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EGMUS PLENARY MEETING – Prague 2025

The annual plenary meeting of the European Group for Museum Statistics (EGMUS) took place on November 6 and 7, 2025, in Prague, and was hosted by the Czech Cultural Institute (Národní institut pro kulturu) and the Czech Ministry of Culture. Some forty experts from 19 countries (Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Finland, France, Germany, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain) participated in the meeting that focused on two main topics: digital consumption and the digitization of collections.

Gordana Bralić and Maja Lončar from the Croatian Bureau of Statistics and Tea Rihtar Jurić from the Museum Documentation Center (MDC) presented the data for Croatian Museums.

Digital Consumption in Croatian Museums (pdf)

Museum Documentation Center started collecting data on digital consumption from museums during the 2020 lockdown. MDC gathered data for the period 2020-2024 for museums’ websites, social media, and video platforms. The response rate from museums is stable (77% in the last 2 years). The comparison between online and onsite visits shows the prevalence of online visits. However, while onsite visits have a steady rise, online visits had a peak in 2021, followed by a sharp decline. Museums face numerous challenges, including the production and dissemination of online content, as well as measuring and analyzing the data. With the lack of museum staff (especially the lack of specialized staff), solutions might include outsourcing, engaging digital/new media experts, influencers, training of the existing staff, use of AI, etc.

 

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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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