Wiktor Zin

He was also featured in "Klub pod Smokiem" (Club Under the Dragon), "Szperacze" (The Seekers), "Spotkanie z zabytkami" (A Meeting with Landmarks), "Dźwięk i linia" (The Sound and Line), "Być tutaj" (To Be Here), "Nad Niemnem, Piną i Prypecią" (On the Niemen, Piną and Prypeć Rivers) "Spotkanie z prof. Zinem" (Meetings with Professor Zin), "Sztuka patrzenia"(The Art of Looking), "Nasze korzenie" (Our Roots), as well as "Opowieści domu rodzinnego" (Tales of the Family Home).

Towards the end of his life he occupied the position of the Protector of the European Academy of Art in Warsaw, the director of the Polish Board of Urban and Architectural Landmark Conservation at the Kraków University of Technology, the Director of the chair of Art History and Culture at the University of Information Technology and Management in Rzeszów, a lecturer at Akademia Górniczo-Hutnicza in Kraków as well as the chancellor of the awards council for the medal "Polonia Mater Nostra est".

Zin was active until the end of his life – he died suddenly on 17 May 2007 as he was preparing for class with students at the University of Information Technology and Management in Rzeszów.

Eulogies were given by friends, colleagues, former students, the vice-minister of culture and national heritage as well as representatives of the city of Kraków, Hrubieszów and the voivodship of Lesser Poland.

The lowering of the coffin into the ground was accompanied by the music of a traditional Góral funeral ensemble as well as two trumpeters who played the works Hejnal, Barka and "Va Pensiero" from the opera Nabucco by Giuseppe Verdi.

During the early 1980s as a vice-minister of Culture and Art he signed an agreement to return by April 1982 all of the exhibits brought to the National Museum in Warsaw after World War II from Gdańsk.