Łukasz Bukowiecki, PhD, is a scholar of cultural studies, a cultural sociologist, and a museum historian. Assistant professor at the Department of Contemporary Culture at the Institute of Polish Culture, University of Warsaw. In 2019, he defended his doctoral dissertation with distinction on unrealised museum projects in Warsaw in the 20th century. Between 2018 and 2021, he held a postdoctoral contract at the Centre for Social Memory Research, Faculty of Sociology, University of Warsaw, as an investigator in the international research project ECHOES, funded by the Horizon 2020 programme. He conducts interdisciplinary research on the cultural history of museums in Poland and the Baltic Sea region, focusing on the construction and protection of cultural heritage, social memory practices, and the circulation of urban imaginations.