Museums and migrations

Submitted by Barbara Klassa on Fri, 04/24/2020 - 20:47
University
University of Gdańsk
Faculty/school/department
Faculty of History
Size of the team
number of researchers number of supporting staff number of PhD students
1
0
0
PI
PI name
Michalina Petelska
PI email
michalina.petelska@univ.gda.pl
PI bio

Dr Michalina Petelska is a historian and a museologist, in her works she shows Poland and Poles seen through the eyes of foreigners. She also studies emigration from Polish lands in the 19th and 20th centuries. In the years 2014 - 2016 she worked at the Emigration Museum in Gdynia. Dr Petelska cooperates with migration museums in various European countries and in Canada. A member of, among others, the Polish Association for Canadian Studies, the Association of Polish Museum Professionals and a correspondent member of the Polish-Skandinavisk Forskninginstitut.

orcid.org/0000-0002-7436-3280

Contact person and e-mail
Contact person
Michalina Petelska
Contact person e-mail
michalina.petelska@univ.gda.pl
Short description of research profile

emigration from Polish lands in the 19th and 20th centuries;

Polish-Scandinavian contacts;

Museology;

museum education;

Research area
HUMANITIES » History and archaeology
Scientific Themes (keywords)
Migrations museums
museum narative
Denmark
Georg Brandes
Scandinavian countries
Canada
Publications

Representative publications

Petelska Michalina, Blackmore Magdalena: Museums of migration: migrants' identity and implementing the museum’s mission statement – case studies from Poland and Canada, w: Museums and identities: planning an extended museum / Folga-Januszewska Dorota [i in.] (red.), Muzeologia , nr 20, 2019, ISBN 978-83-66104-22-8, ss. 125-135.
Petelska Michalina: Georg Brandes i Polacy czyli o fenomenie wzajemnego zainteresowania z Polską w tle, 2017, Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Gdańskiego, ISBN 978-83-7865-498-8, 344 s.
Reczyńska Anna, Drewniak Dagmara, Petelska Michalina: Poles in the Canadian mosaic: 150 years of history, 2017, Muzeum Emigracji, ISBN 978-83-65751-01-0, 160 s.