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Minister Announces Continuation of Provenance Research Project

On June 9, 2025, the Ministry of Culture and Media of the Republic of Croatia and the Museum Documentation Center (MDC) presented the new issue of the journal Muzeologija 61, dedicated to the results of the Pilot Project to Determine the Provenance of Museum Objects Confiscated During and After WWII. The event was held at the Klovićevi Dvori Gallery in Zagreb.

As director Maja Kocijan pointed out, the first issue of Muzeologija in the 72 years of its publication dedicated to the phenomenon of ownership transfer—for which there was little or almost no interest in Croatia and in the world from World War II until the end of the 20th century—is presented in the days when the MDC celebrates seventy years of its existence.

The Minister of Culture and Media, Nina Obuljen Koržinek, thanked the participants of the project, the project leaders Ljerka Dulibić and Antonija Mlikota, the MDC, its director and journal editor Maja Kocijan, and announced the continuation of the project of provenance research of museum objects so that the experience of the museum workers included in the project could provide a professional and scientific incentive for all other heritage institutions.

In addition, some of the project participants presented their research results: the head of documentation at the Ethnographic Museum, Aleksandra Vlatković, the head of the History Department of the Museum of Slavonia, Ante Grubišić, the scientific associate of the Strossmayer Gallery of Old Masters, Ivan Ferenčak, and the head of the Department of Expert Museum Affairs of the National Museum of Modern Art, Lada Bošnjak Velagić.

All articles from Muzeologija 61 are available online in Croatian and English.

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