The Contest for the artistic and spatial concept for the permanent exhibition of the

new Museum of Wielkopolska Uprising 1918 – 1919 in Poznań

The English-language Terms and Conditions provide at the website are only informative material. In the event of any uncertainty, the Polish-language version is considered to be the binding version.

Publication date: 31.03.2023

The Wielkopolska Museum of Independence, based at ul. Woźna 12, 61-777 in Poznań invites you to participate in the Contest for the development of the artistic and spatial concept for the permanent exhibition of the Museum of Wielkopolska Uprising 1918-1919 in Poznań. Interested parties are invited to submit applications for the Contest by May 12, 2023. The Contest deadline for submitting entries is August 25, 2023.

The grand prize is PLN 50,000. The total prize pool is PLN 108,000. The Principal will negotiate with the Contest Participant whose Contest entry is selected as the best, the possibility of granting to the Participant a single-source procurement procedure for the development of the full exhibition design documentation. The maximum remuneration of the winning Contest Participant for the execution of the subject of the procurement is PLN 4,000,000.

The theme of the exhibition of the new Museum of the Wielkopolska Uprising 1918-1919 in Poznań is the following slogan: “Everyday work, Victory in moments of trial.” The Contest aims to select from among the submitted works the concept that most completely meets the substantive, narrative, aesthetic, artistic, programmatic, functional and utilitarian objectives of the Organizer. The permanent exhibition will be housed in the institution’s new main building, which will be built on the slopes of the St. Wojciech’s Hill in Poznań. The permanent exhibition will be located on level -2.

The Contest Participants prepare four tasks:

Overall artistic and spatial concept
Detailed artistic and spatial concept of the two indicated themes
Visual and spatial concept of the central space
Display solutions for two designated historical events

The Contest Jury was established to conduct the Contest, in the composition of:

Chairman of the Jury:

Robert Supeł – Chairman of the Contest Jury

Vice-Chairman of the Jury:

Sebastian Tyrakowski – deputy director of the Emigration Museum in Gdynia

Reporting Judges:

Rafał Górczyński, Ph.D., – Professor of the University of Arts in Poznań

Agnieszka Kuchcińska-Kurcz – Branch Manager of the Centrum Dialogu Przełomy / National Museum in Szczecin

Architect Szczepan Wroński – WXCA (designer of the New Museum building)

Dr. Piotr Grzelczak – co-author of the exhibition scenario, IPN Historical Research Office Branch in Poznań, “Chronicle of Poznan City”

Members:

Andrzej Betlej, Ph.D., Professor of the Jagiellonian University – Director of the Wawel Royal Castle

Tomasz Łęcki – Director of the National Museum in Poznań

Dr. Justyna Makowska – Director of the Department of Culture of the Poznań City Hall

Włodzimierz Mazurkiewicz – Director of the Department of Culture of the Marshal’s Office of the Wielkopolska Region.

Przemysław Terlecki – Director of the Wielkopolska Museum of Independence

Organizing Secretary of the Contest, acting as Secretary of the Contest Jury: Katarzyna Andrzejewska – non-voting.

Detailed schedule of the Contest:

Activities	By
The Contest Announcement.	31.03.2023 r.
Deadline for requests for clarification of the Terms and Conditions.	08.05.2023 r.
Deadline for clarification of the content of the Terms and Conditions.	10.05.2023 r.
Deadline for submitting applications to participate in the Contest.	12.05.2023 until 11:59 pm
Informing of qualification for further participation in the Contest.	26.05.2023 r.
Deadline for submission of the contest work.	25.08.2023 until 3:00 pm
Jury work on the evaluation of the contest works.	28.08.2023 – 15.09.2023 r.
Announcement of the Contest results, discussion and opening of the exhibition of contest works.	15.09.2023 r.
The planned (maximum) date for inviting the author of the winning entry to negotiate a single-source procurement procedure for the provision of the service indicated in Section 3.7 of the Terms and Conditions.	25.10.2023 r.
Approximate date of completion of the service indicated in Section 3.7 of the Terms and Conditions by the author of the winning entry.	10.12.2024 r.
Approximate deadline for the author’s supervision service indicated in Section 3.7 of the Terms and Conditions by the author of the winning entry.	31.10.2030 r.