Contemporary Archaeology Workshop at the Katyn Museum
On 28 October 2025, the Katyn Museum hosted a museum workshop held as part of the research project funded by the Polish National Programme for the Development of the Humanities (NPRH MNiSW), “Lexicon of Katyn Archaeology (1990–2015)”.
The workshop brought together postgraduate students specialising in contemporary archaeology, representing the Bronioznawcze Koło Naukowe Studentów Archeologii at the University of Łódź (“Szare Banderia”) and the Research Master Archaeology and Heritage programme at the University of Amsterdam.
Participants were given access to both the permanent exhibition of the Katyn Museum and its storage and laboratory areas, offering insight into the museum’s research and conservation work.
The sessions were led by members of the Katyn Museum team: curator Kacper Ciesielski, who guided the group through the museum spaces and presented selected artefacts, and Dr Bartłomiej Bydoń, who led a discussion on written artefacts recovered during exhumations in Eastern Europe, as well as materials donated by victims’ families from their private archives.
The workshop provided an opportunity for academic exchange and reflection on the role of material evidence in documenting and commemorating the Katyn Massacre.
Photo: Dr Olgierd Ławrynowicz
