Robert Zydel

Robert Zydel
Director of the E. Wedel Chocolate Factory Museum
Incumbent
Assumed office
2023
Personal details
Born1976 (age 49–50)
EducationInstitute of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology University of Warsaw

Robert Zydel (born 1976 in Warsaw) is a Polish ethnographer, market researcher, and cultural and advertising manager. He was Director National Museum of Ethnography in Warsaw from 2021 to 2023 and the originator of the Vistula Ethnographic Expedition. He introduced a new visiting policy at the museum, also opening it to animals. He has been Director of the E. Wedel Chocolate Factory Museum in Warsaw since 2024.

From 2014 to 2020 he worked at the City of Warsaw, where he headed the City Marketing Office. He was responsible, among other things, for campaigns encouraging people to pay personal income tax in Warsaw, as well as coordinating the Night of Museums. He served as a juror in the Effie Awards marketing effectiveness competition, including in 2016, 2020 and 2023. He was also a member of the board of the Polish Society of Market and Opinion Researchers from 2020 to 2022. He was a member of the Museum Council at the Adam Mickiewicz Museum of Literature in Warsaw from 2021 to 2024.

Zydel is the author of books and articles:

Awards

In 2020, Robert Zydel was awarded the Gold Cross of Merit for promoting the commemoration of the Warsaw Uprising.

References

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  11. ↑ "Uchwała nr 164/204/21 Zarządu Województwa Mazowieckiego z dnia 2 lutego 2021". Muzeum Literatury (in Polish). Retrieved 2026-03-14.
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  13. ↑ Tkaczyk, Natalia; Figiel, Joanna; Koźmińska, Marianna; Kalinowska, Joanna; Kroh, Magdalena; Migdał, Jadwiga; Sobieraj, Leonard; Zydel, Robert; Zalewski, Józef, eds. (2022). Malarz nad malarzami: Nikifor w kolekcji Państwowego Muzeum Etnograficznego w Warszawie = A painter unlike any other: Nikifor in the collection of The National Ethnographic Museum in Warsaw = Hudožnik nad hudožnikami: Nikifor u kolekcìï Deržavnogo Etnografìčnogo Muzeû u Varšavì. Warszawa: Państwowe Muzeum Etnograficzne w Warszawie. ISBN 978-83-88654-14-5.
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  16. ↑ "Prezydent: Powstańcy Warszawscy to bohaterowie naszych czasów". Oficjalna strona Prezydenta Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej (in Polish). Archived from the original on 2022-05-22. Retrieved 2025-07-28.