Dr hab. Katarzyna Mieczkowska - director of the National Museum in Lublin

She is a graduate of the Faculty of Political Science at Maria Curie-Skłodowska University in Lublin.

Director of the National Museum in Lublin, museum worker, certified curator, Doctor of humanities. She obtained a habilitation (post-doctoral degree) in the field of social sciences. She completed postgraduate studies in journalism and social communication at the University of Warsaw, management and marketing at the Lublin University of Technology, and museology at UMCS.

In addition, she completed a Master of Business Administration degree conducted in cooperation with the University of Minnesota at the Lublin University of Technology. In 2005, she began her research and teaching career at the Department of Local Government and Local Policy at the Faculty of Political Science at UMCS. She is also a graduate of the International Journalism and Society: The Role of the Media in the Modern World project at the London School of Economics and Political Science. In 2005-2009, she worked at the Academic Cultural Center, and then as a spokeswoman for Maria Curie-Skłodowska University. In 2010-2011, she was the Director of the Chancellery of the President in the Lublin City Office, and in 2012-2014 the Deputy President for Culture. In 2015, she became the director of the Lublin Museum in Lublin, today the National Museum in Lublin.

She is  the author of numerous publications in the field of local government, culture, museum studies, communication in museums, and designing museum exhibitions. She is a member of the Council for Museums and Places of National Remembrance at the Minister of Culture and National Heritage and numerous advisory and expert bodies. For her services to culture, she was awarded the Gold Badge "For the care of monuments" by the Minister of Culture and National Heritage, and the Medal of the President of the City of Lublin, as well as the UMCS medal for services to the Maria Curie-Skłodowska University.