A meeting for the Conscious Youth Club

June 27, 2022, at  11:00-15:00, meeting with members of the Conscious Youth Club of the Autism Team foundation from Łódź and Włocławek.

moderated by: Communication Department, support: Education Department and Scientific Documentation Department of the Muzeum Sztuki in Łódź

On June 27, as part of the project "Digital Sharing of Resources of Muzeum Sztuki in Łódź", we organized another meeting for people who want to better learn about the subsequent stages of work on the content made available on the website zasoby.msl.org.pl. During the event, Katarzyna Mądrzycka-Adamczyk - from the Education Department of the Muzeum Sztuki in Łódź and Accessibility Coordinator of the MSŁ presented the possibilities of the portal, which we are gradually enriching with digitized archives and works of art. In the next step, Monika Cywińska and Wojciech Obniski - employees of the Scientific Documentation Department, invited the participants of the meeting to the digitization studio, where they will present methods of digitizing works of art using specific examples. The last attraction we prepared for our guests was a visit to Warehouse J, where Julianna Goździk from the Modern Art Collections Department and Leszek Karczewski and Marta Wlazeł (Education Department) talked about how to store works of art that are not presented at exhibitions.

The Muzeum Sztuki in Łódź is an institution researching and presenting avant-garde art and progressive artistic phenomena. The Museum, founded in 1930, is one of the oldest institutions still in existence collecting avant-garde art. The implemented program corresponds to the revolutionary project developed at the turn of the 1920s and 1930s by the a.r. group. Its members - Władysław Strzemiński, Katarzyna Kobro, Henryk Stażewski, Julian Przyboś and Jan Brzękowski - gave the newly established museum a gift in the form of a collection of modern art they had collected. Today, we share this gift with the Museum's guests: in real life at the premises and virtually via the portal zasoby.msl.org.pl.

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As part of the three-year implementation of the Digital Sharing of Resources of Muzeum Sztuki in Łódź project, 1,228 works will be finally digitized, of which 1,150 will be made available online. These will include both works of old art (60 objects) and modern art (990 objects), films from the collection (78 objects) as well as library materials (100 objects). 5,000 documents containing metadata about works will also be made available. In addition, a total of 300 films will be created in Polish Sign Language describing digitized museum objects in terms of their readability for deaf people, as well as the same number of descriptions in simplified Polish and pictograms describing digitized museum objects in a way that facilitates their perception for people with cognitive disorders. To meet the needs of visually impaired and blind people, the museum will create 300 audio descriptions of works. Moreover, each year of the project implementation, an educational and consultation meeting is organized for all people interested in using this content. The first one took place on June 20, 2021, the second one was planned for October 5, 2021.

Completion time: August 2020 - July 2023

Total value of the project: PLN 4,994,130.11 (gross) PLN 4,432,737.49 (net)

Contribution of European Funds: PLN 3,751,425.54 (net)

Project titled "Digital Sharing of Resources of Muzeum Sztuki in Łódź" is co-financed under Measure 2.3 Digital availability and usability of public sector information, sub-measure 2.3.2 Digital access to cultural resources, priority axis II E-administration and open government of the Digital Poland Operational Program.

Co-financed by the Minister of Culture and National Heritage. Amount of funding: PLN 679,359.96