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Pilecki Family House Museum — Youth Council

A museum is more than just a place where walls filled with text, photographs, and audio recordings tell a story, important as those may be. It’s also a space for events, especially those geared toward young people – and who knows better what’s trendy than the young people themselves?

The Advisory Council of the Museum

Who are the council members?

They are high school students recruited from across the country. The council consists of a permanent group that works together over the course of two years, meeting both in person in Ostrów Mazowiecka and online. (Members from outside Ostrów County are reimbursed for travel expenses and provided with accommodations, including for a guardian if they are underage).

 

What does the council do?

It takes part in the life of the museum, as its council members become a part of the museum team, in particular as:

  • – The museum team consults the council members on ideas for projects geared towards young people
  • – The most important events are organised in collaboration with the museum team, with the council helping to run the events and also planning their own using the museum’s resources.

 

What did the 1st term of the youth council accomplish?

  • -The council members were the first to test the Quest outdoor games in Ostrów Mazowiecka, giving them an insider’s perspective on the development of the educational workshops. They also participated in planning events for the museum’s official opening (including proposing the idea of a special “opening” for schools under the patronage of Captain Witold Pilecki).
  • – During the opening of the permanent exhibition, the council assisted with hosting key guests and led the opening gala. For two Captain’s Holidays, they helped with promotion and event planning. They also guided tours of the temporary exhibitions, launched the Quest premiere, and ran their own independently created game, “Museum Secrets.” At the annual meetup of schools under the patronage of Captain Witold Pilecki, the council led a program for the visiting students. Alongside museum staff, the council represented the museum at national celebrations. During the Historical Event of the Year plebiscite, they actively encouraged voting participation, and a council member later received the award, representing the museum at the gala.
  • – he Council ran two editions of the “Easter in the Pilecki House” competition and prepared their own museum game “Museum Secrets”, which they subsequently ran multiple times with different groups.
The 1st term of the Youth Council 2022-24 was comprised of:

Chairman:

Dawid Tubacki

 

Vice Chairman:

Oliwia Dziełak

 

Secretary:

Magdalena Ościłowska

 

Council Members:
Natalia Brzostek
Hubert Kraska
Alicja Kusy
Michał Kusy
Julia Lewandowska
Dominik Tkaczewski

Mateusz Ziemczyk

 

Stepped down from the council before their term was complete:

Mateusz Brzózka

Kamil Świątkowski

Tomasz Ziemak

The 2nd term of the Youth Council in the years 2024-2026 is comprised of:

Chairman:

Michalina Nowicka

 

Vice Chairman:

Weronika Szyszkowska

 

Secretaries:

Zofia Dudek i Wiktor Mierzejewski

 

Council Members:

Wiktoria Puławska

Magdalena Rybińska

Maksymilian Kiełbik
Cezary Jankowski
Maja Walentynowicz

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Project coordinator:

Zdjęcie Karolina Kolbuszewska
Karolina Kolbuszewska

Museum Director

Museum director since 1/12/2023.

 

Achieved an MA in Sociology at the Institute of Applied Social Sciences of the University of Warsaw. For many years involved with the Institute of National Remembrance, where she led projects related to the popularisation of history (General Stefan Rowecki “Grota” historical clubs) and education.
Coordinator, co-organiser and author of many educational projects for various target groups, including the IPN Historical Debate Tournament (for high school, Polish diaspora and university students, as well as a public debate for blind and visually impaired students), “I see faces, not numbers” literary picture of totalitarian crimes, and Police in Service of History. In 2019-2021 she worked in the project department of the Pilecki Institute with programs such as Called by Name and Virtus et Fraternitas, and also created the AD VOCEM Pilecki Institute Debates project, and co-created the educational project “Pilecki’s Fives”.

Active as the historical-educational department manager and chief archivist at the Pilecki Family House Museum; acting director since 1/04/2023 and director since 1/12/2023. Author and co-author of many projects at the museum; co-creator of the museum educational workshops centred around the permanent exhibition and workshops for groups with intellectual disabilities. Coordinator of the Museum Youth Council.

For 20 years an instructor at the Scouting Association of the Republic of Poland, scoutmaster, commander of the Masovian Scout District (2006-2008), author of the regulations for Girl Scout ranks; member of the Management Board (2012–2014). Since 2020, a member of the board of the Educational Projects Foundation, where, among others, created and conducted the History on the Road project. Member of the Museum Educator Forum Association.

Awarded the Pro Patria medal by the Office for War Veterans and Victims of Oppression, the medal “For Merits to the Association” by the Warsaw branch of the Police Family Association of 1939, and the Golden Honorary Cross of the Piłsudski Union of the Republic of Poland.

 

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