The subject taken in the article is the analysis of innovation in the culture. This leads to the broad description of the development of EU policy in this context. Later in this article the author analyzes both the disadvantages and advantages of existing approaches – in relation to culture as artistic activities and management in this sector.

Implementation of the organizational changes is one of the most emphasized needs of public cultural institutions. One of the instruments increasing effectiveness of management of such institutions are organizational innovations. In this paper on the basis of the literature analysis the most important defi nitions of organizational innovations were presented, as well as the benefits of implementing this type of innovations. In the end some limitations of this research were pointed.

The intention of the paper is to present benchmarking as a tool thanks to which public organizations are able to make changes and improve public services. The main purpose of the article is to present the way benchmarking is put into practice following the example of the venture called The Exchange of Experiences Group in the management of public services. Article describes schedule of the work in the venture, explores factors which facilitate conduct of the project and also points the barriers in applied approach

The objective of this paper is to outline the management issues of contemporary museums. The article attempts to identify the place of museums in public space, taking into account changes occurring in this matter. It also identifies possible directions of development of museum institutions, assuming that the priority in their operation, is a task relative to community living here and now, not an imaginary group, described as vague notion of “future generations”.

The article discusses the effects of development strategy on management at the Historical Museum of the City of Kraków. The authors have concentrated on discussing the organizational innovations resulting from the assumed strategic objectives. The strategy implementation process and the corresponding barriers have been presented in the article as well

This article is the case study of a public cultural institution, which after years of stagnation made an attempt to accept a challenge of participating in a considerable international project. The goal of the research was to defi ne reasons for taking this decision, problems which occured during introducing the project and consequences for the institution after the implementation of this innovation.