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Chopin Institute🎞️ Less than a month ago, on 26 May, the Scientific Information Department of the Fryderyk Chopin Institute organized the conference “Archive of Tomorrow: Safeguarding against Annihilation” at Chopin’s Birthplace in Żelazowa Wola. For several years, we have been working intensively on digitizing and preserving Fryderyk Chopin’s musical manuscripts and correspondence (and, more recently, the most important collections of Polish music stored in archives and libraries across the country). We want this unique heritage, of inestimable value, to be accessible to future generations for thousands of years to come. We focused on ways to ensure that this one-of-a-kind legacy survives safely for centuries, protected from any imaginable threat – whether it be war damage or natural disasters. We chose technology from the Norwegian company Piql, which has developed a method for preserving digitized collections on film. The culmination of the process of securing the valuable manuscripts is the placement of the tapes on which they are recorded in the World Arctic Archive in Svalbard – the Fryderyk Chopin Institute has already made two deposits there. A short documentary about the Archive and the conference is available on our YouTube channel 👉 @chopininstitute ___ Production: camera - Filip Drożdż archival footage - NIFC, PIQL, ArchiPeak, Kościół Pokoju Świdnica sound - Mateusz Irisik editing and colouring - Tomasz Chłopek titles - Filip Dowjat executive producer - Urszula Bielicka press photos – Jakub Mozolweski 👤 Featured in the above video: Justyna Marciniak (PWM), Jędrzej Sabliński (PIQL Polska / Archipeak), Bendik Bryde (PIQL Norway), Joanna Żebrowska-Cielek (Centrum Projektów Polska Cyfrowa), Kamil Pielaciński (NIFC)
On the profile · Jun 22, 2026