“The Heritage of the Borderlands”

• 2008 - south-eastern Poland and western Ukraine

• 2010 - Lithuania

• 2012 - Belarus

• 2014 - Visegrad Countries

• 2016 - Silesia

• 2018 - Czech and Slovak Borderland
• 2020 - Pomerania and Masuria (seminar postponed)
• 2023 - Pomerania, Warmia, and Masuria
• 2025 - Częstochowa, Łódź, Greater Poland

• Poland: Wooden church of Dębno Podhalańskie, Niedzica Castle and Czorsztyn Lake
• Slovakia: The historic centre of Kiežmark and Lutheran church (UNESCO Site), the historic centre of Levoča (UNESCO Site), Spišský Hrad and Spišská Kapitula, the cloister of Červený Kláštor, castle of Stará L’ubovňa, the historic centre of Prešov, the historic centre of Košice and St. Elisabeth Cathedral Church, church in Cecejovce, the Jasov Premonstratensian Abbey, the Andrassy Family Mausoleum in Krasna Horka, the Betliar Manor, the medieval churches in Kocelovce, Ochtina, Stitnik, the historic centre of Bardejov (UNESCO Site), the wooden church in Hervartov (UNESCO Site), the Andy Warhol Museum in Medzilaborce, the Andrassy Family Mausoleum in Trebišov and church in Vel’ká Třńa, the wooden churches in Svatuse, Klin nad Bodrogom, Mala Bara, Leles; Vine House Ostrozovic
• Hungary: the historic centre of Eger, Budapest: the historic site of Buda Castle and historic center of Pest 

Cultural Heritage of Silesia
Poland – Czech Republic - Germany, 25^th August - 3^rd September 2016

During ten days the seminar visited of Silesia and focused on the heritage of this historical region, located mostly in Poland, with small parts in the Czech Republic and Germany. During the following days of the tour, participants visited, among others:

• Poland: Bielsko-Biała, Pszyna Castle, Cieszyn, Katowice (centre of the city, Nikiszowiec), Zabrze, Gliwice, Wrocław (Ostrów Tumski, Museum of Wrocław, The Centennial Hall, Szczytnicki Park, WUWA, National Music Centre), Brzeg Castle, Opole, Moszna, Głogówek, Nysa, Paczków, Otmuchów, Kłodzko, Henryków, Świdnica (The Churches of Peace), Książ Castle, Wałbrzych, Krzeszów, Polanica-Zrój, Lubiąż, Legnica, Jelenia Góra, Karpacz
• Polska / Niemcy: Zgorzelec/ Görlitz, Park Mużakowski/ Park von Muskau
• Czech Republic: Ostraca, Vitkovice, Opava

• Żywiec (city centre and the castle), Istebna (Church and Sanatorium), Wisła Castle (territory of Poland);

• Příbor (birthplace of Sigmund Freud), Nový Jičín, Hodslavice (Birthplace of František Palacký, Rožnov pod Radhoštěm (open air museum), Zilina, Kremnica, Banská Štiavnica, Banská Bystrica, Zvolen (city and the Castle), Svätý Anton, Bojnice, Trenčin (Castle), Nitra, Trnava, Bratislava (Slovakia Republic territory);

• Lednice-Valtice, Vranov nad Dyjí, Znojno, Brno (city centre and castle), Jan Nepomuk Church and Cemetery in Žďár nad Sázavou, Olomouc (city centre and Museum of Fine Arts), Kroměřiž Palace and Gardens, Luhačovice, Zlin, Mohila Miru, Rajhrad Abbey, Alfons Mucha Museum in Ivančice, Mikulov Castle (Czech Republic).

Częstochowa, Łódź, Greater Poland

20–29 August 2025

During the ten-day travelling academic seminar for Japanese researchers, participants visited, among others:

•   Jasna Góra in Częstochowa, the village of Konopiska.

•   Łódź – Księży Młyn, the Central Museum of Textiles, the Museum of Art ms1 (including the Neoplastic room), the Izrael Poznański’s complex – Manufaktura, the Jewish Cemetery and the Radegast Station, the Marek Edelman Dialogue Centre, EC1 – National Centre of Film Culture, Hilary Majewski’s House at Włókiennicza Street, Piotrkowska Street.

•   Biskupin, Gniezno – Museum of the Origins of the Polish State, Cathedral, Ostrów Lednicki.

•   Surroundings of Poznań: Licheń, Ląd, Pyzdry.

•   Poznań: Archeological site “Genius Loci”, Poznań Cathedral, Main Square, National Museum, Collegium Maius of Adam Mickiewicz University, Imperial Castle, Museum of the Poznań Uprising Museum - June 1956, Enigma Cipher Centre, Fort VII in Poznań – KL Posen, Jeżyce, Sołacz, Wilda.  

• Leszno, Wschowa, Siedlisko, Wolsztyn, Grodzisk Wielkopolski, Szreniawa – National Museum of Agriculture; Rogalin, Koszuty, Kórnik.    

An important element of the programme was the heritage of the Czech Brethren in Leszno and Wschowa, as well as at the Castle in Kórnik, where the Czech Brethren Archives from Leszno, included in the prestigious UNESCO Memory of the World Register, are stored.