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Mapping digital cultural heritage museums in Poland

2024; Silesian University of Technology; Volume: 2024; Issue: 206 Linguagem: Inglês

10.29119/1641-3466.2024.206.23

1641-3466

Karol Król,

Cultural Heritage Management and Preservation

Purpose: Digital cultural heritage has become inherent to the Polish cultural landscape, as evidenced by the growing attention digital cultural artefacts receive. The research objective is to build a map and list of places where digital cultural heritage artefacts are protected and made available to the public in Poland. Design/methodology/approach: The article outlines a concept for a ‘Tourist Trail of Digital Cultural Heritage in Poland’. The trail links several dozen unique places that bear testimony to the history of technical development and associated socioeconomic phenomena. A pilot study, a partially structured interview survey, was conducted in the Museum of Electronics in Kraków. Having analysed source materials, the author compiled a list and a map of digital cultural heritage museums in Poland. Findings: The map of the museums revealed a potential market niche and established a ‘Tourist Trail of Digital Cultural Heritage in Poland’. The pilot survey revealed that visitors to the Museum of Electronics in Kraków were interested in how archaic digital hardware looked and worked and also what was inside. It is a recommendation on how future museum exhibitions can be set up. Originality/value: These are the first list and map of places that preserve and promote the memory of digital cultural heritage in Poland. It is also a starting point for the ‘Tourist Trail of Digital Cultural Heritage in Poland’. The tourist trail of digital cultural heritage is a unique tourist and cultural product aimed at preserving the memory of Polish and international computer thought. Keywords: cultural heritage, map of museums, tourist trail, retrocomputing, retrogaming. Category of the paper: research paper.