We participated on the international conference: Intangible heritage a challenge for management and collection policy held in Zagreb, 17 – 20 October 2019. The conference is organised by ICOM SEE and Ethnographic Museum, Zagreb. The conference is organised to celebrate the 17th October as International Intangible Heritage Day since it was the day when in 2003 the…
The Best in Heritage Conference
This week we proudly participated in the 18th annual The Best in Heritage conference, which took place from 25 to 27 September in Dubrovnik. The Best in Heritage project from the very beginning enjoys high patronage from the International Council of Museums (ICOM), and since 2009 the conference has been organized in partnership with the leading…
Guide to the Permanent Exhibition
A guide to the permanent exhibition of the Betina Wooden Shipbuilding Museum has been published! The 148-page guide, enriched with photographs, provides a historical overview of the Betina shipbuilding industry from the eighteenth century to the present time, with a vivid insight into the process of designing the permanent exhibition, and conveys the most important…
Summer fun at Betina Museum
Discover what’s on this summer in Betina and in our Museum… Save your dates!
Betina Week of Folklore
During Betina Week of Folkore two wonderful evenings were held in front of our musuem. First, we opened the Exhibition of Scarfs from the collection of our Melita & Ajka, members of Zora Cultural Association. We talked with the authors of the exhibition and learned more about the motifs on the scarves, what type of scarf…
Opening of the Betina Museum’s open-air exhibition
On Saturday, June 8th, we opened our open-air exhibition. The minister of culture of the Republic of Croatia, Nina Obuljen Koržinek, personally attended the opening ceremony. Guided by the director of our Museum and the Mayor of the Municipality of Tisno, she visited the museum outside the walls – traditional wooden boats in the harbour…
European Heritage Award / Europa Nostra Award 2019 for Betina Museum of Wooden Shipbuilding
The winners of the European Heritage Awards / Europa Nostra Awards 2019, Europe’s most prestigious honour in the field, funded by the Creative Europe Programme, were announced today by the European Commission and Europa Nostra, the leading European heritage network. We’re proud to announce that, among this year’s winners in the category Education, Training and Awareness-raising, the Award…