Urodziny Ignacego Kriegera – podsumowanie i wnioski

Abstract

IGNACY KRIEGER’S BIRTHDAY – SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS

The paper recapitulates on the projects organized as part of the museum event titled Ignacy Krieger’s Birthday (Urodziny Ignacego Kriegera) which commemorated the 200th anniversary of the photographer’s birth that fell in 2017. It contains a detailed description of the programme of celebrations which included mostly various educational activities (e.g. lectures, an urban game, an educational walk, children’s workshops), as well as undertakings through which the gure of Ignacy Krieger was immortalized in the city’s space, such as the naming of one of Kraków’s streets after him, or the unveiling of a commemorative plaque on the elevation of Boner House where Krieger’s atelier used to be located. A lot of space has been dedicated to the Long Night of Museums in the course of which the climax of the birthday festivities took place.
The museum event discussed in this paper was an important step in the process of popularizing knowledge about the gure of Ignacy Krieger and the collection of glass plates from his studio. Apart from its reporting section, the paper also oers an attempt at an evaluation of the actions undertaken in the context of the current Strategy for the Museum of Kraków and the role of educational activity in the work of a museum institution.