Magdalena Sacha
Magdalena Sacha studied Polish and German philology in Warsaw and Gdańsk and earned her Ph.D. in 2004 with a dissertation on the cultural life of prisoners in the Nazi Buchenwald Concentration Camp between 1937 and 1945. She has worked since 2004 as a research assistant at the Institute for Cultural Studies at Uniwersytet Gdański and teaches cultural theories, regional and Polish cultural history, as well as museology. From 2001 to 2009 she was the director of the Regional Museum in Krokowa in Northern Poland which was a branch of the West Prussia Museum in Warendorf in Germany. In 2017 she was a co-curator at the exhibition “Luther in Gdynia?” at the Town Museum in Gdynia. Since 2017 she has been a member of museum council in Museum of Upper Silesia in Bytom. In her recent research she analyses the presence of social and religious minorities in the museum exhibitions with focus on displaced persons.