Holistic Heritage

The Danubiana Meulensteen Art Museum , located on a peninsula on the Danube in the vicinity of the Slovak capital of Bratislava, is one of the most stunning places created specifically for modern and contemporary art in...

For this episode of On The Road, we are in the Bulgarian Valley of the Roses and the town of Kazanlak to find out more about rose production. John Beauchamp and Katarzyna Jagodzińska visit Kazanlak, where they meet...

An ensemble of sculptures in the Romanian city of Târgu Jiu by renowned artist Constantin Brâncuși is now on the UNESCO Heritage List. For this episode of Holistic Heritage, John Beauchamp and Dr Katarzyna Jagodzińska...

Muzeum Sztuki (literally “Art Museum” in Polish) is one of the first contemporary art museums in the world, and was conceived by renowned artist Władysław Strzemiński and created thank to the grassroots collection of...

For this episode of Holistic Heritage, we meet the team at the Europa Nostra Heritage Hub for Central and Eastern Europe and take a look back at the first few years of the Kraków Hub and its activities. Hosted by John...

In this edition of Holistic Heritage, we speak to three heritage practitioners in Poland’s southern city of Kraków and what makes this city so special in terms of creating and running cultural heritage projects. Join...

Over the past couple of years, the research team at the Europa Nostra Heritage Hub in Kraków has been busy on creating a report on the non-governmental heritage sector in Central and Eastern Europe. “Mapping of the...

In this edition of Holistic Heritage, we are both in Kraków and further afield for the Małopolska Culture Heritage Days 2025, run by the Małopolska Cultural Institute , which this year won a European Heritage Award /...

What is a post-museum? Is museum participation really all that it’s geared up to be? How can museums – seen as gatekeepers of knowledge – really open up their collections and programming to the public? Or maybe they...

The latest mapping of the heritage NGO sector in Central and Eastern Europe , conducted by the Europa Nostra Heritage Hub in Kraków (to be published in June 2025), has shown that heritage practitioners and others...

Over recent decades, a lot of industry in the region of Silesia has shut down. While some plants and factories have been demolished, others have stood the test of time and are still standing, albeit having been adapted...

In this inaugural episode of Heritage Hour, we speak to leading experts on the preservation of Jewish heritage in Poland. We hear about the synagogue in Orla, in eastern Poland, and its submission to the 7 Most...

The bare concrete structure of a decommissioned power plant, part of the Arsenał Gallery in Białystok in north-eastern Poland, is the home to an exhibition by Augustas Serapinas , a Vilnius-based artist who is putting a...

Dan Perjovschi is a Romanian artist, writer and journalist whose simple cartoon-like drawings provoke and appeal to audiences the world over. His work is politically and socially engaging, and his exhibitions – which he...

It’s the first Thursday in December, and in the southern Polish city of Kraków a number of people have gathered around the Adam Mickiewicz monument on the Main Market Square for the annual nativity scene competition...