Balkan Museums without Barriers #2 in Skopje
International two day conference around access and inclusion took place in the Holocaust Memorial Center for the Jews in Macedonia on 20 – 21 June 2018, gathering 40 museum professionals and disabled people from more than 20 towns of the Balkans. “Balkan Museums without Barriers #2″ conference served as a
Meet, See, Do 2018 in beautiful Thessaloniki
After inspiring and stimulating Meet, See, Do conferences in Sarajevo, Tirana, Novi Sad, Shkoder and Prishtina, we were very excited to hold sixth Meet, See, Do conference in Thessaloniki, yet another great Balkan cultural setting. Annual Balkan Museum Network conference “Meet, See, Do – a conference that makes the difference” took
The Best Crafts-based Souvenir 2017 award
During BMN annual conference Meet, See, Do in Thessaloniki “The Best Crafts-based Souvenir” award was presented. After receiving eleven (11) applications through an open call and after the selection process, the first place has been awarded to the Bosniak Institute – Foundation Adil Zulfikarpasic from Bosnia and Herzegovina for their
Awarded small grants 2018 to five museum projects
Since 2013, Cultural Heritage without Borders has used grants from different donors to finance and administer the Small Grants programm of the Balkan Museum Network. In the last five years 27 projects have been funded with more than 100.000 euros. 2018 call, just like the previous two, has been enabled
Meet, See, Do 2018 info book
The conference Info Book contains summaries of the sessions, biographies of the lecturers and facilitators and the complete list of the participants. For all that are not able to join us on the Conference that Makes the Difference see the info book and follow us on Social Media.
Museum Souvenir of 2017
Does your museum produce original souvenirs based on your museum’s collections? Do you engage crafts persons in the production of souvenirs? For the first time, The Balkan Museum Network is inviting institutional members of the Network to submit an application for “The best craft-based museum souvenir of 2017″. Recognizing the
Small grants 2018
APPLICATIONS FOR SMALL GRANTS 2018 ARE OPEN! If you have developed a projects proposal dealing with either access and inclusion of Deaf and disabled people in museums or interpretation of cultural heritage, apply to CHwB B&H and BMN grant. Maximum total amount requested can be up to 4.000 EUR. A
“Meet, See, Do” Call for Applications
We invite museum and heritage professionals from the Balkan region (Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Greece, Kosovo, Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Montenegro, Romania, Serbia and Turkey) to submit an application for the sixth international museum conference “Meet, See, Do”. You can apply either as workshop facilitator or as
Inclusive workshops and the digitisation process
Zenica City Museum finalized the implementation of the project “3D MUSE” which produced new museum services, developed educational activities and material, as well as improved the museum infrastructure and established new partnership, involving around 200 persons in total. The results of the project are a good basis for the continuation
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