1. T H E M U S E U M N E T W O R K OF S E R B I A Dušica Živković Assistant Minister of Culture RS

2. T HE F IRST P UBLIC C OLLECTIONS: MID-19TH CENTURY 1842 - Collection of Antiques - by Society of Serbian Knowledge (a predecessor of SASA) 1843 - Serbian National Museum founded by Ministry of Education 1847 - Founding Edict of Matica Srpska Museum 1877 - The Town Museum - Bela Crkva 1878 - Serbian Military Museum - Belgrade 1882 - The Town Museum - Vrsac 1883 - The Town Museum - Sombor 1891 - The Town Museum - Kikinda 1891 - The Town Museum - Subotica 1907 - The Town Museum - Zrenjanin 1893 - The Natural Museum - Belgrade 1896 - The School Museum - Belgrade 1901 - Ethnographic Museum - Belgrade 1923 - Post Museum - Belgrade 1923 - The Museum of Forestry and Hunting - Belgrade

3. D EVELOPMENT OF THE M USEUM N ETWORK 1945 - Sabac 1945 - Uzice 1948 - Pec and Leskovac 1950 - Smederevo, Kraljevo and Kragujevac 1951 - Zajecar, Valjevo, Pristina, Djakovica, Cajetina and Arandjelovac 1953 - Cacak, Kosovska Mitrovica and Novi Pazar 1954 - Svetozarevo and Krusevac SPECIALIZED MUSEUMS 1950 - Railway Museum Museum of Applied Arts Serbian Museum of Theatre Arts 1952 - Film Archives Museum and Nikola Tesla Museum 1953 - Gallery of Frescoes 1954 - Museum of Serbian Orthodox Church and Museum of First Serbian Uprising 1959 - Historical Museum and Jewish Museum 1989 - Museum of Science and Technology

4. T HE N ETWORK OF M USEUMS IN S ERBIA - TODAY The Ministry of Culture is fully financing the work, maintenance and programs of the 13 national museums : 1.National Museum - Belgrade 2.Museum of Applied Arts - Belgrade 3.Museum of Modern Art - Belgrade 4.Ethnographic Museum - Belgrade 5.Museum of Natural History - Belgrade 6.Museum of Science and Technology - Belgrade 7.Museum of Theatrical Art - Belgrade 8.Historical Museum of Serbia - Belgrade 9.Museum of Genocide Victims - Belgrade 10.Gallery of Matica srpska - Novi Sad 11.Historical Museum of Yugoslavia - Belgrade 12.Open-Air Museum “Old Village” - Sirogojno 13.Museum of Naïve and Marginal Art - Jagodina. The museum network employs 533 people 50 museums based on the Decree of Museum Competency in the categories of cultural......assets - 1+6 and by territory - 43

5. C OLLECTIONS AND F INANCING Collections of 13 National museums - 3.161.149 items Natural history - 1.811.008 items Archeological - 324.652 items Historical - 38.080 items Art collections - 162.865 items Ethnological - 52.961 Photo and archive - 423.308 Collections of 43 regional, municipal and community museums - 1.064.533 items Natural history – 22.937 items Archeological – 615.880 items Historical – 115.366 Art collections – 55,736 items Ethnological – 81.896 items Photo and Archive – 76.846 items Financing National museums are financed by the Republic Regional museums are financed by their founders - communities, cities or provinces The Cultural Policy of the Ministry inspires quality and diversity of programs of regional museums by financing though competition – decentralization of cultural activities

6. C ULTURAL P OLICY Cultural Policy in Serbia is governed by authorities at the level of: REPUBLIC PROVINCE CITY MUNICIPALITY The work of a museum is regulated by: The Law on Culture The Law on Cultural Assets The Law on activities with special interest in culture Other regulations related to culture The main goals of Cultural Policy are: domestic and international legislation – establisment and EU compliance creating national data base of cultural assets creating acreditation model for public and private institutions as well as personal licences affirmation of significant centres aplying principles of business policy networking at national and regional levels – international co-operation intensifying co-operation between institutions of culture and science inproving contacts with public digitalization of the records of cultural assets active media role in informing about conditions in the field of cultural heritage and the........improvement of social responsibility

7. C ENTRAL I NSTITUTE FOR C ONSERVATION - CIK CIK – interdisciplinary educational and scientific-research center, it is ranked with among institutes for research and development CIK enables: forming a multidisciplinary professional and scientific base in a field of cultural heritage organization of education at academic and professional level in colaboration with universities appliance of multidisciplinary research in fields of preventive protection and conservation treatment organization of unique documentation system in the field of protection raising profesional level in heritage decisions enhancing awareness of the importance and care of heritage preservation improvement of comunication between all parts of the system of protection wide range of publicity in all responsible institutions of government in the activities of heritage preservation

8. D IGITALIZATION OF C ULTURAL H ERITAGE The Ministry of Culture declared digitalization of cultural heritage is a strategic priority, and initiatied a National Strategy of Digitalization of Cultural Heritage in 2007 The Goals of the National Strategy protection of cultural heritage increased accessibility to all materials which consituted our cultural heritage improvement of information technologies creation of normative and infrastructural framework, which provides and.....inspires wide accessibility use and exchange of cultural assets and ease of accession widespread presentation of Serbian cultural heritage