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Do not touch? Re-imagining museums | Leszek Jodliński | TEDxKazimierz

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Channel: TEDx Talks · 2015 · Nonprofits & Activism

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Leszek Jodliński talks to TEDxKazimierz about how a museum director decided to make exhibits available to the partially sited and blind.

Art historian, civil servant (The National School of Public Administration), manager of cultural institutions; from 2002 to 2003 Director of the Polish Year in Austria; Director of the Museum in Gliwice (2003-2008) and the Silesian Museum in Katowice (2008-2013). Member of the boards of museums in Pless and Opava, as well as Project Katowice Experts Council 2016 European Capital of Culture and Malopolska's Virtual Museums (2009-2012); author of the project aiming to make Polish painting galleries accessible to the blind (awarded in the Silesian Thing 2011 contest), initiatior and co-author of the rejected historical exhibition of Upper Silesia (2013), author of publications and articles on the history and history of art; lecturer at the University of Silesia and Jagiellonian University; as of 2014 employee of the Silesian Museum in Opava (Czech Republic).

This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at http://ted.com/tedx

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