Wychowanie historyczne, wychowanie patriotyczne. Muzeum realne i wirtualne – na przykładzie Centralnego Muzeum Jeńców Wojennych w Opolu/Łambinowicach

The sociological approach to the problem of upbringing in the virtual world prompts us to deal not so much with the narrowly understood school education as with the broader process of socialisation taking place in different groups, institutions and systems of culture characterised by F. Znaniecki, A. Kłoskowska, B. Sułkowski and P. Bourdieu. The subject of this study includes one of the most important historical museums – the Central Museum of Prisoners-of-War with its two seats (Opole, Łambinowice), dealing especially with prisoners-of-war from World War II – victims of German and Soviet totalitarianism: post-camps areas, necropolises as well as documents and relics of prisoners (archives and museum collections). This is a museum in situ, active in the fields of exhibitions, education, science, and publishing, taking care of regional, national, and European heritage. In autumn 2022, I conducted a study in two localities which concerned virtual functioning of the memorial museum (CMJW) as well as the cultural (historical and artistic) competencies of two hundred secondary school students and the transmission of knowledge through the systems of culture: families, local and supralocal institutions, mass media, internet. A pedagogical experiment and sociological study showing the limited knowledge of students but also interest in its broadening via new forms of communication in the hybrid reality.