A guide to the export and import of cultural goods between Russia ...

Poland
Bilateral agreement in the fi eld of culture,
science and education (Dz. U. 94.36.133 of
21 March 1994)
Protocol signed in 2006 between the
Ministry of Culture and National Heritage and
Roskultura for 2006–2008 (paragraph 14: cooperation
of Polish and Russian institutions
dealing with protection and conservation of
cultural goods)
Who is responsible for implementing these
regulations?
The Minister of Culture and National Heritage
(Minister Kultury i Dziedzictwa Narodowego)
is responsible for issuing ‘onetime
permits’ for exports of cultural goods.
This is done after consultation with a committee
of experts in the areas of protection
and safeguard of cultural goods.
The institution authorised to deal with the
permanent export of cultural goods abroad
is the State Centre for Protection of Public
Collections. However, applications first
pass through provincial ‘Voivodship’ offices
for the protection of cultural goods, where
a preliminary examination of the object is
made. There are some 50 Voivodship offices
and they are under the authority of the
Ministry of Culture and National Heritage.
Jarosław Kozakiewicz,
“Relations”, 2004, installation.
Kozakiewicz’s work was exhibited in
‘Beyond the Red Horizon’, a vast exhibition
of contemporary Polish and Russian art
which took place at Warsaw’s Centre for
Contemporary Art at Ujazdowski Castle in
late 2004 and at the National Centre for
Contemporary Arts in Moscow in spring 2005.
The exhibition was the fi rst confrontation of
this size of the newest artistic currents from
both countries. It aimed to be “a platform of
communication, a forum for dialogue between
works created in Poland and Russia”.
© Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski
Castle in Warsaw
Photo: Mariusz Michalski
The Voivodship offices for the protection
of cultural goods also issue permits for
the temporary export of cultural goods
and certificates confirming that objects
mentioned in art. 59 of the Act of 23 July
of 2003 do not require a permit for export
abroad. Other institutions which issue these
permits and certificates are authorised National
Museums (National Museum in Warsaw
for the Mazovia Voivodship, National
Museum in Wrocław for the Lower Silesian
Voivodship). The National Library and the
Supreme Directorate of State Archives is-
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