GLAM/Newsletter/January 2026/Contents/Poland report

This Month in GLAM – Volume XVI, Issue I, January 2026

Poland report

Explore Historic Portraits from the Museum of Photography in Kraków

Museum of Photography in Kraków: Practical GLAM-Wiki Training

Logo Muzeum Fotografii w Krakowie poziom pełna nazwa
Henryk Siemiradzki, portret
Autoportret
Aleksander Dumas, portret
Anna Moszynska z córkami, portret
Artur Władysław Potocki, portret

In January, Wikimedia Polska supported the Museum of Photography in Kraków in its first steps within the GLAM-Wiki ecosystem. After the museum, with technical support from Wikimedia Polska, uploaded its first photographic collection to Wikimedia Commons, we organized an online training for staff from the collections and inventory department.

The uploaded collection includes over 60 historical photographs from the studios of Walery Rzewuski and Awit Szubert, among other 19th- and early 20th-century photographers. The images primarily depict portraits of notable figures, including politicians, actors, and painters, offering valuable material for illustrating biographies and enriching structured data.

The hands-on session focused on practical ways of working with the collection: illustrating Wikipedia articles and enriching Wikidata entries. The training was led by Grzegorz Gogacz, Wikimedian-in-Residence at the Warsaw Public Library, who shared his experience in categorizing and reusing complex image collections on Commons.

In February, we are planning a follow-up online working session focused on jointly exploring and practically using the Museum of Photography’s collection on Wikimedia Commons and Wikipedia.

The global GLAM-Wiki community is warmly encouraged to explore, reuse, and creatively build upon the Museum of Photography in Kraków’s photographic collection on Wikimedia Commons, available in the category: Media contributed by the Museum of Photography in Krakow.

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