Description
The Baltic Sea Cultural Centre manages a Gothic church transformed into a modern exhibition and concert hall. The potential of monuments became an impulse for the search of other cultural institutions located in old churches (i.e. KKV, the menager of Kulturkirken Jakob in Oslo), as the problem of such adaptations is a Europe-wide issue. A need emerged to initiate exchange experiences, good practices and usage of modern communication and IT tools to promote cultural heritage. The outcomes: establishing contacts between cultural centres located in old churches, exchange of good practices and experiences concerning management and PR; raising of participation in culture, providing with tools supporting knowledge enhancement of cultural heritage – i.e. multimedia presentation, mobile app. The outputs: exchange of experiences concerning cultural institutions in old churches, further development directions; creating modern tools for cultural heritage promotion; realization of a Polish & Norwegian music project. Target groups: conservationists, art historians; artists, musicians; tourists and local society.
Summary of project results
The Baltic Sea Cultural Centre manages a Gothic church transformed into a modern exhibition and concert hall. The potential of monuments became an impulse for the search of other cultural institutions located in old churches (i.e. KKV, the menager of Kulturkirken Jakob in Oslo), as the problem of such adaptations is a Europe-wide issue. A need emerged to initiate exchange experiences, good practices and usage of modern communication and IT tools to promote cultural heritage. The outcomes: establishing contacts between cultural centres located in old churches, exchange of good practices and experiences concerning management and PR; raising of participation in culture, providing with tools supporting knowledge enhancement of cultural heritage – i.e. multimedia presentation, mobile app. The outputs: exchange of experiences concerning cultural institutions in old churches, further development directions; creating modern tools for cultural heritage promotion; realization of a Polish & Norwegian music project. Target groups: conservationists, art historians; artists, musicians; tourists and local society.
Summary of bilateral results
The Baltic Sea Cultural Centre is an organisation with over 20 years of experience in realising international cultural projects as well as huge experience in managing old buildings. Within this project BSCC will deliver the venue for artistic undertakings as well as events and modern tools to promote cultural heritage. The project was strengthen the international potential of the participating organisations, improved the cultural offer of the venues and constituted a basis for future cooperation. The international conference within the project became the foundation for a network of cooperating organisations, performing cultural and artistic activities in historical churches. The partnership of Polish and Norwegian institutions managing historical churches adapted to cultural purposes becomes a starting point for establishing a network of similar organisations in Europe. The conference organised within the project became a platform for exchange of experiences concerning creation and functioning of attractive cultural offer in the cultural heritage sites and it also offered an opportunity to discuss the forms of future cooperation and mutual promotion of the managed monuments and potential joint undertakings.