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The Polish Museum of America 984 N. Milwaukee Avenue Chicago, IL 60642-4101 Telephone: (773) 384-3352 Fax: (773) 384-3799 Email: Visit us! |
Museum News(Rich Kujawa)
return to top of page | return to home page | museum news archive index July 26, 2010A few weeks ago a visitor commented the the Museum's website does not give a visitor a good idea of what to expect, specifically the size and scope of the Museum was not obvious. We do listen to comments! This morning I added a gallery of photos to the Paderewski exhibit section. In future I will be adding more photos of the other exhibits. If you have comments please send them to the address at the upper right corner of this page. The Main Hall of the Museum will be partially closed July 27 in order to replace a failing central light fixture. We hope to keep the closure time as short as possible. A new section of 'Frequently Asked Questions' has been added to the "Visit Us" page. return to top of page | return to home page | museum news archive index July 14, 2010Tuesday, Jan and I attended the final review of the report on climate change for the Chicago Department of Energy produced by the ECCo Department of the Field Museum. This is a study of attitudes about climate change within the Polish-American community. Rich served as advisor throughout the project (February to July) and Jan was an official advisor for the past month. The report is a wonderful piece of work and the Museum is very proud to have played a role in its creation. A summary of the results will be available here in about a month. It will be publically presented for the first time at the Field Museum to the Green Build Convention which is holding its annual conference in Chicago in November. The Museum will host the Polish Green Build banquet on November 19. Below a a couple of photos I took from the north entrance to the Field Museum prior to the meeting.
return to top of page | return to home page | museum news archive index July 1, 2010On June 19 Rich presented his lecture on Polish Immigration to the NW Indiana Genealogical Society. On June 21 a television video crew was in the Paderewski Room taking video and photographs for a documentary on Paderewski to be aired in Poland in November. Some photos of both events are posted below along with a couple of photos of Jack Vishneski, one of our Summer interns.
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June 30, 2010A revision to the website's format is now in progress. David and I have realized that there are a number of pages that need to be posted that don't easily fit into the categories found in the current left-side navigation menu. For example, the Neighborhood Stories page doesn't really fit into any of the current navigation selections. What is planned is to create a new separate selection menu on the right which will allow the visitor to select a special project link. If any visitors have other ideas or if you would like to participate in a beta test, please send an email to the address in the header bar. Also, look for new donation options in the near future. return to top of page | return to home page | museum news archive index June 16, 2010In collaboration with the Field Museum and the Chicago Cultural Alliance, the Museum is offering a free visit to the Field Museum on Thursday, July 15 at 10:00 am. There will be a special group viewing of a new exhibit at the Field Museum followed by a group discussion of the exhibit. Afterwards, participants may view other exhibits at the Field Museum without charge. For information click here. Reservations are required by July 12! return to top of page | return to home page | museum news archive index June 14, 2010For the past several months volunteer Sean Ciolek and Rich have been involved with personnel from the ECCo department of The Field Museum researching Chicago's Polish Community attitudes towards the issue of climate change. We are scheduled to have one final focus group meeting on June 22 with selected community leaders. A rough draft of the final report will be reviewed on July 1. For more information please go to: http://www.fieldmuseum.org/ccuc/ccuc_sites/Climate_Action/climate_action.htm Additionally, Lisa Terlecki, Sean Ciolek and Rich have been working on a dialog project with the American Indian Center and The Field museum. The dialogue will take place at The Field Museum in the latter part of July. If you are interested in participating, please send an email to the address in the header of this page. return to top of page | return to home page | museum news archive index June 14, 2010Schoolgroup visit on June 11, 2010:
return to top of page | return to home page | museum news archive index June 11, 2010Szanowni Państwo, odnalazłem wczoraj poważną pomyłkę na naszej stronie internetowej. Linki prowadzące do nowej polskiej wersji strony internetowej miały zostać zmienione 2 marca. Na nieszczęście tak się nie stało i niedopatrzenie to odkryłem dopiero wczoraj. Wszystkie linki prowadzące do polskiej wersji strony wiodą do polskiej strony głównej. Zdaję sobie sprawę, iż niektórzy z odwiedzających nas gości byli zawiedzeni faktem, że polska wersja naszej strony internetowej była pomijana i nieuaktualniana. W rzeczywistości, wspólnie z Davidem, regularnie ją uaktualnialiśmy. Jednakże dlatego, że linki prowadziły do starej wersji v3, która nie była uaktualniana po połowie lutego - nasi goście nie mogli dostać się do nowej, uaktualnionej strony. Jestem bardzo poruszony tym faktem i nie mam żadnego usprawiedliwienia. Żadne z uspawiedliwień bowiem nie jest do przyjęcia. Bardzo przepraszam naszych polskojęzycznych gości. Dziękuję za zrozumienie, Rich Kujawa return to top of page | return to home page | museum news archive index June 10, 2010I found a very bad mistake on the website yesterday. The links to the new Polish version of the website were to have been updated on March 2 of this year. Unfortunately, that did not happen and this oversight was not discovered until yesterday. All Polish version links now take the user to the new, updated, Polish Home page. Some of our users may have become very frustrated that it appeared the Polish version of the website was being totally ignored and not updated. In fact, it was being updated regularly by both David and me. But because the links took the user to the old version, v3, which was not updated after mid-February, the user could not get to the new updated page. I am really embarrassed about this and will offer no excuses. No excuse could be acceptable. I am very sorry to our Polish language users. Rich Kujawa As of this writing, we have over 200 reservations for the Summer Ball! We are deeply grateful to the community for their support. Thank you so much! return to top of page | return to home page | museum news archive index May 24, 2010We certainly have been busy! The pianola recital on May16 went very well. Monday and Tuesday found several staff in meetings and workshops relative to projects with the Field Museum. Friday Rich was at Wheeling High School for their annual diversity day program. Here are links to photos from both events: Pianola Wheeling return to top of page | return to home page | museum news archive index May 13, 2010The Pianola recital is on schedule for Sunday, May 16 at 2:00. VIP seating is now closed. About 50 people have guaranteed, reserved general seating. The high number of early reserved seats indicates that this could be a sell-out performance and general seating is limited to 250. Tickets are $15 per person and will be available at the door until we reach capacity. The last event of this type was in 1985 at Orchestra Hall with the Chicago Symphony Youth Orchestra. This event will be a recital and only the 1925 Steinway reproducing piano will be used. The piano rolls that will be used are copies of rolls made by Paderewski, mostly after World War I. return to top of page | return to home page | museum news archive index May 12, 2010The Polish Club from Wheeling High School visited on May 11, 2010. I will be at the school on May 21 for their diversity day event. These are a great bunch of people with a lot of enthusiasm for Polish culture.
Here are some photos of the diversity event last year.
return to top of page | return to home page | museum news archive index May 11, 2010Two high school groups visited the Museum over the past several days. I think the students found their visit worthwhile.
Rex Lawson and Denis Hall in conversation with Elaine Coorens in the Paderewski Room.
return to top of page | return to home page | museum news archive index May 4, 2010The Constitution Day Parade was very successful. Our float, keying off the Chopin theme, had a piano with good friend Jeff Wagner imitating Paderewski at the keyboard and was well received. I expect to have photos posted later this week. Because of the tragedy of April 10, the press was unusually attentive to this year's parade. Now that the parade is over, I'm seeing fewer Polish flags on autos around town. Life returns to "normal" and goes on. We're now in final preparation for the upcoming Pianola recital. Rex and Denis arrive this morning. The 24 VIP seats are now 50% filled. General seating reservations are coming in slowly but expected to speed up this week. return to top of page | return to home page | museum news archive index April 28, 2010A quiet week thus far. I think the Community is getting ready for the parade on Saturday which is likely to be a somber affair. Mayor Daley will hold a brief memorial service after the parade at the reviewing stand. This is appropriate. We hope he doesn't start immediately, so that the last parade units' personnel can get back to the stands. If you live in the Chicago-Metro area, please seriously consider attending the Museum's Pianola Recital on May 16. These recitals are very rare in the USA. A 1925 7 foot Steinway reproducing piano is being loaned to the Museum for this recital. These instruments, in playing condition, are very rare. There are probably fewer than six in the that are ready to play. The Pianola Institute in London has no definite future plans to perform again in the USA. While you can by recordings of Paderewski's performances, the technology still cannot accurately produce the same effect a live piano recital. This recital is not to be missed! More cooperative events with the Field Museum are in the planning stages right now. Look for future announcements and post-event photo galleries. Rich return to top of page | return to home page | museum news archive index April 22, 2010As indicated earlier this week a special new page has been set-up to reference all the condolences for who died on April 10 at Smolensk. We hope you like this new arrangement. We, David and I, also decided to use all .pdf files for all the statements. These come up as pop-up widows so navigation is easier. Please let me know what you think. We did not have as many website hits last week as I had anticipated. But, oddly, we are getting more hits this week than last. I do hope you are finding the website useful. The new Poster exhibit opening on April 16 was another big success with around 300 people attending. Even with the jazz concert cancelled, it seemed the Polish-American community just wanted to come together. return to top of page | return to home page | museum news archive index April 19, 2010We have received condolences from many people and organizations concerning the death of President Kaczynski and others. I will post what I can but our Home page is getting very cluttered. It may be best to set up a separate page for this purpose. Look for news here later this week. (postscript: As of late this morning, the new page has been added to compile information and messages concerning the death of President Kaczynski and others.) return to top of page | return to home page | museum news archive index April 14, 2010All Museum staff and volunteers are in mourning over the loss of President Kaczynski and so many others in the plane crash last Saturday. Our prayers are with the families and loved ones of those who perished. My focus has been on getting appropriate material posted on our Home page. Visitors will note that I have had to abandon our normal format of chronological postings. I apologize if visitors find it confusing. While all of us are deeply saddened by what has befallen our community, we will endure, again, the burdens placed on us. We are of strong character. That has been our tradition and it will continue in our future. God bless Poland and Polonia! return to top of page | return to home page | museum news archive index April 8, 2010We have been very busy this week! The Spring newsletter has been proofed and printed. We'll begin labeling today and we'll mail on Friday. We ask our members to let us know if they would like an email version of the newsletter instead of a snail mail version. Please consider this because it would save us postage and labor. Today and Friday are especially busy for me. I have a research project meeting this morning with Field Museum personnel until Noon, then "Civic Engagement 1" training with Valparaiso University. Friday is "Civic Engagement 2" at the Cambodian-American Museum. Saturday we will host 175 students from one of the Polish Saturday Schools. Meanwhile other staff is mounting the new Artopolis poster exhibit that will open April 16. We are also preparing our advertising and press releases for the Pianola Institute Paderewski Recital on May 16. General seating is $15 and VIP seating is $25. Please do make reservations if you are interested! For more information about the Pianola Institute go to www.pianola.org While recitals of this kind are not infrequent in Europe, they are very rare events in the U.S. return to top of page | return to home page | museum news archive index return to top of page | return to home page | museum news archive index
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