Museum e-Know@ll – culture and virtual adventure

Dealing with museum pedagogy for the past 40 years, the curators of the Museum of Vojvodina have been designing programs for all visitor categories. One of the main goals of their diverse activities is the creation of the permanent museum audience. In order to achieve this goal, interesting exhibitions and

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Museums teaching children human rights

Toolkit with best museum practices in teaching human rights to children in an inclusive workshops is being made as part of the project “Tinkering and Making for Human Rights– improving cultural participation of children with disabilities”. The focus is on Bosnia and Herzegovina, but examples coming from other Balkan regions

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Museum Archaeology in Serbia and the Myth of Museum Neutrality

Aiming to start conversations on different topics relevant to museums and heritage community, we bring you the English translation of an article which was published in Issues in Ethnology and Anthropology 13 (3), 575–594  by Tatjana Cvjetićanin (National Museum, Belgrade) titled “Museum Archaeology in Serbia and the Myth of Museum

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ALBUM – innovative museum programme

The project Album was carried out in fall 2017 by three partner museums from the city of Zagreb and financed by the Ministry of Culture. It was initiated by Željka Sušić, a museum educator adviser from the Typhlological Museum in cooperation with the Ethnographic Museum and the Technical Museum Nikola

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Tactile Exhibition travels from Northern Macedonia to Serbia

At the National Museum of Leskovac, on December 24, 2019, visiting tactile exhibition from the collection of the National Institute and the Bitola Museum, Republic of Northern Macedonia, opened. The exhibition shows 20 tactile images of objects from the rich collections of the Museum in Bitola, as well as tactile

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Fifth member museum conducts Access Survey

The Archeological Museum of the Republic of North Macedonia is the fifth member of the BMN to undergo the process of access survey. Two access consultants from BMAG (Bakan Museums Access Group) Irena Ruzin and Milena Milosevic Micic conducted a field visit to the museum interviewing the management and the

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Practical and inclusive museum workshops for children

The first inclusive workshop for children with and without disability has been held in the Herzegovina Museum Trebinje on 29th November. Twelve (12) children took part in the workshop titled “Pigeon Post Station Trebinje”.  The workshop presented traditional and for today’s standards, unusual way of communication. The origins of “pigeon

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European project for individuals with sensory disabilities

BMN takes part in a European project on inclusion of disabled people in museums. “Towards a Multisensory and Inclusive Museum for Individuals with Sensory Disabilities” ( ToMiMEUs) is supported by the Erasmus + programme (KA202 – Strategic Partnerships for vocational education and training) and led by the Transylvanian Museum of

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Cultural operators pair up to design innovative and experimental cooperation

Twenty-three participants from the six Western Balkan countries met in Belgrade (12-16 November 2019) in the Center for Cultural Decontamination for the Partner Forum for the first Tandem Western Balkans programme. Representatives of associations and public institutions from different artistic, cultural and heritage disciplines in their focus, got acquainted with

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#MuseumsforFuture – Join the campaign!

#MuseumsforFuture is a global movement of museum workers, cultural heritage professionals, and many others to support the #FridaysForFuture movement with positive actions. It is time to put museums’ potential into action! SHOW THAT YOU ARE PART OF THE MOVEMENT AND COMMUNITY BY ALSO TWEETING OR POSTING SOMETHING WITH #MUSEUMSFORFUTURE. The

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