T T H EH E M M U S E U M U S E U M N N E T W O R K E T W O R K OFOF S S E R B I AE R B I A

Dušica Živković Assistant Minister of Culture RS

THE FIRST PUBLIC COLLECTIONS: MID-19TH CENTURY

1842 - Collection of Antiques - by Society of Serbian Knowledge (a predecessor of SASA)

1843 - Serbian National Museum founded by Ministry of Education 1847 - Founding Edict of Matica Srpska Museum 1877 - The Town Museum - Bela Crkva 1878 - Serbian Military Museum - Belgrade 1882 - The Town Museum - Vrsac 1883 - The Town Museum - Sombor 1891 - The Town Museum - Kikinda 1891 - The Town Museum - Subotica 1907 - The Town Museum - Zrenjanin 1893 - The Natural Museum - Belgrade 1896 - The School Museum - Belgrade 1901 - Ethnographic Museum - Belgrade 1923 - Post Museum - Belgrade 1923 - The Museum of Forestry and Hunting - Belgrade

DEVELOPMENT OF THE MUSEUM NETWORK

1945 - Sabac 1945 - Uzice 1948 - Pec and Leskovac 1950 - Smederevo, Kraljevo and Kragujevac 1951 - Zajecar, Valjevo, Pristina, Djakovica, Cajetina and Arandjelovac 1953 - Cacak, Kosovska Mitrovica and Novi Pazar 1954 - Svetozarevo and Krusevac

SPECIALIZED MUSEUMS 1950 - Railway Museum

Museum of Applied Arts Serbian Museum of Theatre Arts

1952 - Film Archives Museum and Nikola Tesla Museum 1953 - Gallery of Frescoes 1954 - Museum of Serbian Orthodox Church and Museum of First Serbian Uprising 1959 - Historical Museum and Jewish Museum 1989 - Museum of Science and Technology

THE NETWORK OF MUSEUMS IN SERBIA - TODAY

The Ministry of Culture is fully financing the work, maintenance and programs of the 13 national museums:

1. National Museum - Belgrade2. Museum of Applied Arts - Belgrade3. Museum of Modern Art - Belgrade4. Ethnographic Museum - Belgrade5. Museum of Natural History - Belgrade6. Museum of Science and Technology - Belgrade7. Museum of Theatrical Art - Belgrade8. Historical Museum of Serbia - Belgrade9. Museum of Genocide Victims - Belgrade10. Gallery of Matica srpska - Novi Sad11. Historical Museum of Yugoslavia - Belgrade12. Open-Air Museum “Old Village” - Sirogojno13. Museum of Naïve and Marginal Art - Jagodina.

• The museum network employs 533 people • 50 museums based on the Decree of Museum Competency in the categories of cultural

......assets - 1+6 and by territory - 43

COLLECTIONS AND FINANCING

Collections of 13 National museums - 3.161.149 items • Natural history - 1.811.008 items• Archeological - 324.652 items• Historical - 38.080 items• Art collections - 162.865 items • Ethnological - 52.961• Photo and archive - 423.308

Collections of 43 regional, municipal and community museums - 1.064.533 items• Natural history – 22.937 items• Archeological – 615.880 items• Historical – 115.366• Art collections – 55,736 items • Ethnological – 81.896 items• Photo and Archive – 76.846 items

Financing• National museums are financed by the Republic• Regional museums are financed by their founders - communities, cities or provinces • The Cultural Policy of the Ministry inspires quality and diversity of programs of regional museums

by financing though competition – decentralization of cultural activities

CULTURAL POLICY

Cultural Policy in Serbia is governed by authorities at the level of:

REPUBLIC PROVINCE CITY MUNICIPALITY

The work of a museum is regulated by:• The Law on Culture• The Law on Cultural Assets• The Law on activities with special interest in culture• Other regulations related to culture

The main goals of Cultural Policy are:• domestic and international legislation – establisment and EU compliance• creating national data base of cultural assets• creating acreditation model for public and private institutions as well as personal licences • affirmation of significant centres • aplying principles of business policy• networking at national and regional levels – international co-operation • intensifying co-operation between institutions of culture and science• inproving contacts with public• digitalization of the records of cultural assets • active media role in informing about conditions in the field of cultural heritage and the ........improvement of social responsibility

CENTRAL INSTITUTE FOR CONSERVATION - CIK

CIK – interdisciplinary educational and scientific-research center, it is ranked with among institutes for research and development

CIK enables:

• forming a multidisciplinary professional and scientific base in a field of cultural heritage

• organization of education at academic and professional level in colaboration with universities• appliance of multidisciplinary research in fields of preventive protection and

conservation treatment• organization of unique documentation system in the field of protection• raising profesional level in heritage decisions• enhancing awareness of the importance and care of heritage preservation• improvement of comunication between all parts of the system of protection• wide range of publicity in all responsible institutions of government in the activities

of heritage preservation

DIGITALIZATION OF CULTURAL HERITAGE

The Ministry of Culture declared

• digitalization of cultural heritage is a strategic priority, and• initiatied a National Strategy of Digitalization of Cultural Heritage in 2007

The Goals of the National Strategy

• protection of cultural heritage• increased accessibility to all materials which consituted our cultural heritage • improvement of information technologies • creation of normative and infrastructural framework, which provides and .....inspires wide accessibility • use and exchange of cultural assets and ease of accession • widespread presentation of Serbian cultural heritage