Open AccessROMAN TUBAJA (1944–2021)
Author(s) -
Jan Święch
Publication year - 2022
Publication title -
muzealnictwo
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.101
H-Index - 1
eISSN - 2391-4815
pISSN - 0464-1086
DOI - 10.5604/01.3001.0015.8229
Subject(s) - ethnography , exhibition , architecture , art history , promotion (chess) , art , history , national museum , visual arts , archaeology , politics , political science , law
On 17 April 2021, Roman Tubaja, an ethnographer,museum curator, and a long-standing directorof the Ethnographic Museum in Toruń named after MariaZnamierowska-Prüffer, passed away. Born on 16 February1944 in Warlubie, Kociewie, he graduated in ethnographyfrom the Jagiellonian University in 1966. As of 1967, heworked at the Ethnographic Museum in Toruń continuingthere throughout all his career, and moving up the entirepromotion ladder. Having been appointed Head of the FolkArchitecture Department in 1970, in 1978, he was promotedto become Deputy Director for Research, while on 1 April1980, he was assigned to become Director of the EthnographicMuseum in Toruń, which he remained for almost 30 yearsuntil his retirement in 2009. An excellent logistician, during histerm of office he consistently extended and modernized theMuseum, doubling the volume of the collection; furthermore,he held team stationary ethnographic research in the regionsforming Gdansk Pomerania. Roman Tubaja’s academic outputis made up of almost 40 papers tackling folk architecture aswell as history and theory of ethnographic museology, ofconceptual works, and of numerous conference speeches.He also authored several museum exhibitions.