Prof. Małgorzata Omilanowska the new Director of the Royal Castle in Warsaw – Museum
We are pleased to announce that on September 12, 2024, the Minister of Culture and National Heritage, Ms. Hanna Wróblewska, appointed Professor Małgorzata Omilanowska-Kiljańczyk as the Director of the Royal Castle in Warsaw.
Prof. Małgorzata Omilanowska-Kiljańczyk is an art historian specializing in the architecture of the 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries, art theory and protection of monuments.
She graduated from the Institute of Art History at the University of Warsaw and also studied at the Institute of Architecture at the Technical University of Berlin. She earned her PhD at the University of Warsaw in 1995 and completed her habilitation at the Institute of Art of the Polish Academy of Sciences in 2005. In 2013, she was officially conferred the title of professor. Furthermore, in 2003 she completed postgraduate studies in finance and taxation at the Warsaw School of Economics.
Since 1985, she has worked as a researcher at the Institute of Art of the Polish Academy of Sciences. Since 2006, she has been a professor at the University of Gdańsk, and currently she is the Director of the Institute of Art History. Between 2012 and 2014, she held the position of Undersecretary of State at the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage, in 2014 and 2015 she served as the Minister of Culture and National Heritage of Poland.
Prof. Małgorzata Omilanowska-Kiljańczyk was a guest lecturer at universities such as Oldenburg, Berlin, Leipzig, Marburg, Cambridge, and Tallinn. She was also a fellowship holder at several prestigious European research institutions, including the British Academy, the Institute for Advanced Study in Berlin, the Herder Institute for Historical Research on East Central Europe in Marburg, and the Leibniz Institute for the History and Culture of Eastern Europe (GWZO) in Leipzig.
She is a member of numerous scientific councils and international cultural institutions, including the Academic Council of the German Historical Institute Warsaw (Deutsches Historisches Institut Warschau), the Council of the National Museum in Gdańsk, and the Committee on Art Studies of the Polish Academy of Sciences. She represents Poland in the International Committee for Art History CIHA (Comité International d'Histoire de l'Art) and is actively involved in various associations and organizations, such as the Association of Art Historians and the Polish National Committee of ICOMOS.