Biography
Goroslav Oštrić was born in Stolac (Bosnia and Herzegovina) in 1935. But his family often moved because of his father’s job and when WWII came he was in Tisno, island of Murter. He completed high school studies in Zadar. As high school pupil he was often engaged in youth labour actions, but also went to archaeological excavations with Ivo Petricioli, to the local St John’s Chapel, for instance, on Dugi Otok.
Along with writer Olinko Delorko he collected from informants in the field the folk poems for the Ethnology and Folk Studies Institute. The greatest contribution he made to museum work was the collection of material for all the collections and the purchase of objects.
In the Maritime and History Museum of the Hrvatsko primorje Region in Rijeka he ran the Archives and the Weapons collections. He also showed a great interest in heraldry.
Among his particular achievements is the organisation of material in the museum, into which he put a great deal of effort in order to obtain as much space as possible for work and exhibitions. After 1970 he corrected the existing display of the History Collection in the Maritime Museum, Rijeka.
While preparations were under way in the museum for a visit from Josip Broz Tito, the chance was taken to put the premises in order, to remodel and renovate them, which works were handled by Oštrić.
He plans to publish a monograph to bring together all the symbols of the Frankopans, in order to present them to the public the more successfully.
NB. Data taken from the questionnaire, material taken from the Personnel Archives of the MDC, and from an interview recorded on March 31, 2003.
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