47 research outputs found
A Lion, an Elephant and an Occasional Bird: Stories at the Museum A Project for the Promotion of Reading
The Croatian Government declared 2021 the Year of Reading based on the proposal by the Ministry
of Culture and Media. This implemented the measures of the Action Plan of the National
Strategy to Promote Reading, adopted in 2017, that contribute to the development of reading
culture and encourage reading with pleasure and understanding. The Ethnographic Museum
joined the Year of Reading with the project A Lion, an Elephant and an Occasional Bird: Stories
at the Museum, financed by the Ministry of Culture and Media
The First Hundred Years: What Have We Learnt? A Century of Museum Education at the Ethnographic Museum
The paper addresses the issue of development of educational activities in the Ethnographic Museum in Zagreb throughout its first 100 years of activity. During the first years of operation of the Museum educational activities were evident primarily in the work of the curator Mirko Kus-Nikolajev, despite the fact that there was no conceptualised approach to educational activities in the Museum at the time. Several decades later, in the second half of the 20th century a conceptualised approach was formulated by the first museum educators: Aleksandra Sanja Lazarević and Nada Majanović. Today, the educational programme is currently being developed in accordance with the contemporary trends in museum education, which focuses on different groups of museum users and highlights the social responsibility of the Museum
Paul H. Stahl, Hausehold, Village and Village Confederation in Southeastern Europe, Columbia University Press, New York 1986, 247 (10] str. (Eastern European Monographs, No. CC)
Learning through Play: Educational Programmes with the Exhibition Project Toys – Childhood Forever
The text presents an overview of educational programmes held with the exhibition
project Toys – Childhood Forever. The programmes were held for
different groups of museum visitors: kindergarten groups, elementary and
secondary school students, university students, old-age pensioners, members
of vulnerable social groups, adult individual visitors and families. The key
elements of learning are interactions through play and emotional engagement
as essential factors of museum experience