decolonization. She conducts research on non-European art in Breslau, with particular emphasis on the collections of the Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography in pre-war Wrocław. Co-curator of the exhibition "Entangled".

Institute of Cultural Studies, University of Wrocław. A cultural studies scholar, she holds a postdoctoral degree and is a professor at the Institute of Cultural Studies, University of Wrocław, and a member of the Committee on Cultural Studies of the Polish Academy of Sciences. She conducts research in the fields of object studies and collecting, sound studies, and soundscape studies. She is interested in the condition of contemporary humanities and emerging areas of humanities research. She is a member of the research teams of the Soundscape Research Workshop and the Laboratory of Contemporary Humanities. She is the author of the monographs Ars colligendi: Collecting as a Form of Cultural Activity (Wrocław 2011) and Collection – Memory – Identity: Studies on Collecting (Wrocław 2018) and co-editor of the volumes Audiosfera: Studies (Wrocław 2016) and Sounds of War and Peace: Soundscapes of European Cities in 1945 (Berlin 2018).

A native of Lower Silesia, he holds a PhD in literary studies. He has been a passionate animal and nature activist for almost twenty years. He collaborates with the monthly "Dzikie Życie" and the "Pracownia na rzecz Wszystkich Istot" Association. For four years, he has also been reading stories from tombstones. He is a co-founder of the "Spod Ziemi Patrzy Breslau" initiative, which examines the remains of former Wrocław cemeteries.

Jagiellonian University – Jagiellonian University Museum. Doctor of Cultural and Religious Studies, Master of Laws. Deputy Director of the Jagiellonian University Museum in Kraków. Member of the Rector's Commission for the Heritage of the Jagiellonian University and the Jagiellonian University Medical College. For years, she has also collaborated within a network of European consortia, including as a member of UMAC, the Coimbra Heritage Working Group, Universeum, and the UNA Europa alliance. Her research focuses on the protection of museum collections, their status, and the specific nature of university collections as part of academic heritage.