In the period 2010 – 2014, 27 museum projects were supported in the Western Balkan region through the work of the Foundation Cultural Heritage without Borders.

1. Art Gallery of Fier
Our Museum, Our Cultural Heritage
Contact: Saimir Ahmeti
Producing audio-visual and written guides and establish a network of young
“cultural heritage safeguards”, an integrated group of disabled and non-disabled
young people; training them as facilitators in the museum. To build the
museum’s online presence.

2. Historic Museum, Shkodra
Access to a historical building
Contact: Fatmir Juka
To improve physical access to ancient parts of the museum by overlaying a
pavement above the uneven stone floor. Disabled and elderly visitors can now
visit the Archaeological Hall in the museum, which has previously been difficult
because of the rough stone floor. This means they can experience the building
itself, as well as the exhibits that are on display there.

3. National Historical Museum of Albania, Tirana
Museum in a suitcase
Contact: Etleva Demollari
To teach blind and partially sighted children about their heritage, the museum
designed a Museum in a Suitcase project focusing on Albanian epic songs of the
frontier warriors. Objects in the suitcase were labeled in Braille and there were
also tactile images.

4. Bosniac Institute – Adil Zulfikarpašić Foundation, Sarajevo
Our Heritage: Hear and Learn
Contact: Amina Rizvanbegović Džuvić
To address need to accommodate the needs of blind and partially alighted
people at the Intitute. Working with a local NGO, the University of Sarajevo and
working with a consultant from the Library for blind and visually impaired
people. To create audio descriptions of selected objects and narratives. to

5. History Museum of BiH, Sarajevo
Touch the History
Contact: Amar Karapuš
A project to improve access and inclusion for blind and partially sighted people,
including installing interpretation panels, creating a permanent tactile area,
creating an easy-read version of the website and starting an 80% reduction in
entrance fees for disabled people.

6. National Museum of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Sarajevo
Museum in a Suitcase
Contact: Samir Avdić
To develop an outreach programme based on working with objects and
interpretation which can fit within a suitcase so that it can be taken out to
people in their own spaces.

7. National Museum of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Sarajevo
Audio Tour
Contact: Tatjana Mijatoviç
To install bar codes near key objects with technology that triggers audio guides
when the code is scanned. The project was designed to improve access for blind
and partially sighted people and to enable them to visit the museum
independently.

8. Museum of Tešanj
Inclusion of disabled women in the culture through traditional house craft
Contact: Mensura Mujkanoviç
To create a supportive environment for disabled women to receive practical
training in wood and textile hand crafts. To work with other agencies to develop
cooperation between sectors and an innovative model of social inclusion and
empowerment for disabled women in Tešanj.

9. Museum of Tešanj
Children in Culture
Contact: Mensura Mujkanoviç
To empower and integrate families with disabled children into local communities
through craft workshops.

10. Zenica City Museum
Tactile replicas
Contact: Lejla Mahmić
Staff at the Museum commissioned an artist to create replicas of some key
artefacts from the collections. These have been designed to be as similar as
possible to the original objects, not just in how they look, but also in how they
feel to the touch. These replicas have attracted more blind people to the
museum and have also proved popular with other visitors. The museum learned
a great deal during the process and are even better placed to create more tactile
replicas in the future.

11. Museum of Republika Srpska, Banja Luka
We Can Do It!
Contact: Natasa Olenjuk
The Museum has an ongoing programme of workshops for disabled children,
including jewellery-making, painting and performance. The CHwB programme
allowed them to buy a potter’s wheel and to make a room accessible so that
children could also make their own pottery. The Museum held an exhibition of
the children’s work and their programme for disabled children has been featured
on local television

12. Gjakove Museum
Cultural heritage through touching and feeling
No current contact
This small museum created Braille labels and worked with local organisations of
blind and partially sighted people to choose objects from their collection that
could be explored through touch.
With very few resources, this museum achieved a great deal, organising an
exhibition that allowed blind and partially sighted people to access part of their
cultural heritage.

13. Museum of Mitrovica
Mitrovica j t'imae
Contact: Nora Prekazi
To create a new space with a digital approach to telling the story of Mitrovica,
with a DVD and raising awareness of cultural and ethnic diversity.

14. Museum of Peja
Close to the Cultural Heritage
Contact: Sefer Lajqi
To present the cultural heritage and artefacts of the museum more effectively
for disabled people. To organise drawing activities and present the activities at
Handikos, a local centre for disabled people. Project is aimed at creating a sense
of unity between disabled and non-disabled people. The project ends with an
exhibition of the disabled participants’ work.

15. Museum of Kosovo, Prishtina
Museum on Wheels
Contact: Alisa Gojani
Museum staff commissioned mobile units which provide a multi-sensory
experience of museum artefacts and interpretation with headsets and tactile
images. The units are taken out of the museum in order to reach out to people
who would not be able to visit the museum.

16. National Institute for Protection of Monuments of Culture and Museum,
Ohrid
Return to Memories o the Old Ohrid Fishing Boat
Contact: Goran Patchev
Restoring the old Ohrid fishing boat and present a multi-media exhibition with
promotional materials, souvenirs and models.

17. National Institute for Protection of Monuments of Culture and Museum,
Ohrid
Touch the Culture, Feel the Art
Contact: Goran Patchev
To adapt the museum’s collection in the Gallery of Icons for blind and partially
sighted people. They received training in producing tactile maps and worked
closely with the Union of the Blind in Ohrid to select objects for audio guides and
create maps, posters and interpretation panels.

18. National Museum of Macedonia, Skopje
Practical adaptations
Contact Violeta Gjorgjeska
The museum installed an adapted toilet for disabled people, to make their visit
to the museum more comfortable.

19. National Museum of Macedonia, Skopje
Music Includes and Unites Everyone
Contact: Violeta Gjorgjeska
To arrange visits by disabled people to the museum and to find ways of
supporting them to engage with the permanent museum display of ethnology.
The visits would centre around traditional musical instruments. Because the
gallery is on the first floor, this project has also involved work on a platform lift.

20. Museum of Yugoslav History, Belgrade
Bikeculture – pedaling through the history of New Belgrade
Contact: Marija Djorgovic
A cycle route through some of new Belgrade’s architectural highlights and
monuments is also, unintentionally, a way of making the city’s heritage to many
disabled people.

21. National Museum of Serbia, Belgrade
Models of medieval monasteries
Contact Ivan Kručičan
Museum staff commissioned an artist to produce models of six of Serbia’s most
important mediaeval buildings, to be located in the Museum’s Gallery of
Frescoes. They have Braille labels and are used as the focus for tours and
activities in the Gallery.
Blind and partially sighted people were involved in the process of designing and
making the models to make sure they were appropriate and useful. Once the
project started, it developed and grew so that an entire tactile tour was created,
which includes sounds and smells.

22. City Museum of Novi Sad
Bringing people and the museum together
Contact: Danica Ivančević
As well a developing a Museum in a Suitcase project, the museum at Novi Sad
worked on making their collections accessible and interesting for blind and
partially sighted people.

23. City Museum of Novi Sad
Practical adaptations
Contact Atila Hornok
Portable ramps mean that wheelchair users can access the City Museum of Novi
Sad for the first time. And a touch screen means that people who are not able to
get to the whole museum can still experience some of the objects on those parts
of the museum that are inaccessible to them.

24. Gallery of Matica Srpska, Novi Sad
Art and Inclusion – Inclusive Art Workshops
Contact: Snežana Mišić
To establish a safe and creative space in the Gallery for learning disabled people
to be able to respond creatively to each other and to the artistic resources. To
facilitate mixed groups of disabled and non-disabled people to work together,
exploring art and experiencing quality leisure time.

25. Museum of Smederevo
Virtual walk through Smederevo Fortress
Contact: Miroslav Lazić
The fortress of Sarajevo is challenging to access physically so the museum
thought of developing a virtual walk through the fortress. 3d photographs and
360 degree panoramic views to be accessed via the internet to provide views
from 30 different points in the fortress.

26. National Museum, Zrenjanin
Paint, present – Be a part of the community
Contact: Biljana Elekovic
To present informative and educational workshops run by professionals for
disabled people. To deliver painting workshops to encourage people to respond
to the work in the museum.

27. National Museum, Zrenjanin
Audio and video guide through permanent exhibition of the museum
Contact: Sanja Vrzić
To include blind, partially sighted, deaf and hard of hearing people in museum
activities, by improving interpretation of permanent exhibitions.