PROJECT PROPOSAL OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM IN KRAKOW
Title: Museum (Art) Book Festival
Project beneficiates: European museums and cultural institutions that run advanced publishing activity, museum audience, people interested in books dealing with art.
Budget :300 thousand euro, duration: 24 months.
The main aim of the project is to create partnership international forum and exchange of experience, in order to promote museum and art publishing and create collective publishing projects, organization of book presentation, which takes place during e.g. Book Fairs in Cracow in 2010 and other European Book Fairs.
Initial activity planning concerning the project:
1) Organization of transnational meetings and workshops: minimum two workshop meetings per year and seminar for opening and closing (apart from the Festival)
2) Creating an expert group and cooperation concerning preparation of collective publishing and promoting projects for particular partners.
3) Implementation of Museum Book Festival (an international meeting of book publishers) on the occasion of Book Fairs in Cracow in 2010 (and other fairs) . The meeting will be a great opportunity to present publishings of many well-known European museums.
4) Show of contemporary designers’ work – gadget and souvenirs connecting with art and museums
The project may prove to be useful in promotion of our publishings and entering more serious publishing environment. Incorporating the Festival into the biggest Book Fairs in Europe will result in logistical facilitation and better promotion of the event. The popularity and a large scale of the Fairs, which have a long tradition, will guarantee high attendance, along with a good disposal of the books exposed by the invited Museums.
Some parts of the meetings and seminars may take place in the National Museum in Krakow and in the Partners institutions. Festival may take place in separate fair pavilions and it should be accompanied by many attractive presentations. Participation in the Festival for museum exhibitors should be free, as well as stay and travelling costs should be refunded from project resources.
Contact: Lidia Koziel-Siudut Anna Walczyk The National Museum in Krakow Fundraising Department Al. 3 Maja 1 31-062 Kraków phone: +48 12 29 55 681 fax: +48 12 29 55 555 e-mail: eu@muz-nar.krakow.pl www.muzeum.krakow.pl