History and Museum Collections of the Gdańsk Tech Lab was established in the mid-1980s as the Gdańsk Tech History Laboratory. The main goal of its activity is acquiring, collecting, securing and developing all material traces of the establishment and activity of Gdańsk University of Technology from 1904 to the present day, as the oldest and key scientific center of Northern Poland.
History and Museum Collections of the Gdańsk Tech Lab is a member the Association of University Museums.
Location:
Main Building, 4rd floor (level 400), room 464 and 465
Contact:
- phone: +48 58 347 17 91
- e-mail: hist.bpg@pg.edu.pl
Head of Lab:
Dariusz Kortas
phone: +48 58 347 17 91
e-mail: dariusz.kortas@pg.edu.pl
Staff:
Representative of the Gdańsk Tech Library Director for Gdańsk Tech history
mgr Barbara Ząbczyk-Chmielewska
Location:
New ETI Building, level 0, room NE 052
Kontakt:
- phone: +48 58 347 29 95
- e-mail: barbara.zabczyk-chmielewska@pg.edu.pl
Tasks:
- Preparing audiovisual documentation about the history of Gdańsk University of Technology. This includes planning and conducting interviews with people important to the university’s history: choosing interviewees, preparing interview questions, conducting interviews, and taking part in editing the recordings (content supervision).
- Collecting documents and objects related to the history of Gdańsk University of Technology.
- Taking part in external research (queries) about the university’s history.
- Representing the Director of the Gdańsk Tech Library at meetings related to the university’s history.
- Proposing new ideas to promote the history of Gdańsk University of Technology.
- Taking part in meetings to organize historical events such as lectures, conferences, exhibitions, and other activities on this topic.
- Working with the Gdańsk Tech Alumni Association on activities that promote the history of the university and taking part in meetings of the Alumni Association’s Historical Committee.