Access Group in Action
Members of the Balkan Museum Access Group (BMAG) have been very active in the past months visiting four museums, members of BMN. National museum of Leskovac; House of Leaves, The Museum of Secret Surveillance; Museum of Vojvodina; and Institute and Museum Bitola that applied to be the venue of access
Communicate, challenge and provoque through storytelling
BMN Interpretation Working Group has met for the first time in a two-day training! November rain in Belgrade did not minimize the good spirit of team working and learning. Eleven museum and heritage professionals were led by very inspirational trainer Janja Sivec through several topics related to interpretation of cultural
Crafting Access in Homeland Museum Knjazevac
The second Crafting Access training took place in October as an opportunity for colleagues from museums to share their experience and efforts to make their museum more accessible for disabled people. Four day long training gathered museum professionals, representatives of disabled people and craftspersons from Serbia, Bulgaria and FYR Macedonia
BMAG received The Zero Project’s award
Balkan Museum Access Group (BMAG) has been recognised as an innovative practice by the The Zero Project, an initiative of the Essl Foundation, that focuses on the rights of persons with disabilities globally. The Zero Project provides a platform where the most innovative and effective solutions to problems that persons
One MUSEUM – a lot of HOPE
The National Museum of Leskovac is implementing a project that will bring closer disabled children of this town to the Museum and their heritage. The project “One museum – a lot of hope is focused on providing equal access of disabled people to culture and the Museum, as well as
Make your museum a better place
The Balkan Museum Network invites its institutional members to apply for a new access survey project which aims to detect museums barriers to Deaf and disabled people, and make recommendations for improvement. The Access Survey will be done in consultation with the museum’s staff within a couple of days (depending
BMN Assembly meeting 2017
Balkan Museum Network has held Association’s annual Assembly meeting in Prishtina on 8th of April 2017, during the 5th «Meet, See, Do» conference. Members of the BMN Steering Board Atila Hornok, Irena Ruzhin, Elma Hašimbegović, Tatjana Cvjetićanin, Jonathan Eaton, and Zana Hoxha presented the results that have been achieved in the past
Small Grants for the Best Museum Projects
16 member museums of the Balkan Museum Network applied on the Small Grants call with project ideas focused on access and inclusion of Deaf and disabled people in museums, and digitization in museums. Three out of 16 applications were granted and these are projects of the National Museum of Leskovac
Time to elect four new members of the Steering Board
Should you wish to apply to become a Balkan Museum Network’s Steering Board member, please review The Call for Applications and The Guidelines for the Applications. Candidates for the BMN Steering Board should have experience preferably in the museum field or in the heritage field, must be a member of
Call for Proposals: Interpretation Workshops
The Balkan Museum Network (BMN) is inviting individuals, professional associations, companies and public institutions to submit a proposal for two two-day interpretation capacity building workshop. The workshop is aimed at members of the Interpretation Working Group that would contain up to 15 museum and heritage professionals from 7 countries of