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New Manitoba Museum boss confident about future, has personal connection to the power of artifacts By: Alan Small | Posted: 7:00 PM CDT Monday, May. 3, 2021 Save to Read Later
There was a new captain at the helm of the Nonsuch Monday and she’s ready for a new voyage.
There was a new captain at the helm of the Nonsuch Monday and she’s ready for a new voyage.
Dorota Blumczynska, the Manitoba Museum’s new chief executive officer and executive director, took over the top job Monday. She says the museum and its flagship, the Nonsuch, a replica of an 18th-century ketch that took part in the fur trade, is sailing through rough waters in 2021 yet both are buoyant enough to stay afloat amid the waves of the COVID-19 pandemic that have restricted the number of visitors it can welcome.
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This moment isn t actually as much about, perhaps, what I ve accomplished on the outside, but it is what I have risen against and what I have survived on the inside, she said during the conference, which was hosted virtually on March 27 at at Qaumajug, the new Inuit Art Centre that recently opened in Winnipeg. Leaving IRCOM does leave me to ask, Who am I if I am not this? Who am I if I am not here? And the wonderful thing is that the answer is that I am still me and I get to take me everywhere I go.
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As the Manitoba Museum s new CEO, Dorota Blumczynska will help steer the institution into the future while honouring the past
Dorota Blumczynska, new CEO of the Manitoba Museum, will officially begin her tenure in May.
Dorota Blumczynska remembers her first visit to the Manitoba Museum in 1989. She was nine years old, a recent newcomer to Winnipeg with her family, refugees from Communist Poland, and she didn’t understand much English at all.
Dorota Blumczynska remembers her first visit to the Manitoba Museum in 1989. She was nine years old, a recent newcomer to Winnipeg with her family, refugees from Communist Poland, and she didn’t understand much English at all.