JOIN us on Friday, 30 September 2025 at 14:00 (CET) for the second part of the webinar “Beyond Displays: Six Ways Museums Create Connection and Change”.
The 60-minute session will feature three inspiring presentations that showcase how museums can foster connection, dialogue, and transformation through innovative practices.
Edona Rugova: From Vision to Landmark: The Making of the Mother Teresa Museum, Prizren
Why Mother Teresa, why in Prizren, why now? The presentation will trace the journey from the initial concept to the Mother Teresa Museum official institutionalization, highlighting the collaborative efforts of cultural heritage professionals, local authorities and the community. This session offers valuable lessons in heritage project development, cross-sector cooperation, and the power of cultural heritage to inspire collective memory.
Edona Rugova is a cultural heritage professional and Project Manager at Cultural Heritage without Borders – CHwB Kosovo. With over a decade of experience, she has led numerous heritage initiatives across Kosovo and the region, including the establishment of the Mother Teresa Museum in Prizren. Edona’s work blends strategic leadership with creative storytelling—curating exhibitions, developing accessibility strategies for heritage sites, and fostering cross-border cultural cooperation. With a Master in Arts and extensive contribution to several publications on cultural heritage and accessibility, she remains passionate about making culture and heritage a living force for inclusion, dialogue, and community development.
Adela Železnik: Threads of Solidarity and Care
The presentation will focus on my collaboration with a self-organized female collective No Border Craft, who create inclusive environment by crocheting together. The collective consists of female activists, refugees, and asylum seekers in Slovenia. They do not only practice crocheting as a social activity, but primarily to empower the participants who have considerably less opportunities to socially integrate in new environment than men. Our 10 year collaboration is partly personal, stemming from the time when the so-called »Balkan migratory route« expanded to Slovenia’s state borders, and partly, especially in the last five years also on institutional level, when Moderna galerija initiated also community based public programmes. The presentation will show how the two ways of collaboration intermingle and how social activities in the art museum can affect the institution and its content.
Adela Železnik, MA senior curator and museum counselor. She has been working at the Moderna galerija (MG+MSUM), Ljubljana since 1993, from 2011 at the Museum of Contemporary Art Metelkova (+MSUM) as a curator for public programmes. Her fields of interest are contemporary art and its context, collaborative practices and a museum in relation to the community. From 2015 – 20 she has been engaged in the activities with migrants and asylum seekers in Ljubljana and coordinated activities of museum cafe »Kantina« run by the local community of migrants.
Adela Železnik is one of the authors and a co-editor of the publication The Constituent Museum (Valiz 2018) and e-publication From/To. Letters From/To the Constituent Museum (L’Internationale OnLine, 2022).
Irina Stepanova
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The webinar will be facilitated by BMN Secretary General Aida Vežić.
