Dr. Małgorzata Maria Grąbczewska

Royal Lazienki Museum in Warsaw

She graduated from the Department of Art History and from the Department of Interdisciplinary Individual Studies in the Humanities of Warsaw University, studied museology at Ecole du Louvre in Paris. She received her PhD in art history from the University of Gdańsk. In 2005–2011, she worked as a curator of the photographic collections of the Polish Library in Paris, then as assistant curator in Château de Compiègne. In 2012–2013 she was appointed deputy head of the Department of Iconographic Collections of the National Library in Warsaw and, between 2013 and 2016, worked as a cultural attachée at the Polish Embassy in Paris.Dr. M. M. Grąbczewska worked at the Polish History Museum and now works at the Royal Łazienki Museum, where she has been the Deputy Director since 2021. Professor of MBA Diplomacy in Vistula University, Warsaw.  

She is president of the Polish Association of Photographic Historians, a Board Member of the Association of European Royal Residences, and a member of many scientific associations in Poland and across Europe.  

She is also active as a researcher, curator, editor and author and translator of academic books. She has managed several research projects. She is author of several dozen scientific articles, critical and popular texts on the history of art in the 18th and 19th centuries, devoted to the issues of collecting, the relationship between politics and art, and photography.