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Description
The project concerns converting a part of the castle building into a cultural facility. The investment project covers the castle wards, fortifications, the so-called dry moat and the bridge above it. It will also include several rooms of the castle’s ground floor, whose small part has been available to visitors or used for professional purposes so far. It’s an important component of the entire investment project as it will enable a significant increase in the number of indoor castle areas made available also to mobility impaired people – also those living in wheelchairs.
Thanks to the investment project, many visitors will be able to see the former castle kitchen and former bathrooms dating back to when the castle acted as an orphanage – both found in the west wing – and a Gothic chamber, unattractively converted into a screening room after WWII – found in the east wing. There will also be welfare rooms with a changing room and a washing facility on the 2nd floor of the west wing. The extent of conservation work will include the basement of the south-east corner of the castle and the pantry room (known as Bishop I. Krasicki’s study) on the 1st floor of the west wing. The basements of the south-east corner will feature exhibition rooms. The project involves also establishing a CCTV system covering all areas made available to visitors or requiring surveillance for safety reasons and not surveilled so far. It also involves modernising the lighting systems in the rooms and areas accessible and to be made accessible to visitors, installing an
emergency and exit lighting system in the attic, in the exhibition rooms on the 2nd floor, in the lower floor of the basement of the south and east wings – and in the staircase leading thereto, and in the lower rooms of the tower.
Summary of project results
Activities carried out as part of the project focused on the extraordinary architectural values of our castle. We carried out renovation, conservation and restoration works on the defensive walls, the former kitchen, the former orphanage sanitary facilities and rooms in the north-west corner, the lower basement floor in the south-east corner, and the polychrome in the cupboard room on the first floor called Bishop Ignacy Krasicki''s office.
Conservation and restoration of the 14th-century castle in Lidzbark Warmiński - pearls of Gothic architecture
- conservation and restoration works and works on immovable monuments and their surroundings for the purposes of cultural activities (including supervision of these works)
- cultural and educational offer
- training related to the scope of the project, including - among others - vocational training, training on cultural entrepreneurship, cultural heritage management
- project management
- project promotion
- conservation of movable monuments and museum objects
- purchase of equipment for cultural activities and protection of cultural heritage
The project results and recipients can be described in the following points:
1. inclusion of wide, including new, recipient groups in a new and modern program cultural and high-quality cultural education during and after the project implementation;
2. including people with special needs in an interesting cultural program and cultural education;
3. building a sense of social integration and society''s responsibility for those entrusted property and cultural heritage,
4. reducing social differences resulting from access to attractive cultural offers and cultural education,
5. strengthening intercultural dialogue and deepening understanding and diversity cultural,
6. development of local community integration and building social capital based on institutionalized cultural activities,
7. increasing the sense of connection of the immigrant population with the tradition and history of the place,
8. integration of seniors, people at risk of exclusion and people with disabilities with the local community the community and the Warmian Museum,
9. using the potential of the Lidzbark castle to become an important tourist attraction in the region,
10. using the castle''s potential to be an important place for integration of the local community, including national minorities,
11. increasing the competences of Museum employees in the field of modern management cultural institutions,
12. introducing solutions supporting entrepreneurship in culture-related areas with the functioning of artists on the market and in contacts with business,
13. creating a cooperation network between the cultural and creative sectors and business,
14. preservation of the historic substance of the castle from degradation,
15. using the unique values of the castle to increase income from tourism,
16. wider access to information about the Museum''s offer thanks to modern forms of promotion,
17. development of the substantive offer and cooperation of the Museum with Partners from Norway,
18. reducing the costs of maintaining degraded infrastructure for ad hoc renovations and operating costs.
Summary of bilateral results
Høgskulen for grøn utvikling was one ouf the partners of the ‚Conservation and restoration of the fourteenth-century castle in Lidzbark Warmiński – pearls of Gothic architecture in Poland – stage III‘ project. The foundation for joint implementation of the project was a series of training courses held in Poland and Norway. Their topics were broadly understood entrepreneurship in tourism and culture and the use of the potential of local communities. They were attended by both museum employees and representatives of stakeholders. The most interesting result of the trainings was the establishment of working groups composed of representatives of the local community, the partner and the program beneficiary. The work of the groups focused on creating an offer of new activities carried out on the grounds of Lidzbark castle.As a result, with joint efforts, it was possible to organize a historical culinary festival, where various reconstruction groups together with the public prepared dishes from the region''s past.A historical fencing group, Schola Gladiatoria Heilsbergensis, was also established. Its participants continue to this day to explore the secrets of the Historical European Martial Arts free of charge. Among other things, they graced the closing ceremony of the Norwegian project with their demonstration.Together with local experts, they also prepared the first museum workshop dedicated to children and young people with intellectual disabilities, entitled. “Key to the Castle.”A strong highlight at the end of the project was also the first fashion show within the castle walls, during which original creations by a local artist, prepared especially for the occasion, were presented. The interaction with the partner led to a wider opening of the Museum to the needs of the local community and a step out of the previous comfort zone in terms of the use of historic spaces and the institution''s interaction with stakeholders.)