Przegląd i omówienie wybranych działań muzealnych adresowanych do dzieci, zarówno w Polsce, jak i na świecie. Autorka zestawia zrealizowane w ostatnich latach w Polsce i cieszące się popularnością wystawy dla dzieci z działaniami poza- i okołowystawienniczymi oraz z aktywnością instytucji adresowanych do dzieci na świecie. Omawiane przykłady sytuuje w kontekście współczesnej refleksji muzeologicznej, a zwłaszcza dyskusji na temat etycznych zobowiązań i społecznej odpowiedzialności muzeum oraz powiązanego z nimi prawa odbiorców – niezależnie od ich wieku i pochodzenia – do włączenia się w proces współtworzenia instytucji.

Abandoned sites of trauma often become objects of art-based research. The forensic turn offered artists the requisite tools to approach uncommemorated post-violence sites to interact with their human and non-human actors. The usage of artistic methods allows us to inspect nondiscursive archives and retrieve information otherwise unavailable. The new wave of “forensic art” joins the efforts of post-war artists to respond to sites of mass killings. In the post-war era, sites of trauma were presented as (implicated) landscapes, or unhospitable terrains. The tendency to narrow space to the site and to contract the perspective is continued today by visual artists entering difficult memory grounds, looking down, inspecting the ground with a “forensic gaze”. A set of examples of such artistic endeavors, following the research project Uncommemorated Genocide Sites and Their Impact on Collective Memory, Cultural Identity, Ethical Attitudes and Intercultural Relations in Contemporary Poland (2016–2020) is discussed as “bystanders’ art.”

Abandoned sites of trauma in Poland appear to be forgotten, but their removal from social and cultural circles is only superficial. Frequently, these sites are inscribed into the local culture of memory and members of the local Polish communities can usually locate them and share stories about them. However, as they are not commemorated, there is an ambivalent aura around them. In 2017 two foundations (Zapomniane Foundation, The Matzevah Foundation) carried out an intervention into the landscape of Poland by marking thirty burial sites of Jewish victims of the Holocaust with simple wooden markers. The effects of that intervention shed light on the vernacular local memory of the Holocaust and the folk-traditional roots of the practices and behaviors related to these sites.

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