MUSEUM EDUCATION IN SEMI-PERIPHERIES: SOCIAL, CULTURAL AND ECONOMIC ASPECTS OF THE GLOBALISATION OF POLISH AND SLOVAK HERITAGE INSTITUTIONS

The paper examines the problem of change in Central-Eastern European museum education in the globalising world. The main objective is to answer the question of whether museums located in peripheral regions of semi-peripheral states introduce patterns developed in global core-states or maintain the approach invented during the former political period. Its main assumption is that globalisation is a discursive process engaging global, national and local cultural elements, leading to reshaping of local patterns. The paper is based on 14 in-depth interviews conducted with curators working at local museums of the Sub-Carpathian and Košice regions, supported by four interviews carried out with museum workers of national museums in Warsaw and Bratislava.