Prowadzenie placówki muzealnej w czasie CoVID-19. Casus Izby Regionalnej w Wejsunach
Running a museum during COVID-19. The case of the Regional Chamber in Wejsuny

Summary/Abstract: The aim of the article is twofold: to describe the history of the Regional Chamber in Wejsuny, dividing its activity into two periods, and to present the person of its creator -Eugeniusz Bielawski. On September 14, 1974, three years after its opening, the ownership of the Chamber was transferred to the commune by a notarial deed. Currently it houses many exhibits, including old household tools, cantional books, trunks, and furniture. In 2020, the chamber was reopened after a break of more than thirty years. The article describes the activities of the "new" Chamber, which largely coincided with the pandemic. Taking these circumstances into account, the author examines how the epidemic affected the functioning of this village museum. In this connection, she analyzed the portrayal of the activities of the institution in, among others, the publications about the chamber in the regional press (press content analysis) and scrutinized the main communication channel used by the museum curator (Virtual Regional Chamber, Wirtualna Izba Regionalna, Facebook profile - content analysis). The main purpose of the undertaken analyses is categorization of the content posted on the virtual profile of this cultural institution, evaluation of the multimedia nature of this content, an attempt to select the most popular materials, as well as checking whether and how web users respond to the posted messages. The author, using a variety of instruments, analyzes the main communication channelused by the curator of the museum (Wirtualna Izba Regionalna profile on Facebook) and describes the media activity of the institution with a view to popularizing the knowledge aboutthe Chamber in the regional media. For this purpose, she uses unpublished fragments of diaries kept by the founder of the village museum in Wejsuny.

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