“The Traditional Garb of the Croatian Minority Enclaves and Majority Peoples of the Southeast of Europe” is a project jointly run by the Dubrovnik branch office of the CHF and the Museums of Dubrovnik, with the support of the Stećak association for the preservation and promotion of traditional culture in Bosnia-Herzegovina. An event at the former Rupe granary from 23 to 30 September also celebrates the 70th anniversary of the founding of the CHF and will feature an exhibition and symposium.
“The Traditional Garb of the Croatian Minority Enclaves and Majority Peoples of the Southeast of Europe” is a project jointly run by the Dubrovnik branch office of the Croatian Heritage Foundation and the Museums of Dubrovnik, with the support of the Stećak association for the preservation and promotion of traditional culture in Bosnia-Herzegovina. The project is hosting an event at the former Rupe granary from 23 to 30 September that will also celebrate the 70th anniversary of the founding of the Croatian Heritage Foundation. Part of the project event, led by senior Museums of Dubrovnik curator Ivica Kipre, is an exhibition and symposium.
The exhibition, showcasing “Croatian Women’s Garb in Bosnia-Herzegovina and the Ethnic Croatian Minority Enclaves in Europe”, authored by Roman Catholic Carmelite monk and ethnologist Zvonko Martić, was staged on 23 September at the former Rupe granary. The exhibition will feature the holdings of the ethnographic collection of the Carmel of St Elijah monastery and spiritual centre on Lake Buško near the town of Tomislavgrad, which was created with the objective of collecting and preserving folk costumes, jewellery, lace, artefacts associated with the customs of the region, and the songs and dances of the Croatians of Bosnia-Herzegovina. The exhibition is a multimedia affair and, along with the video and photographic material, presents traditional women’s folk costumes and jewellery. The exhibition is curated by Ivica Kipre, and features the photography of Jasmin Fazlagić. The event will be open for visitors through to 30 September of this year.
The symposium on “The Traditional Garb of the Croatian Minority Enclaves and Majority Peoples of the Southeast of Europe” was staged on 24 September. It featured a panel of specialists, museum professionals, and ethnologists, who presented the challenges associated with researching and collecting, storing, protecting and presenting the folk costumes of the ethnic Croatian enclaves abroad, and the emergent interest in collecting the folk costumes of other peoples in the Southeast of Europe.
The panel included ethnologist and Carmelite monk Zvonko Martić, senior curator of the Ethnographic Museum in Zagreb Katarina Bušić, the director of the Travno Culture Centre and its Folk Costume Workshop and Rental Department Josip Forjan, senior curator with the Museums of Dubrovnik Branka Hajdić, the head of the folk costume collection and workshop of the Linđo Folklore Ensemble Marica Vlahinić, and senior curator with the Museums of Dubrovnik Ivica Kipre. Collaborating on the project is the head of the Dubrovnik branch office of the Croatian Heritage Foundation Maja Mozara.
The programme of the “The Traditional Garb of the Croatian Minority Enclaves and Majority Peoples of the Southeast of Europe” at the former Rupe granary included discussions on an array of topics, including:
- “The Role of the Monastic Orders in Bosnia-Herzegovina in Preserving and Promoting Traditional Culture: The Ethnographic Collection at the Carmel of St Elijah” (Carmelite monk and ethnologist Zvonko Martić of the Carmel of St Elijah monastery and spiritual centre on Lake Buško)
- “The Collection of Folk Costumes of the Croatian Diaspora at the Ethnographic Museum in Zagreb: Heritage Value, Ethnographic and Cultural Anthropological Context” (Katarina Bušić, ethnologist, senior curator of the Ethnographic Museum in Zagreb)
- “The Collection of the Folk Costumes of Croatians Outside their Country of Origin at the Folk Costume Workshop and Rental Department” (Josip Forjan, ethnologist, director of the Travno Culture Centre and its Folk Costume Workshop and Rental Department)
- “Collection Activity and the Folk Costumes of the Southeast of Europe in the Holdings of the Museums of Dubrovnik” (Branka Hajdić, ethnologist, senior curator with the Ethnographic Museum of the Museums of Dubrovnik)
- “The Folk Costumes of Other Countries and of the Croatian Diaspora in the Collection of the Linđo Folklore Ensemble” (Marica Vlahinić, ethnologist, head of the folk costume collection and workshop of the Linđo Folklore Ensemble)
- “The Application of Digital Technologies and Multimedia in the Presentation of the Holdings of Folk Costumes from the Southeast of Europe: Challenges and Solutions” (Ivica Kipre, ethnologist, senior curator with the Ethnographic Museum of the Museums of Dubrovnik)
The exhibition leaflet: https://matis.hr/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/Deplijan-Martic.pdf