Scientific conference “Museums for musical tradition. Instruments in collections and in practice” — October 22, 2026

On Thursday, October 22, 202r in the Scientific and Conference Center of the Museum of Folk Musical Instruments in Szydłowiec will be held a scientific conference “Museums for musical tradition. Instruments in collections and in practice”.

Conference program

10:00 — 11:00 OPENING OF THE CONFERENCE

Introductory papers of the Museum of Folk Musical Instruments in Szydłowiec

• Dr. Aneta Oborny, Director of the Museum of Folk Musical Instruments in Szydłowiec, certified curator

• Exhibitions of the Museum of Folk Musical Instruments in Szydłowiec. Evolving towards integration

• cognitive-sensory. New concepts, new perspectives

• Marcelina Kozubal-Szymbara, MSc, Head of the Department of Folk Musical Instruments

• Museum as a space of living tradition. National Competition for the Construction of Folk Instruments

• Musicals in operation of the Museum of Folk Musical Instruments in Szydłowiec

• Dagmara Kostrzewa, museum assistant, Department of Folk Musical Instruments

• Protection and preservation of the heritage of folk culture: film registration of the builders' workshop

• instruments in the context of the mission of the Museum of Folk Musical Instruments in Szydłowiec

11:00 — 12:00 SESSION ONE

• Anna Gruszczyńska-Ziółkowska, PhD, Professor UW, Institute of Musicology, University of Warsaw

• Two words about archaeological instruments and their creators

• Dorota Popławska, PhD, Kacper Siejkowski, M.Sc., G. Bacewicz School of Music in Warsaw, University

• Jagiellonian

• 15th-century one-handed pipe from Cracow

• Mgr Kacper Siejkowski, Doctoral School of Humanities, Jagiellonian University

• Aerophones in Polish archaeological collections. From the monument to the reconstruction of sound

12:00 — 12:15 Coffee break

12:15 — 13:15 SECOND SESSION

• Dr. Magdalena Kwiecińska, certified curator, Dr. Tytus Chałubiński Tatra Museum in Zakopane

• Duet instruments in the collection of the Tatra Museum — reinventorization, elaboration and dissemination

• Eugen Baryshnikau, researcher of the project “Historical and Ethnographic Study of Belarusian Bagpipes”, University

• Wroclaw

• Representation of Belarusian-Lithuanian bagpipes in museums and exhibitions of the XIX-XXI century. Specificity and problems

• Rafał Miśta, MSc, IT specialist in the field of database management of the Archaeological Atlas of Małopolska, Museum

• Archaeological in Cracow

• Digital sharing of museum collections and scientific research — an example of bagpipe organology research

13:15 — 14:00 Lunch break

14:00 — 16:00 THIRD SESSION

• Urszula Bizunowicz, MSc, Senior Museum Assistant, Historical Museum of the City of Krakow

• Musical instruments in the collections of the Museum of Krakow between collecting and protecting

• the musical heritage of the city

• Leopold Sułkowski-Kornaus, acoustics specialist, Museum of Romanticism in Opinogóra

• Pianos — instruments and exhibits in the Museum of Romanticism in Opinogóra

• Maria Szymańska-Ilnata, PhD, Certified Curator, Museum of Asia and the Pacific in Warsaw

• Exhibitions of musical instruments as a means of comprehensive presentation of the world's musical cultures

• Agata Krajewska-Mikosz, PhD, Assistant Professor, Ethnomusicology Laboratory of the Institute of Art of the Polish Academy of Sciences

• Glass aerophones in metallurgical communities, museum collections and archival resources

• Ewelina Grygier, PhD, Assistant Professor, Institute of Musicology, University of Warsaw

• Six-hole pipes in Poland in the 21st century. Instruments and Builders

16:00 — Visiting the exposition of the Museum of Folk Musical Instruments in Szydłowiec (Castle in Szydłowiec, ul. gen. J. Sowińskiego 2)