MUSEUMS ANd CONTESTEd HISTORIES Saying The Unspeakable In Museums
THE INTERNATIONAL COUNCIL OF MUSEUMS MAGAZINEN o 6 june 2017Museums and contested historiesSaying the unspeakable in museums
a word from presidentThe year of changesFrom contentAlthough it may sound as a cliché, the yearbehind us – 2016 – was really a year ofgreat changes when ICOM is concerned. In early July 2016, a new management of thegoverning body of this respectable internationalorganization was elected at the General Assembly in Milan. The elected president of ICOM wasSuay Aksoy, an experienced museologist, a professor of museology and heritology at Mimar SinanFine Arts University in Istanbul, a woman withan interesting educational profile which is a synthesis of economy, political sciences, museologyand great professional experience with ICOMAdvisory Committee and CAMOC ExecutiveBoard – the international committee focusing oncities, their museums and collections. The election of the new president strengthened the idea ofthe museum serving the public and redefining theICOM role on the world’s cultural and politicalstage. Along with these changes, ICOM also received a new visual identity and adopted new Statutes in Milan in 2016.4Milan 2016From New identity to New Statutes5Intermuseum 2016Successful Start of Cooperation6International Museum DayA Big Joint CelebrationThe wave of changes also swept the ICOM Serbia National Committee in 2016. Two extraordinary assemblies and one regular assembly was held, a decision on the change of Prize AwardingRules was made, the process of making amendments and supplements to the Statute was launched, new members of the Executive Board and committees were elected. A new concept anddesign were developed for the magazine. We witnessed many oscillations since the NationalCommittee worked without subsidies in 2016. However, it is maybe owing exactly to theseobstacles, that over the past year and a half, even in the face of the objective difficulties, we havebeen recording major results in our work. In May last year we carried out the first stage of ourcooperation programme with the colleagues from ICOM Russia by paying a visit to the largestmuseum festival in the Russian Federation – Intermuseum – where our National Committeepresented a part of its activities and the largest museum event in Serbia – The Museums ofSerbia, Ten Days from 10 to 10. Our delegation at the General Conference in Milan was smallerthan planned, but we took an active part in the work of the General Assembly, with our membersbeing elected to ICOM’s influential international boards. Finally, towards the end of the year,we organized a seminar on education and work with the audience at the Kolarac Endowment,which was a huge success. With no funding, but with great enthusiasm and remarkable results.The crisis thus became an accelerator in the process of positive events, so we greeted 2017ready to continue the trend of quality changes. We made a closer connection with the Museum Society of Serbia, and this year, to the delight of Serbian museum professionals, wecelebrated together the International Museum Day at the Museum of Vojvodina in Novi Sadon 18 May. On this occasion we presented awards to the colleagues who had distinguishedthemselves over the past period, and brought under the wing of two professional organizations the newly established award “Museum for 10”, which is presented to the most successful participants in the event we jointly support.We established an even closer connection with the ICOM SEE Regional Alliance and agreedon new forms of cooperation. This May at the Historical Museum of Serbia we organizedwith joint efforts a round table discussion on ICOM’s theme for this year: Museums andContested Histories: Saying the Unspeakable in Museums.The changes – both good, and particularly bad ones – as well as the whole sequence of turbulent events caused by the imposed rationalization, staff cuts, and other forms of crises anddisturbances that did not spare even the great, respectable museums in the country, made usbond even stronger, make efforts to adopt joint positions and launch joint actions. We areaware that there are many things that should be changed, but what is important is that wehave started in that direction. icom serbia 3Slavko Spasić8EventsMuseums of Serbia, Ten Days from10 do 1010Professional TrainingInternational Training Centre forMuseum Studies, Beijing14ConferencesRevitalization of Heritage in Southeast Europe15SeminarsEducation and Work with Audience17ExhibitionsA Feast for the French Audience
24TH GENERAL CONFERENCE MILAN 2016From new identity to new statutesMore than 3,000 members of the International Council of Museums took an active part in the24th General Conference in Milan, in the period 3–9 July 2016. Among the attendees were therepresentatives of ICOM Serbia NC as wellSince July last year ICOM has had a newpresident – Professor Dr. Suay Aksoy,museologist from Turkey with the reputation as one of the leading authorities inthe ICOM Advisory Committee before shewas elected to this high position. With thenew president came the new strategy for thethree following years, focusing primarily onthe enhancement of museum public servicesand communication with local community. At the General Conference, a new visualidentity was introduced and new Statuteswere adopted, being a kind of suggestion tothe national and international committees,and also to regional alliances to bring innovation to their own Statutes and other workregulations.The ICOM Serbia delegation to the GeneralConference in Milan was considerably moremodest and included fewer members thanwhat was provided in the proposal adoptedby the National Committee Assembly in December 2015, within the 2016 Agenda, sincewe had not been granted the requested subsidies. Therefore, only colleagues who had received the ICOM General Secretariat granttook the trip to Milan – Slavko Spasić, president of ICOM Serbia NC, Željko Anđelković(National Museum, Niš) and Natalija Ćosić(Central Conservation Institute). Two of ourcolleagues paid for their own trip to Milan– Katarina Babić (Memorial Park “Kragujevački oktobar”), who gave an excellentpresentation during the ICOM session, andGordana Milanović, the representative of theGolubinci Eco-Ethno Museum Foundation,who took part in the Ecomuseums and Community Museums Forum.At the session of national committees held on3 July, Slavko Spasić gave a presentation ofthe event Museums of Serbia, Ten Days from10 to 10, prepared in cooperation with Dr. Biljana Djordjević, who served as a coordinatorof this largest museum event in our countryin 2015–2016.Two members of the ICOM Serbia NationalCommittee were elected to the executiveboards of international committees. SonjaZimonić, director of the Museum of Scienceand Technology, was elected to the CIMUSET (The International Committee for Museums and Collections of Science and Technology) board, while Tamara Ognjević, directorof Artis Center and vice-president of ICOMSerbia, although absent, was elected to theICOM MPR (International Committee ForMarketing And Public Relations) board.4 icom serbia
INTERMUSEUM 2016 MOSCOWSuccessful start of cooperationWe had the privilege to be guests of our colleagues from ICOM Russia at the largest museumfestival in the Russian Federation last MayInterMuseum is the largestmuseum event in the Russian Federation, organizedunder the patronage of theirMinistry of Culture, ever since1999. Each May, 300 chosenmuseums, as well as the guestsfrom abroad, present the bestfrom their museum productionto the professional and culturalpublic at the Moscow Manege.While this grand event is indeed partly a museum fair, theaccompanyingprogrammesfeature a scientific conference,a large center for education ofmuseum professionals, the place for meetings and exchangeof professional knowledge, andalso of communication withexperts who contribute to thepromotion of museum practicethrough their work. InterMuseum ends with the presentationof most diverse awards for theprevious year – from the bestmuseum award, to the one forthe work with volunteers; theaward for the institution or individual that has most contributedto the international cooperation;to acknowledgements to the media which drew attention to museum activities in some specialway, and many other categories.In 2016, the main theme of the18the InterMuseum was Museum without Borders. Social Mission of the Museum in the Context of Intercultural Dialogue. Numerous activities heldat the Manege from 16 to 19 May were divided into five thematic sections: 1) MuseumPotential in the System of Social Support:Strategies and Mechanisms of Interaction; 2)Museum and Local Community; 3) Museumas a Place for Dialogue and Understandingof “Others”; 4) Museum Education; and 5)Museum Language: How to Communicatewith the Visitor.The vice-president of ICOM Serbia, TamaraOgnjević, whose paper titled Museum andModern Communication – the Challengesof Spectacle, was accepted into the regularicom serbia 5Text and photos: Tamara Ognjevićconference procedure of the 18th InterMuseum, suggested to the colleagues from ICOMRussia, with whom she had been cooperating since 2014, to consider the possibilityof presentation of the new museum event inSerbia – Museums of Serbia, Ten Days from10 to 10, and thus establish the platform forthe cooperation of the two committees. HerRussian colleagues accepted her suggestionand sent a letter of invitation to the presidentof ICOM Serbia, Slavko Spasić, to be a guestat the InterMuseum 2016. In this way, onepart of the international museum public gained an insight into the work of ICOM Serbia and found out about the largest museumevent in our country. At the same time wewere given a tremendous opportunity to getacquainted with the work of some of the Russian museums, get a view of an extremelywell-conceived event established in closecooperation with the state that has a clearlydefined cultural policy, make contact withnumerous colleagues from Russia and other countries as well (USA, Great Britain,China, Italy, Iran, The Netherlands, Belorussia, etc.). The Russian peers showed greatinterest in the activities of Serbian museumsand in the problems we face, and expresseda wish to broaden, promote and enhance theinter-museum cooperation since we have alot to offer to each other.
THEMe MMuseums, Neutrality and”All the Other Stuff”The concept of controversial or dissonant histories, the problem of the unspeakable in museums, is a delicate field which ICOM chose as a theme in 2017. Are museums selective inchoosing the contents which they present to the public? What do they reluctantly present? Arethere examples of the good practices in the critical relation to the past? Why is the transformation of museums important in this field of communication?Text: Višnja Kisić / Photos: ICOM, Artis CenterFor most of us who cooperate with museums, work in them, or dream about becoming museum professionals someday,the museum is the place of emancipation for thepublic and the place of democracy in knowledgeand culture. Most people would hardly opposethese enlightening ideas about the museum as atemple of knowledge, pride and beauty, becauseeven those who do not visit museums still consider them important, as examples of civilisedcommunity, and agree that they should exist.Indeed, the research studies show that museumsenjoy a unique position of trust regarding the information they offer, considerably more compared to those who bring decisions – governments,parliaments or media, because citizens see themuseums as the “keepers of factual information” who present “the whole picture”, provenknowledge and neutrality.If, however, we look into any musealization process, we cannot help but notice that what citizenssee as “the whole picture”, the “factual information” or the “neutrality“, is in fact the product ofthe value-based process of selection, preservation and communication of the museum artefacts.Those objects, if presented as the direct, unproblematic evidence of the past, serve to normalizecertain ways of perception, learning, dividingand valuing. It is therefore important to see themuseum not as an apolitical temple of neutrality,but as an interpretative medium – an interpretation device – which legitimizes or delegitimizescertain ideas about the world and the society.By this device we make certain identities, socialrelations and positions, appear contiguous andgood, while at the same time discarding everything that does not relate to that picture, makingit seem weird, strange, trivial or even unfriendly.MAYSelective Pictures of the PastINTERNATIONALMUSEUM DAYMuseums and contested histories:Saying the unspeakable in tionalmuseumday@ICOMofficielDo we ever wonder how the servants on the Nemanjić court or in the Versailles felt like? Whydoes the British Museum, in spite of the artefactsbrought from the whole world, never speak about the colonization and imperialism? How democratic was the ancient Greece for women, slaves,non-Greeks and all the “others“? Why ČučukStana is not as much of a hero as Hajduk Veljko?How did the working classes live in times of thegreat benefactors, such as Weifert or Kolarac?What happened to the Germans and Hungariansin Vojvodina after World War II? Do we knowhow many mosques in Kosovo and Bosnia wereburned by Yugoslav National Army, when weremember the destroyed Orthodox monasteriesin Kosovo? What did the wars from the nineties mean, beyond the narrative about the ethnic6 icom serbia
MUSEUMS AND CONTESTED HISTORIESconflicts, and who profited from them? All thesequestions are, as a rule, not asked in museums,and therefore all these perspectives, events andvoices are often left out of the public sphere, public interest and public thinking.When we begin to wonder about all that is missing, we notice that the apparently universalpicture of the past presented in museums, almostas a rule, is actually the picture of the dignitaries(male, privileged, and often rich), of the life andvalue system of the elite, important and greathistorical events, the pride and homogeneity ofthe society. Even when museums deal with thesubjects which are hard for our society, they mostoften do that by offering only one view of reality– in a way which cements our current power relations; the ideas about who is good or bad; whois the victim or the criminal; and in which, mostoften, “we” (the majority, our society, ethnicalcommunity) play the “positive” role.Everyday life beats this homogeneity of the pastas soon as we are ready to stop and ask what isleft out from it, and perspectives of which wedo not notice. Depending on your gender, sex,social status, ethnicity, religion, political views,your interpretation of a certain event will varyconsiderably, producing conflicting statementsand dissonant voices. This dissonance, multipleperspectives and the disagreements are the presumptions of the democratic social and politicalspace. From this aspect, preserving of the neutrality, universality and apolitical views as thebasis of the museum professional ethics, seem tobe the most potent way to the social manipulation, palliation and disguising of the social divisions, as well as the supporting of the status quo.The Missing Historyand Other StoriesROUND TABLE AT THE HISTORICAL MUSEUM OF SERBIAWith reference to ICOM’s theme for thisyear, Museums and Contested Histories:Saying the Unspeakable in Museums,ICOM Serbia, ICOM SEE Regional Alliance, the Museum Society of Serbia and theHistorical Museum of Serbia organizeda round table discussion titled Museumand Hard History – Repressions and Fearin the Great War, held in this national institution on Saturday, 20 May. The participants of this highly dynamic dialogueincluded Dr. Dušica Bojić, director of theHistorical Museum of Serbia, Dr. DragoNjegovan, director of the Museum of Vojvodina, president of the Museum Societyof Serbia; Dr. Biljana Djordjević from theNational Museum in Belgrade, ICOM SEEsecretary; Dr. Višnja Kisić, secretary ofEvropa Nostra; Goran Kličković, specialistin medical psychology from the MilitaryMedical Academy, Belgrade; and, as amoderator, Tamara Ognjević, MA, directorof Artis Center and vice-president of ICOMSerbia. Since a large number of attendingaudience also took an active part in thewell-substantiated confrontation of views,it was concluded that such kind of publicdebates should be organized more often.After the official programme, the visitorsenjoyed the expert-guided tour of the Serbia 1915–1916 exhibition with museumadvisor Nebojša Damnjanović.of General Cohen, the colonizer of Indonesia inXVII century, and thus also tackled the themeof glorifying the Dutch colonial past and its repercussions today. There are, also, the examplesof the non-museum organizations, which use themuseum as a medium through which they dealperspective, thus posing the question of the gender positions today. Similar to this is the example of the project Personal Memories of the virtual museum of the Croatian citizens’ personalmemories of the wars from the nineties, which,through personal experience, problematizes theofficial narrative of the Homeland War, and thestrict division between the aggressors andWhen we begin to wonder about all that the victims, which even today divides theCroatian society. We need much moreis missing, we notice that the apparently such examples of museum activities.Although they are still rare, somemuseums today try to organize thebasics of their institutions differently, and to become places where thepast is viewed critically and serves touniversal picture of the past presentedopen the important questions aboutBy silencing or ignoring the voices ofthe present moment and the societythose who do not comply with the domiin museums, almost as a rule, isin which we want to live. Such is, fornant model, by avoiding hard and painfulactually the picture of the dignitariesexample, the project Mining the Mutopics, by not recognizing the multilaye(male, privileged, and often rich), of theseum of a Baltimore museum, whered past, and by not indicating the mecre the Afro-American community,hanisms of social control and hegemony,life and value system of the elite,together with the artist Fred Wilson,we cannot build a society which is moreimportant and great historical events, the humane, equal and conscious than the sosearches the museum storerooms andexhibits permanently the artefactscieties we live in. For such an enterprisepride and homogeneity of the society.which were previously hidden, andwe need the museums which recognizewhich testify about the slave-holdingtheir political aspects, which are openlyhistory of Baltimore, raising the question about with difficult subjects. Such is the example of critical of themselves, of the one-sided history,the place of the Afro-American in the American the project The Missing History, which collected the “glorious“ past and today’s society, whichsociety today. Such is, also, the example of the the histories of the women in Boka Kotorska, bring forward the problematic questions, pointmuseum in the town Horn in Netherlands, which that do not exist in the public discourse in Mon- to what is left unsaid, notice the unnoticed andhas, through the exhibition and the public debate tenegro. In this way they offered a new interpre- are not afraid to offer the space for different ancalled The Cohen Case, initiated the public trial tation of history, which includes the women’s swers and disagreements.icom serbia 7
FESTIVALS INTERNBig joint celebrationIn a joint celebration of the International Museum Day, ICOM Serbia and the Museum Society ofSerbia gathered colleagues from all over the country in Novi Sad. The awards of the MuseumSociety, ICOM and the event Museums of Serbia, Ten Days from 10 to 10 were presented at thegala ceremony held at the Museum of VojvodinaText: Tamara Ognjević / Photos: Milica Djukić, Tamara OgnjevićThe custom of museum professionalsgathering once a year, even for suchan event as the International MuseumDay, is a rarity indeed. This year, however,at the proposal of Dr. Drago Njegovan, president of the Museum Society of Serbia, therepresentatives of the profession assembledin the Museum of Vojvodina, Novi Sad, on18 May. Two museum associations and theFounding Board of the event Museums ofSerbia, Ten Days from 10 to 10, agreed topresent awards granted annually to the mostsuccessful professionals at the gala ceremony of the International Museum Day. Onthe same occasion, directors of the Ethnographic Museum and the Museum of Vojvodina, Dr. Mirjana Menković and Dr. DragoNjegovan, signed a protocol of cooperationbetween these two institutions.A bright, sunny day, high spirits and colleagues that had arrived from all parts of thecountry made the atmosphere in the gardenof the Museum of Vojvodina festive andenjoyable. The gathered crowd was welcomed by Vanja Marković, representative ofthe Serbian Ministry of Culture and Information and Miroslav Štatkić, Provincial Secretary for Culture, Public Information andRelations with Religious Communities. Inhis address, professor Štatkić reminded theattendees of the role of the museum as aninstitution linking the knowledge from thepast with the factors effecting the shapingof the future.In the year when the Museum of Vojvodinaand the Gallery of Matica Srpska celebratetheir 170th anniversary, the motive for theMuseum Society of Serbia and ICOM tocelebrate together the International MuseumDay in Novi Sad was given a dimension ofquite an important jubilee relevant for theentire museum community in Serbia. Therefore, the prestigious awards were presentedto the institutions and individuals for theircontribution to the museum activities in2016 in a particularly festive atmosphere.The Museum Society of Serbia granted itshigh award “Mihailo Valtrović” for 2016to Dr. Dušica Bojić and Aleksandra Nin-ković Tašić, co-authors of the exhibitionin the Historical Museum of Serbia Pupin– from Physical to Spiritual Reality, whilethe lifetime achievement award went to thelong-term director of the National Museumin Kraljevo, Dragan Drašković. The awardswere presented by Dr. Drago Njegovan.ICOM’s award for the institution of theyear was jointly received by the Museumof Applied Art and the National Museum inBelgrade for their active participation in alarge-scale international project Ceramicsand Its Dimensions. The curator of 2016 isDr. Nikola Krstović, employed until recently at the Open Air Museum “The Old Village” in Sirogojno, while ICOM’s project ofthe year award was presented to Artis Centerin Belgrade for its project Living the Past– Serbian Medieval Gastronomy. Accordingto the decision of ICOM’s awarding committee, the publication of the year is a bookby Dr. Simona Čupić, John Kennedy and the“New Frontier” of the Culture. Mona Lisaand Superman, published by the Galleryof Matica Srpska. ICOM presented its tra8 icom serbia
INTERNATIONAL MUSEUM DAY 2017In the year when the Museum of Vojvodina and the Gallery of Matica Srpska celebrate their170th anniversary, the motive for the Museum Society of Serbia and ICOM to celebratetogether the International Museum Day in Novi Sad was given a dimension of quite animportant jubilee relevant for the entire museum community in Serbia. Therefore, theprestigious awards were presented to the institutions and individuals for their contributionto the museum activities in 2016 in a particularly festive atmosphere.Aleksandra Ninković Tašićshared “Mihajlo Valtrović”award with Dušica Bojićditional certificates of appreciation for thepromotion of museum activities this year tothe journalist Teodora Ž. Janković and Rotary Club, both from Novi Sad. The awardsand certificates were presented by SlavkoSpasić, president of ICOM Serbia NationalCommittee.The founding board of the event Museums ofSerbia, Ten Days from 10 to 10 granted thisyear’s award Museum for 10 to the collea-gues from the following establishments:Gallery of Contemporary Fine Arts, Niš; theTown Museum of Sombor; the HomelandMuseum, Jagodina; the Homeland Museum,Petrovac on Mlava; the Museum of Vojvodina; the Museum of Yugoslav History; theMuseum of Naive Art “Ilijanum”, Šid; theMuseum of Ponišavlje, Pirot; the NationalMuseum Leskovac; and the National Museum Šabac. The awards were presented byNeda Knežević (left), the Museumof Yugoslavia director, receivedMuseum for 10 awardBojana Borić-Brešković, MA, director ofthe National Museum in Belgrade, and Dr.Tijana Palkovljević-Bugarski, director ofthe Gallery of Matica Srpska.After the awarding ceremony, the colleagues from the Museum of Vojvodina gavean expert interpretation of the exhibitionTreasures from the Beehive – from the Museum of Matica Srpska to the Museum ofVojvodina 1847–1947–2017.The Museum of Applied Arts and NationalMuseum in Belgrade jointly received ICOMInstitution of the year 2016 awardicom serbia 9
MUSEUMS OF SERBIA TENThe visiting museumThis year in May the museums of Serbia organized their – now already traditional – ten-dayevent. This time the idea was the mutual exchange, that is, visiting each other. It was the extraordinary chance for the public, which might otherwise never come to some towns, to see themuseums from the whole countryText: Anita Radeta / Photos: Museums of SerbiaThe national museum event Museumsof Serbia, ten days from 10 to 10 washeld this year for the third time, under the patronage of the Serbian Ministry ofCulture and Information. The united common initiative of eight national museums– the founders of this event, to promote thecultural heritage in this way, was also supported by the ICOM Serbia National Committee.In 2017, from 11 to 20 May, the event included the important dates – the International Museum Day on 18 May, the EuropeanMuseum Night, held on 20 May this year,as well as the National Museum Week. Therefore, the public in Serbia thinks of Mayas of the museum month, although one ofthe aims of the event Museums of Serbia, tendays from 10 to 10 is to point out that themuseums are open to the public the wholeyear round.well as lectures offering new insights aboutthe visiting museum.Every year the number of participants constantly grows, so that this year 90 cultural institutions took part in the event – museums,galleries, archives, libraries, cultural centresand related cultural institutions. Free entrance during ten days, together with extended opening hours from 10 am to 10 pm,offered the public in 40 towns and in over120 locations the opportunity to enjoy theexhibitions and accompanying programmesprepared by the participants. The keynoteThe Visiting Museum, which was the mottoof this year’s manifestation, besides visitingexhibitions from other museums, also brought about other concepts which these museums presented – the workshops which included the children in museum activities, asFrom Subotica in the north of the countryto Vranje in the south, over 100 exhibitionswere organized, as well as a number of accompanying programmes – lectures, workshops, open studios, author and expert guiding, which daily introduced the public withthe culture, tradition and art.This year some new participants joined theevent. Thus the participation of the ModernGallery Valjevo, “Defence” Media Centre,that is, the Army Hall Gallery in Belgrade,state company “Djerdap” National Park,Trstenik Museum, Spoon Sweets Museum– the Cvetić Family House in Kraljevo, andothers, enriched the event with their originalprogrammes and promoted the importanceof common museum initiative.10 icom serbia
TEN DAYS FROM 10 TO 10The Historical Museum of SerbiaALMOST HALF A MILLIONVISITORS IN TWO YEARSIn 2016, during the event Museums of Serbia, ten days from 10 to10, over 200,000 visitors took theopportunity to enjoy the culturalheritage of Serbia. In 2017, morethan 90 museums and similarinstitutions all over Serbia welcomed over 250,000 visitors in theten days of May, while the eventlasted.The HomelandMuseum KnjaževacThe National Museum Kraljevoicom serbia 11Through the themes of this eventin 2016 and 2017 – My Museum,My Town and The Visiting Museum– the museums and the relatedcultural institutions drew the attention to the place and the role of themuseum in the local community,as well as the inter-museum relations, and the entire relation ofthe museum, town and culturallandscape. These themes express the intention of drawing moreand more people to museumsand motivating them to participateactively in museums and their development.
Interview A stronger impulsefrom the state is called forThe Historical Museum of Serbia (HMS) has been drawing attention of the local cultural audiencewith exclusive, dynamic exhibitions and interesting, educational programmes. From the use of augmented reality to museum theatre, the experts of this distinguished national institution – headedsince 2014 by Dr. Dušica Bojić, historian, museum advisor, but first of all, an energetic directorunafraid of modern museology challenges – implement extremely well-attended programmesFText: Suzana Spasić / Photos: Iva Jotić Luburarom the very beginning of your term ofoffice you introduced many innovationsand a busy schedule into the operation ofthe Historical Museum. It happens that visitorswait patiently on the steps so that they can go inand see the exhibitions organized by the museum,while, paradoxically, one of the largest and mostimportant museums in the country does not haveits central building.That is a key issue in the evolution of the Historical Museum of Serbia. It was founded in 1963 ina single room at the address Terazije 10, and in afew years it grew to three rooms with several curators. When the ministry building in NemanjinaStreet was built in 1966, the museum was movedonto the seventh floor and had nine offices, withone room in the basement serving as a depot andconservation workshop. The accounting department was on the ground floor, in a windowlessoffice. In 2001
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