German-Polish Museum Forum

With their exhibitions, lecture events and museum education programs, regional history museums and cultural institutions make an important contribution to the communication of historical and social topics and their interrelationships. By enabling regular opportunities for academic staff to exchange ideas, these institutions can benefit from each other's experience and thus better meet the challenges associated with their work. With the curators' conferences HAUS SCHLESIEN creates a forum in which museum experts can meet in small focus-groups to exchange views on various aspects of exhibition and education work as well as on changing thematic focuses with regard to the region of Silesia and the history associated with it.
 
Curators and academic staff from German and Polish museums and cultural organizations are invited to introduce and discuss exhibitions and projects, thereby highlighting the various different points of view of both nations on historically and culturally relevant topics. The conferences also offer an opportunity to intensify cooperation with other institutions in Germany that are also funded under Section 96 of the Federal Expellee Law ("Bundesvertriebenengesetz") as well as regional and specialized Polish museums. Organizations can also use the events to make contact with new cooperation partners. This should lead to the initiation of more collaborative projects, which will make it possible to shed light on a shared European history from different points of view and thus allow visitors to change their own perspectives – and look beyond national borders.
 
The lectures presented during the conferences are published in a conference transcript and are thus made accessible to a broad audience.