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Holistic Heritage
by Towarzystwo Miłośników Historii i Zabytków Krakowa, European Heritage Hub
Holistic Heritage brings conversations, opinions and thoughts on heritage from Central and Eastern Europe. Join Katarzyna Jagodzińska and John Beauchamp as they interview heritage leaders and discover the most inspiring projects from across the region. Brought to you by the Europa Nostra Heritage Hub in Kraków.
Episodes
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On the Road: Manifesta sheds light on Ruhr heritage
For this episode we’re taking a look at the Manifesta festival and this sixteenth edition of Europe’s nomadic biennial of contemporary art. Running from 21 June to 4 October 2026, it unfolds across the entire Ruhr region, taking in the major industrial centres of Bochum, Duisburg, Essen and...
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Traces of the Holocaust
The popularity of the Schindler Factory – a branch of the Museum of Kraków – which opened 15 years ago, has since led to the creation of a new museum at the nearby KL Plaszow concentration camp. The Schindler Factory is a part of the Museum of Kraków, and displays a narrative of Kraków life…
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Redefining the “Workers’ Paradise”
For this episode of Heritage Hour we are in Nowa Huta, an industrial city which was built as a workers’ neighbourhood in the socialist-realist style in the late 1940s, acting as a proletarian counterweight to the seemingly snobbish and intellectual city of Kraków. Over seven decades later, and…
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Sounds of Heritage
Is sound heritage? Sound is inherent to every building, every object. A wind which whistles its way through a church door, the bustle of people on a market square, the echo inside a church or even farm machinery harvesting the year's crops... And yet, we still rarely think about sound as part of...
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New architecture in World Heritage Cities
The implementation of new architecture in World Heritage City Areas is a challenge. What is allowed and what needs to be negotiated? What is the range and limit of these negotiations? Isn’t it better to build new somewhere else, leaving protected areas as they are? In October 2025, on the…
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Danubiana turns 25
The Danubiana Meulensteen Art Museum, located on a peninsula on the Danube in the vicinity of the Slovak capital of Bratislava, is one of the most stunning places created specifically for modern and contemporary art in Central Europe in the 21st century. It was founded thanks to the determination...
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On The Road: Bulgaria’s liquid gold
For this episode of On The Road, we are in the Bulgarian Valley of the Roses and the town of Kazanlak to find out more about rose production. John Beauchamp and Katarzyna Jagodzińska visit Kazanlak, where they meet Denitsa Barekova from the Rose Museum in Kazanlak, who explains the history of…
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Brâncuși joins UNESCO Heritage List
An ensemble of sculptures in the Romanian city of Târgu Jiu by renowned artist Constantin Brâncuși is now on the UNESCO Heritage List. For this episode of Holistic Heritage, John Beauchamp and Dr Katarzyna Jagodzińska are in Târgu Jiu, where they take a look at the Brâncuși sculptures: the Table…
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Łódź: Home of avant-garde art
Muzeum Sztuki (literally “Art Museum” in Polish) is one of the first contemporary art museums in the world, and was conceived by renowned artist Władysław Strzemiński and created thank to the grassroots collection of art pieces from leading artists connected to Paris at that time. Over decades…
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Inside the Heritage Hub in Kraków
For this episode of Holistic Heritage, we meet the team at the Europa Nostra Heritage Hub for Central and Eastern Europe and take a look back at the first few years of the Kraków Hub and its activities. Hosted by John Beauchamp and Dr Katarzyna Jagodzińska, Head of the Europa Nostra Heritage Hub…
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Civic energy powering heritage in Kraków
In this edition of Holistic Heritage, we speak to three heritage practitioners in Poland’s southern city of Kraków and what makes this city so special in terms of creating and running cultural heritage projects. Join hosts John Beauchamp and Dr Katarzyna Jagodzińska, Head of the Europa Nostra...
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Heritage Hour: Mapping NGOs across the CEE region
Over the past couple of years, the research team at the Europa Nostra Heritage Hub in Kraków has been busy on creating a report on the non-governmental heritage sector in Central and Eastern Europe. “Mapping of the Central and Eastern European Non-Governmental Heritage Sector: Report” was…
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Regional pride highlighted by Małopolska Culture Heritage Days
In this edition of Holistic Heritage, we are both in Kraków and further afield for the Małopolska Culture Heritage Days 2025, run by the Małopolska Cultural Institute, which this year won a European Heritage Award / Europa Nostra Awardin the Citizens Engagement and Awareness-raising category. In...
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Discussing “Participation and the Post-Museum”
What is a post-museum? Is museum participation really all that it’s geared up to be? How can museums – seen as gatekeepers of knowledge – really open up their collections and programming to the public? Or maybe they shouldn’t? “In the book I show that museums are overusing the word participation,...
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Weaving our way to wellbeing with Serfenta
The latest mapping of the heritage NGO sector in Central and Eastern Europe, conducted by the Europa Nostra Heritage Hub in Kraków (to be published in June 2025), has shown that heritage practitioners and others working in the sector often suffer from stress and burnout. This is of course a wider...
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On The Road: Redefining industrial heritage in Silesia
Over recent decades, a lot of industry in the region of Silesia has shut down. While some plants and factories have been demolished, others have stood the test of time and are still standing, albeit having been adapted to completely new functions, such as museums, art galleries, restaurants…
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Heritage Hour: Safeguarding Jewish heritage in Poland
In this inaugural episode of Heritage Hour, we speak to leading experts on the preservation of Jewish heritage in Poland. We hear about the synagogue in Orla, in eastern Poland, and its submission to the 7 Most Endangered Programme run by Europa Nostra. What is special about the synagogue in Orla...
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Deconstructing the vernacular: Wooden architecture in Podlasie and Lithuania
The bare concrete structure of a decommissioned power plant, part of the Arsenał Gallery in Białystok in north-eastern Poland, is the home to an exhibition by Augustas Serapinas, a Vilnius-based artist who is putting a spotlight on the plight of regional wooden architecture. For the exhibition,...
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Dan Perjovschi: Confronting authority in post-modern times
Dan Perjovschi is a Romanian artist, writer and journalist whose simple cartoon-like drawings provoke and appeal to audiences the world over. His work is politically and socially engaging, and his exhibitions – which he usually “installs” himself by painting directly onto museum walls – are...
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Kraków nativity scenes highlight regional pride
It’s the first Thursday in December, and in the southern Polish city of Kraków a number of people have gathered around the Adam Mickiewicz monument on the Main Market Square for the annual nativity scene competition. Cracovian nativity scenes, or szopki, have been a regular fixture in the city...
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On The Road: Balkan discoveries
Following our visit to the Tășuleasa Social and hiking a part of the Via Transilvanica (you can hear more in our episode on the Via Transilvanica here), we decide to carry on our journey through Romania and Bulgaria by taking in a few heritage sites. Our first destination is the village of…
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Hungary for heritage
Head of the Kraków Heritage Hub Katarzyna Jagodzińska speaks to Tamas Fejerdy, a long-standing expert on cultural heritage and president of the Hungarian ICOMOS national committee. Tamas Fejerdy is a treasure trove of knowledge about monuments and heritage, both in Hungary and across Europe. We...
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Lessons from Estonia
Estonia is on the front line with regards to the ongoing conflict in Ukraine. Being in such a position has forced decision makers to rethink official policy in times of war. How to protect tangible cultural heritage? How to tackle the country’s dissonant Soviet heritage? With the invasion of...
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Ukraine Heritage Spotlight: Rethinking the museum
Oleksandra Kovalchuk is the deputy director of the Fine Arts Museum in Odesa as well as the co-founder of the Museum For Change NGO, which actively seeks and supports cultural institutions in Ukraine in preserving their collections and assisting in ongoing operations. Head of the Kraków Heritage...
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Spotlight on Europe’s cultural heritage ‘Oscar’
In the latest podcast in the Holistic Heritage series, the Kraków Heritage Hub’s John Beauchamp is in Bucharest for the 2024 European Cultural Heritage Summit, where he takes a closer look at the European Heritage Awards / Europa Nostra Awards. Since 2002, the awards have championed the best...
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Kaunas: Meaningful Modernism
Coming up in this episode, we go up to Lithuania to find out the activities undertaken in Kaunas following the city’s remarkable success as European Capital of Culture in 2022 and its inscription to the UNESCO World Heritage List in 2023. During a meeting in Kraków, head of the Heritage Hub...
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Ukraine Heritage Spotlight: Podlasie
In our search for the cultural heritage of Ukrainians in Poland we have arrived in Podlasie – a region encompassing the Polish-Belarusian borderland, with the Narew river meandering through its centre and the World Heritage listed Białowieża forest straddling the border. For decades, Ukrainian...
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Via Transilvanica: Romanian heritage step by step
In this edition of Holistic Heritage we are in Romania, where we hike the Via Transilvanica with the trail’s co-founder Ana Szekely. Ana stands behind the success of Via Transilvanica, the longest walking trail in Romania, by many considered one of the most beautiful in the world. Measuring 1,400...
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Ukraine Heritage Spotlight: Łemkowszczyzna
We are in the Beskid Niski mountain range in southern Poland which is home of the Lemkos, an ethnic group of Carpathian highlanders. They have their own language, which may be classified as a dialect of Rusyn, akin to Ukrainian, and have been here in the Polish Carpathians for generations. The...
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Ukraine Heritage Spotlight: Nadsanie
We are in Przemyśl which plays host to the Narodniy Dim – the National House – which is run by the Association of Ukrainians in Poland. A number of families which were deported from this area in 1947 as part of Operation Vistula have since returned and are cultivating their regional traditions,...
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Ukraine Heritage Spotlight: Jam Factory sweetens Lviv’s art scene
For this episode we are in Lviv and visiting the Jam Factory Art Center. This new space in an old and run-down suburb of Ukraine’s western city has been in the making for years. Now it has become Lviv’s most fashionable centre for contemporary artists both from Ukraine and beyond, and has the...
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Ukraine Heritage Spotlight: Spreading culture through comics
We’re in the centre of Lviv to visit UA Comix – a comic book store, as you might have guessed from the name. But it’s so much more than that. In fact, you could say that comics are now helping the Ukranian war effort against Russia. Bohdan Kordoba is the founder and CEO of UA Comix. Even though…
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Ukraine Heritage Spotlight: Emergency callout for heritage
Assistance for heritage during times of war has been a leitmotif throughout the Ukraine Heritage Spotlight podcast series. In this episode we look closely at the activities undertaken by non-governmental organisations, including those bringing physical support for heritage institutions endangered...
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Bratislava art bridge
December 2022 marked the reopening of the Slovak National Gallery after major reconstruction. A large part of exhibition premises were closed for more than twenty years due to their derelict condition, and construction works took almost seven years. Bratislava has now regained one of its most...
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Redefining heritage
How has the concept of heritage changed over the decades? We take a look at best practices and approaches to heritage preservation with Professor Jacek Purchla, Vice-President of Europa Nostra. We met at the Heritage Hub in Kraków in June 2024 on the occasion of the announcement of the European...
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On The Road: Harnessing the power of Ukrainian heritage
Physical damage to Ukraine’s cultural heritage is very real. Official figures from UNESCO dated 10 April 2024 reveal verified damage to 351 sites since 24 February 2022, including religious sites, museums and monuments, as well as other heritage sites. For the inaugural episode, I’m in Lviv,...
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Ukraine Heritage Spotlight: Creating heritage for the future
One of the most important activities in heritage research is not just looking at the past, but recording the present for future generations of citizens and scholars. This is exactly what Dr Iryna Sklokina is doing from the Center for Urban History in Lviv. One of the centre’s projects is...
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Ukraine Heritage Spotlight: Jak ochronić dziedzictwo?
W 2023 roku historyczne centrum Lwowa zostało wpisane na Listę światowego dziedzictwa UNESCO w zagrożeniu. Decyzję Światowego Komitetu wymusiła trwająca od lutego 2022 roku pełnoskalowa inwazja wojsk rosyjskich na terenie Ukrainy. Choć Lwów jest położony daleko od frontu, od początku wojny w tym...
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Ukraine Heritage Spotlight: Creating a cultural heritage market
The number of cultural heritage sites in Ukraine is huge, yet with local municipalities struggling to finance the upkeep of buildings, monuments and other treasures, new ways of financing have had to be found. That is where Spadshchyna.UA – which means ‘heritage’ in Ukrainian – comes into play.…
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Ukraine Heritage Spotlight: Cancelling Russian culture
The ongoing war in Ukraine has not only caused physical damage. Russia’s continuing “special military operation” also has a cultural dimension, one which Ukraine is now having to fight against, and not just with heavy weaponry. In this episode of Ukraine Heritage Spotlight, we are in the western...
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Ukraine Heritage Spotlight: On the ground with WMF
The World Monuments Fund is an independent organisation based in New York devoted to safeguarding heritage locations to build mutual understanding across cultures and communities. Since 1965, its global team of experts has preserved cultural heritage at more than 700 sites in 112 countries. Today...
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European Heritage Hub: Connecting Heritage Across Europe
The European Heritage Hub is one of the largest cultural heritage-driven projects across Europe to support the green, social and digital transformation of our society. Launched in May 2023 by a consortium of 20 partners led by Europa Nostra, and co-funded by the European Union, this pilot project...
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Ukraine Heritage Spotlight: On the ground with UNESCO
“Cultural heritage is by nature politically sensitive, highly complex with a high degree of symbolic significance, emotionally charged and with a risk of political manipulation concerning its history, ownership and use,” we read in a “Concept on Cultural heritage in conflicts and crises”…
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Ukraine Heritage Spotlight: Vyshyvanka activism
Vyshyvankas have always had a symbolic meaning, referring to prosperity, luck and protection. Now, at a time of war with Russia, vyshyvankas have gained an even deeper symbolism – they signify the continuation of Ukrainian culture in the face of destruction of cultural heritage. Ukrainians…
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Inside the Innovation Manor
What can civil society do for heritage? Basically there is no limit. In this episode we speak to Natalia Gnoińska, president of Fundacja 8Marca, who has initiated a concept of the Innovation Manor in Rokietnica, south-east Poland. The Innovation Manor addresses the problem of undeveloped...
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Ukraine Heritage Spotlight: War in contemporary art
What does the situation of the contemporary artistic world in Ukraine at war look like? Is the war visible in contemporary artistic practice in the public space? Artur Wabik, a visual artist specialising in murals and graffiti, curator, manager of cultural projects based in Krakow, shares his...
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Industrial heritage for post-industrial times
We take a look at industrial heritage and why we should love old factory buildings instead of tear them down. What is being done to promote industrial heritage, and what has to be done to preserve industrial heritage while keeping in line with the EU’s green deal? What can the Central and Eastern...
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Europa Nostra at 60: The Future
60 years ago, on 29 November 1963, Europa Nostra was founded at the Council of Europe premises in Paris. Starting out with 11 founding members, it has become the largest civil society network dedicated to cultural heritage in Europe. Today, it gives voice to over 300 organisations from across...
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Europa Nostra at 60: The Present
60 years ago, on 29 November 1963, Europa Nostra was founded at the Council of Europe premises in Paris. Starting out with 11 founding members, it has become the largest civil society network dedicated to cultural heritage in Europe. Today, it gives voice to over 300 organisations from across...
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Renaissance treasures displayed in landmark exhibition
Autumn 2023 marked the opening of a blockbuster exhibition “Image of the Golden Age: Culture in the Times of the Last Jagiellons” at the Wawel Royal Castle in Kraków, presenting 16th century culture on the vast territory of Polish-Lithuanian commonwealth. The exhibition displays several hundred...
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Holistic Heritage brings conversations, opinions and thoughts on heritage from Central and Eastern Europe. Join Katarzyna Jagodzińska and John Beauchamp as they interview heritage leaders and discover the most inspiring projects from across the region. Brought to you by the Europa Nostra Heritage Hub in Kraków.
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