THE EUROPEAN NIGHT OF MUSEUMS IN WARSAW – A RESEARCH COMMENTARY
THE EUROPEAN NIGHT OF MUSEUMS IN WARSAW – A RESEARCH COMMENTARY

Summary/Abstract: The team of the Research Laboratory of the Polish Measurement of Attitudes and Values (PPPiW)already for the fourth time measured the participation in the European Night of Museums in Warsaw. Theresearch was conducted during the night of 16th to 17th of May 2015. The sample was N = 1,102 respon-dents varied in terms of gender, age, education, place of residence and income. 20 museums, located indifferent districts, were selected for the research, which enabled the spatial stratification of the sample.The research commentary refers to the following issues of communing with culture: the frequency ofreaching for the sources of knowledge about it, the frequency of visiting facilities being its vehicle, andreadership. At the same time, it needs to be said that participation in culture refers mainly to its passiveconsumption, namely by means of the cinema and television. Therefore, the source of knowledge about artlies in the image which supersedes the traditional role of text. Participation in culture becomes a characteris-tic feature of more and more narrow, elite social group. Participation in high culture to a greater and greaterextent becomes the measure of social distances. It leads to the deepening of socio-cultural distances betweenthe groups with higher positions and less educated social groups, also between the residents of cities andvillages

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