Dorota Ignatowicz-Woźniakowska – graduate of the Faculty of Conservation and Restoration of Works of Art of the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw in 1987, has done postgraduate studies at the Academy of Heritage (5th edition, 2009–2011) of the International Cultural Centre in Krakow and the Małopolska School of Public Administration of the Krakow University of Economics. Since 1994 she has been the Chief Conservator of the National Museum in Warsaw, directing a staff of 46 in seven studios and the Laboratory, winner of Polish (SYBILLA) and foreign (Denkmal, Leipzig) awards. She is a member of the group for standardizing conservation in museums, of the National Institute of Museology and Collections Protection (since 2012) and of the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage experts’ group for preserving the Polish cultural heritage (since 2005). She has curated the following exhibitions: “Sztuka ocalała” [Art that survived] (Museum of the History of Industry in Opatówek, 1996), “Sztuka konserwatorów” [The conservators’ art] (Museum in Łowicz, 2006; Museum of Interiors, Otwock Wielki, 2007). She is a co-organizer of art charity auctions, “ziarno SZTUKI – ogród NADZIEI” [A seed of art, a garden of hope], for Fundacja Psychoonkologii “Ogród Nadziei” [Psycho-Oncology Foundation “Garden of hope”] supported by the National Museum in Warsaw (since 2007).