Event: Museum Theatre and Mindfulness in Museums 18 July 2026 | 10:30–14:00 | National Gallery of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Sarajevo
The Balkan Museum Network, in partnership with the National Gallery of Bosnia and Herzegovina, is hosting a half-day event bringing together two compelling areas of contemporary museum practice: museum theatre and mindfulness-based approaches to visitor engagement and staff wellbeing.
RE-MIND Project Launch
The event will feature the presentation of RE-MIND, an innovative capacity-building project grounded in mindfulness methodology. RE-MIND explores how mindfulness practices can support the wellbeing of museum professionals and foster deeper, more meaningful experiences for visitors across generations.
Book Promotion: Museum Theatre – Communication with Audiences and Heritage Interpretation
The event also marks the promotion of a new book by Dr. Dragan Kiurski, museologist, heritologist, and museum educator at the National Museum in Kikinda, named the best museum professional in Serbia by ICOM Serbia. Published in late 2025, the book offers a scholarly foundation for museum education with a focus on theatre as a communicative and interpretive method. Dr. Kiurski is among the pioneers of contemporary educational programmes that have made the Kikinda museum widely recognised — through projects including the exhibition District of the Golden Lion and original monodrama and theatrical performances. His work places particular emphasis on developing participatory and critically engaged audiences, and on lifelong learning in the museum context.
In Conversation with the Author
Dr. Kiurski will be in conversation with museum educator Aida Šarac Berbić, who developed the Youth Museum Theatre programme at the Art Gallery of BiH. The programme engages adolescents around themes close to their experience — identity, social inequality, the right to emotional expression, and youth migration — with the aim of repositioning the museum as an active, accessible, and relevant space for young people. Its goals include empowering youth as active members of society, building creative and soft skills, and strengthening cultural awareness.
The formal programme will be followed by an informal gathering — an opportunity to network and exchange experience with heritage, education, art and culture professionals.
Registration
To attend, please confirm your participation by providing your name, institution, and contact email via the registration form.
The language of the event is Bosnian/Serbian/Croatian with no English translation.
The event is part of the project “RE-MIND: A Mindfulness-Based Capacity-Building Model for Digital Wellbeing and Intergenerational Audience Engagement in Museums”.
