Robert Zydel
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Robert Zydel | |
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| Director of the E. Wedel Chocolate Factory Museum | |
| Assumed office 2023 | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 1976 (age 49–50) |
| Education | Institute of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology University of Warsaw |
Robert Zydel (born 1976 in Warsaw) is a Polish ethnographer, market researcher, and cultural and advertising manager. He was Director National Museum of Ethnography in Warsaw from 2021 to 2023 and the originator of the Vistula Ethnographic Expedition.[1] He introduced a new visiting policy at the museum, also opening it to animals.[2] He has been Director of the E. Wedel Chocolate Factory Museum in Warsaw since 2024.[3]
From 2014 to 2020 he worked at the City of Warsaw, where he headed the City Marketing Office.[4] He was responsible, among other things, for campaigns encouraging people to pay personal income tax in Warsaw,[5] as well as coordinating the Night of Museums.[6] He served as a juror in the Effie Awards marketing effectiveness competition, including in 2016, 2020 and 2023.[7][8][9] He was also a member of the board of the Polish Society of Market and Opinion Researchers from 2020 to 2022.[10] He was a member of the Museum Council at the Adam Mickiewicz Museum of Literature in Warsaw from 2021 to 2024.[11][12]
Zydel is the author of books and articles:
- Malarz nad malarzami : Nikifor w kolekcji Państwowego Muzeum Etnograficznego w Warszawie (2022)[13]
- Bojarska K., Kącka E., Zydel R., Szerszeń T., Przeciwko ostrości widzenia. O „Wszystkich wojnach świata” Tomasza Szerszenia, Konteksty. Polska Sztuka Ludowa, 2021/4, s. 184[14]
- P. Cichocki, T. Jędrkiewicz, R. Zydel, Etnografia wirtualna, [w:] Badania jakościowe. Metody i narzędzia. Tom 2, red. D. Jemielniak, Warszawa 2012, s. 203–222.[15]
