Piotr Rypson
Piotr Rypson (1956, Warsaw) is a curator, historian of literature and visual culture, museum expert. Since January 2024 Director of the Cultural Heritage Department at the Polish Ministry of Culture and National Heritage.
PhD in literary studies (2002), MA in Nubian Studies (1982). Former Deputy Director and then Acting Director at the National Museum in Warsaw, former Chief Curator at the Jewish Historical Institute in Warsaw and Chair of the International Council of Museums ICOM Poland (2018-2024). Curator of numerous exhibitions of contemporary art, design history, artists’ books and visual literature, etc. Author of 11 books and over 200 articles on art, information architecture, visual communication and literature.
Piotr Rypson has recently curated an exhibition on 100th Anniversary of Poland’s Independence (National Museum), an exhibition on liminal experiences in the Warsaw ghetto and the presentation of the Underground Archive of the Warsaw Ghetto in Germany (Munich Documentation Centre for the History of National Socialism) in 2022, later shown at The Melbourne Holocaust Museum. (2025)
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