Commission to Preserve National Monuments
Project “My Bosnia and Herzegovina – My Heritage” 2010
R E P O R T
The preparatory stage of the project consisted of the following programmatic activities:
1. setting up the structure to lead and manage the project
2. defining partnership involvement
The following activities were carried out under heading 1 above:
- project leadership team formed
- Aleksandra Bunčić, Project Coordinator
- Aida Bucalović, Project Assistant
- Arijana Pašić, Project Assistant
- Ševal Tvrtković, driver
- plan drawn up for the expenditure of funds from the first tranche of the project ($6,580.00)
The following activities were carried out under heading 2 above:
- letter sent to schools and museums participating in this year’s project
- TREBINJE: Jovan Jovanović Zmaj Primary School, Sveti Vasilije Ostroški Primary School and Vuk Karadžić Primary School, in association with the Herzegovina Museum in Trebinje
- TRAVNIK: Travnik Primary School and its Han Bila branch in association with the Regional Museum in Travnik
- BOSANSKI PETROVAC: Ahmed Hromadžić Primary School in association with the Jovan Bijelić Memorial Museum in Bosanski Petrovac
- LIVNO: Fra Lovro Karaula Primary School and Ivan Goran Kovačić Primary School in association with the Museum of the Franciscan Monastery in Livno
- visits to the museums to agree dates for workshops and to gather documentation and photographs as working materials for participants:
- 2 March 2010: meeting with Veseljka Salatić, director of the Herzegovina Museum in Trebinje
- 10 March 2010: meeting with Enes Škrgo, curator of the Regional Museum in Travnik
- 11 March 2010: meeting with Milica Kecman MA, director of the Jovan Bijelić Memorial Museum in Bosanski Petrovac
- 15 March 2010: meeting with Josip Gelo, director of the Museum of the Franciscan Monastery in Livno.
Stage One of the Project covered the following activities:
- Production of a museum notebook for participants:
- initial concept with specific questions for each museum – Aleksandra Bunčić
- specific terms for glossary for the notebooks – Aida Bucalović
- preparation, printing and binding the notebooks – project implementation team
- “My Bosnia and Herzegovina – My Heritage” workshops for primary school pupils:
- LIVNO, 13 April 2010: approx. 60 participants
- TREBINJE , 27 April 2010: approx. 40 participants
- BOSANSKI PETROVAC, 6 May 2010: approx. 110 participants
- TRAVNIK, 7 May 2010: approx. 30 participants
- The children in Livno were split into two groups; the first group worked in the Gabrijel Jurkić gallery, and the other on a mock archaeological dig in the Museum’s lapidarium
- The children in Bosanski Petrovac were also split into two groups; the first worked in the Jovan Bijelić Memorial Museum, and the other learned about weaving techniques. On completion of their tasks, the groups changed places
Stage Two of the Project covered the following activities:
- Competition opened for art, literary and model entries; competition closed on 18 June 2010. At the request of the schools, the competition has been extended to the start of the new school year
- Processing entries received (scanning, identifying techniques etc.)
- Preparation of documentation for web site and publication of the project (photographs, drawings, map of monuments etc.)
The participants submitted a report on their achievements to the Project Coordinator.
During stages one and two, two reports were drawn up for the US Embassy, consisting of a financial and a narrative report.
APPENDICES:
Gorica Franciscan Museum in Livno...
“My Bosnia and Herzegovina, My Heritage” Workshop
LIVNO. A workshop has been held for pupils from Livno’s school in the Gorica Franciscan Museum in Livno, on the subject “My Bosnia and Herzegovina, My Heritage.” This was an educational workshop designed to acquaint the children with what happens in museums, and was attended by about 70 children who were given the opportunity to experience part of the museum process. The children were also able to find out how finds are discovered, excavated, cleared, catalogued and published, and a presentation of the children’s work will later be held at the Gorica Museum in Livno along with a special publication. The project is being carried out with the support of the US Embassy in Bosnia and Herzegovina. |
Newspaper article on the first “My Bosnia
and Herzegovina – My Heritage” workshop,
held in the Museum of the Franciscan
Monastery in Livno on 13 April 2010
The article appeared on page 10 of Dnevni list
on 16 April 2010
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13. 04. 2010, Livno
Children from two schools in Livno filling in their museum notebooks in the
Museum's lapidarium
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13. 04. 2010, Livno
Children recording their impressions after the workshop
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13. 04. 2010, Livno
After the workshop: the children who took part in the “art group”
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13. 04. 2010, Livno
Children from the “archaeololgy group” with the artefacts they excavated during the workshop
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27. 04. 2010, Trebinje
The workshop began with instructions from Božana Palikuća, curator of the Herzegovina Museum in Trebinje
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27. 04. 2010, Trebinje
Herzegovina Museum, 2nd floor
Children identifying artefacts and filling in their museum notebooks
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6. 05. 2010, Bosanski Petrovac
Children at the Jovan Bijelić Memorial Museum
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7. 05. 2010, Travnik
Children looking at an exhibit in the Regional Museum
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6. 05. 2010, Bosanski Petrovac
Children looking at a portrait in the Jovan Bijelić Memorial
Museum
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7. 05. 2010, Travnik
Children from Travnik Primary School making drawings of the images on a Roman stele
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The development of museum pedagogy
A dark place where some things are kept
A museum is a dark place where some things are kept. This phrase was heard yesterday at the National Museum of Bosnia and Herzegovina to illustrate how most primary school children imagine a museum to be. To change this perception – which they need to be taught from an early age – the first annual conference on the professional development of museum pedagogy, with the title “Towards Linking Pedagogy and Democracy,” has been held in the National Museum of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
The aim of the conference, held by the National Museum in association with the Faculty of the Humanities of the University of Sarajevo, Department of Pedagogy and Chair for the History of Art, and sponsored by the US Embassy in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Office of Culture and Public Affairs in Sarajevo, was not only as described in the introduction to this article but also to provide an experiential and active contribution to the development of the idea of democracy and pedagogy in museums as educational institutions in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Ronald Hawkins, cultural and education attaché at the US Embassy in Bosnia and Herzegovina, welcomed the conference participants, saying that the conference was being held to enhance the quality of education and of the preservation of the cultural heritage. The initiator of the conference was Chicago-based Professor Patrick Roberts (who was unable to attend for health reasons), who has visited many institutions in Bosnia and Herzegovina and noticed that they are not networked, and that they need more dialogue and encounters. Academician Prof. Dr. Adila Pašalić-Kreso, who heads the Department of Pedagogy at the Faculty of Philosophy in Sarajevo, said that the purpose of making use of all public assets for educational purposes is not to create better professionals, but to create better citizens of our homeland and our culture, to present that culture as well as possible, and to appreciate it not individually or on an ethno-national basis but as our common heritage of Bosnia and Herzegovina. Marica Filipović, deputy director of the National Museum of Bosnia and Herzegovina, said that the institution where she works has already been holding workshops over the past few years, which has also attracted visitors. An.Š
Newspaper article published in Oslobođenje, 28 May 2010
The first annual conference on the professional development of museum pedagogy, “Towards Linking Pedagogy and Democracy,” held in Sarajevo on 27 May 2010.
The conference was held by the National Museum in association with the Faculty of the Humanities in Sarajevo (Chair for the History of Art and Department of Pedagogy) and sponsored by the US Embassy, Office of Cultural and Public Affairs.
Aleksandra Bunčić, Project Coordinator for “My Bosnia and Herzegovina – My Heritage,” presented the basic aims of the project and its activities to date
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Front pages of the museum booklets: |
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List of schools and institutions taking part in the project:
Contact details – schools:
Town |
School |
Contact person |
Telephone |
Address |
Travnik |
Travnik P.S |
Kemal Bajramović, principal |
030/ 512 389, 518 697
fax 030/511 197 |
Školska bb, Travnik
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Travnik |
Han Bila, branch school |
Nedžad Begić, principal |
030/ 562 402 (and fax) |
Han Bila bb
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Bosanski Petrovac |
Ahmed Hromadžić P.S. |
Hafiza Kulenović, principal |
037 881 047
037 883 336 (fax) |
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Trebinje |
Jovan Jovanović Zmaj P.S. |
Milorad Stevović, principal |
059/ 260 996, 272 670 |
Oktobarska 1, Trebinje |
Trebinje |
Vasilije Ostroški P.S. |
Dragan Mrzić, principal |
059/285 150 (and fax) |
Gorička 19. Trebinje |
Trebinje |
Vuk Karadžić P.S. |
Spasa Zotović, principal |
059/271 720 |
Miloša Crnjanskog 4, Trebinje |
Livno |
Ivan Goran Kovačić P.S. |
Darko Jozić, principal |
034/ 202 115 |
Želimira Župana 25, Livno |
Livno |
Fra Lovro Karaula P.S. |
Miran Šesto, principal |
034/ 201 484 |
Svetog Ive bb, Livno |
Contact details – museums:
Institution (museum/gallery) |
Contact person |
Telephone/fax |
Address
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Herzegovina Museum, Trebinje |
Veseljka Salatić, curator for art history, director |
Tel: 059 271 060 (and fax) |
Stari grad 59, Trebinje
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Museum of the Franciscan Museum in Livno, Gorica |
Josip Gelo, museum director |
Tel: 034/ 200 922, 200 923
063/ 344 699 |
Gorička cesta bb, Livno
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Jovan Bijelić Memorial Museum, Bosanski Petrovac |
Milica Kecman MA, director |
Tel: 037 882 475 (and fax) |
Ulica bosanska 111, Bosanski Petrovac
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Travnik Regional Museum |
Fatima Maslić, director |
Tel: 030 518 140, 541 590, 541-591 |
Mehmed paše Kukavice 1, Travnik |
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