The Museum and Museum Book Salon at the Katowice Book Fair

This year’s Katowice Book Fair will take place in an expanded format.

The rich program will feature (known from last year’s edition) The Science Encounters – a sector presenting academic and scientific publishers’ offer with a program of meetings and The Literary Bridges 2024 project, which includes Salons of Ukrainian Publishers and Independent Belarusian Publishers, as well as meetings with Ukrainian and Belarusian authors. A new addition to this year’s fair will be The Museum and Museum Book Salon, presenting the offer and achievements of Polish museums, with special emphasis on museums from Silesia.

A new feature of this year’s edition – The Museum and Museum Book Salon it is a zone dedicated to the achievements and books published by Polish museums, with a special focus on those from the Silesian region. In the collective exhibition booth, publications from Silesian museums will be available. Participating institutions include the “Upper Silesian Ethnographic Park in Chorzów,” the Museum in Tarnowskie Góry, the Saturn Museum in Czeladź, the Municipal Museum in Żory, the History Museum of Katowice, the Castle Museum in Pszczyna, the Metallurgy Museum in Chorzów, the Museum of Silesian Uprisings in Świętochłowice, Father E. Drobny Museum in Rybnik, the Museum of Cieszyn Silesia, the Museum in Bielsko-Biała, the Museum of the City of Jaworzno, The Maksymilian Chrobok Municipal Museum in Ruda Śląska, the Schoena Palace Museum in Sosnowiec, the Municipal Museum in Tychy, the Silesian Museum in Katowice, the Central Firefighting Museum in Siemianowice Śląskie, Sztygarka Municipal Museum in Dąbrowa Górnicza, Maksymilian Chrobok Municipal Museum in Ruda Śląska.

Moreover, the program will include educational museum lessons for young people and panel discussions for museum professionals as part of a professional exchange of experiences. To reach a wider audience, lessons and lectures will be recorded and available on the Foundation’s YouTube channel. The partner of The Museum and Museum Book Salon is the Polish Association of Museum Professionals, Silesian Branch, and the National Institute for Museums.

“The Museum and Museum Book Salon” at the Book Fair in Katowice is investment A2.5.1: Program supporting the activities of entities in the culture sector and creative industries to stimulate their development, implemented under the component: Resilience and competitiveness of the economy, carried out as part of the development plan (KPO).