To increase the visibility of non-White / non-Catholic contributions to Polish culture and heritage, TTTM’s National Heritage and Traumatic Memory cluster offers an annual minority artist’s residency at Polin Museum in Warsaw, co-sponsored by Partner Organizations FestivALT and Teatr Powszechny. Our first edition in Spring 2022 welcomes Jewish trans artist Tobaron Waxman (Canada), whose work raises questions about how citizenship makes moral and ethical claims upon our bodies.

In a groundbreaking collaboration, TTTM is partnering with the National Museum of the American Indian and the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum - both in Washington, DC - on a five-day workshop to discuss what the legacies of mass violence and oppression mean to Indigenous and Jewish people, and what they can learn from each other regarding approaches to museum collections, cultural heritage caretaking, and the preservation of historical memory.

Decolonial Museology Re­centered (DMR) addresses the lack of decolonial discourse in the Polish museum landscape and helps develop critical museology in Poland in both theory and in practice.