Muzeum straconych szans : 60 lat Muzeum Regionalnego w Barlinku. Cz. 2

The paper’s first part spoke about the founding of the Regional Museum in Barlinek and the first 15 years of its operation as seen against regional museology. The Museum’s operation was based on the activity of its founder Czesław Paśnik. Over the last period under his management, and subsequently under his successor Józef Krupa, the Museum was given the opportunity to acquire a unique collection and become an institution of a national impact: by acquiring the legacy of the writer, member of the pre-WW II ‘Kwadryga’ literary group Stefan Flukowski. Subsequently, an attempt was made to mount an exhibition and a museum of the Woldenberg Prisoners (Polish officers from Oflag II C in Woldenberg/Dobiegniew). In both cases the attempts were thwarted by ‘central’ institutions: the District and Municipal Public Library in Szczecin and the organization representing former Woldenberg prisoners. These institutions evidently patronized the Barlinek Museum, failing to take local needs as well as historical and social contexts into consideration. The ambiguous attitude of those centres accompanied by untransparent circumstances of acquiring the collections had their short- and long-term impact, essentially leading to the limitation of the Barlinek Museum’s offer.