GLAM/Newsletter/July 2026/Contents/Poland report
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GLAM-Wiki partnerships continue opening collections
MuFo Continues Expanding Its Collections on Wikimedia Commons
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Ignacy Krieger, Józefa Krieger (Baum) as a Cracovian woman and an unidentified Cracovian young man
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Building on the first upload of 60 historical photographs published in December 2025, the GLAM-Wiki partnership with the the Museum of Photography in Kraków (MuFo) has reached another milestone. In July, Maciej Szostek (Wikimedia Polska) uploaded more than 130 additional historical photographs to Wikimedia Commons, further expanding public access to the museum's collections. In addition to publishing the photographs, the project included extensive work on metadata, author records, Wikimedia Commons categories, Creator templates, and Wikidata integration, significantly improving the discoverability and reuse of the collection.
The collection includes studio portraits created by some of the leading photographers working in Kraków, including Ignacy Krieger, August Adler, Klementyna Zubrzycka-Bączkowska, Antoni Wieczorek, Walery Rzewuski, and Mikołaj Senkowski. It features portraits of artists, actors, scholars, and public figures, including Pola Negri and Jadwiga Smosarska, alongside early twentieth-century landscapes, photographs documenting Kraków, the Tatra Mountains, and other historic landscapes. The upload also includes rare colour autochromes by Tadeusz Rząca, as well as reproductions by Józef Sebald documenting Stanisław Wyspiański's staging of Dziady. Among the highlights are Mikołaj Senkowski's photographs of Hutsul children, together with images documenting the traditional Polish tyta (school cone) celebration, offering valuable insight into the cultural diversity, local traditions, and everyday life of the early twentieth century.
Beyond the upload itself, new author categories, Creator templates, and Wikidata items were created or expanded, while the photographs were systematically categorised and enriched with structured data. This work improves the discoverability of both the collection and the photographers themselves, making the museum's resources easier to find, reuse, and connect across Wikimedia projects. The project demonstrates how GLAM-Wiki partnerships can extend beyond opening collections by improving the quality, interoperability, and long-term reusability of cultural heritage data across the Wikimedia ecosystem.
All photographs contributed through the GLAM-Wiki partnership with MuFo are available in the dedicated Wikimedia Commons category. We encourage Wikimedia contributors to explore the collection and use these freely licensed images to illustrate Wikipedia articles across different language editions, helping bring the museum's photographic heritage to a wider global audience.
From Paris to Persia: New Treasures from the Czartoryski Library on Wikimedia Commons
To mark Wikimania 2026 in Paris, the Czartoryski Library released a nineteenth-century pocket map of Paris and its surroundings on Wikimedia Commons. Published in 1833 by Rosselin and printed from engraved copper plates, the folding map offers a fascinating historical view of the city hosting this year's Wikimedia conference.
The map was released alongside a new batch of digitised treasures shared through the GLAM-Wiki partnership with the Czartoryski Library, a branch of the National Museum in Kraków. Prepared by Agata Stadnicka, Wikimedian in Residence, the July release also includes selected pages from two beautifully illuminated muraqqaʿ albums containing Persian and Indian miniatures and calligraphy dating from the fifteenth to the eighteenth centuries.
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Decorative calligraphy and illustration.
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The albums feature depictions of plants, animals, and figures from Persian and Indian culture, showcasing the richness of the library's manuscript collections. Some of the plants and animals remain unidentified, creating an opportunity for the Wikimedia community to contribute by improving descriptions and adding categories on Wikimedia Commons.
Like other materials published through the GLAM-Wiki partnership, these collections are freely available for reuse and can be used to illustrate Wikipedia articles across different language editions.
We invite Wikimedia contributors to explore the growing collection on Wikimedia Commons, help improve its descriptions and categorisation, and reuse these freely licensed materials to enrich Wikipedia articles across languages.
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This text is based on project updates prepared by Agata Stadnicka, Wikimedian in Residence at the Czartoryski Library.
