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- Nikola Tesla

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Collections Management Certification Program SERBIA 2013 – 2014

Fionn Zarubica & Associates in partnership with The Central Institute for Conservation in Belgrade, The U.S. Embassy in Belgrade and The Ministry of Culture and Media of the Republic of Serbia

- Fionn Zarubica & Associates u partnerstvu sa Centralnim institutom za konzervaciju u Beogradu (CIK), Ambasadom SAD u Beogradu i Ministarstvom kulture i medija Republike Srbije

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Collections Management Certification Program

October 7, 2013 – November 1, 2013
February 3, 2014 - February 28, 2014
May 5, 2014 – May 30, 2014

Central Institute for Conservation in Belgrade

Terazije 26
Belgrade, Serbia

Fall of 2013 will welcome the second year of a professional certification program in the pioneering field of Museum Collections Management.

The program is designed for professionals from Serbia and the region already working in museums and heritage protection institutions, and students who have experience in conservation and museum work or wish to enter this new and important profession.

Lead by Fionn Zarubica, the program provides basic and advanced instruction as well as hands-on training in contemporary collections management techniques. Topics include preventive conservation, state of the art registration methods, secure art handling, packing, storing, transportation, and inventive exhibition planning, mount making, installation and de-installation.

The program is a total of twelve weeks; divided into three separate sessions over the course of a year. Each session addresses different collections issues at incrementally complex levels. Beginning with the core issues on how to care for one’s own collections within an institution (Session I), it progresses to working with objects (Session II) and broader issues dealing with the more public aspects of a collection, such as through exhibitions and loans (Session III). Upon satisfactory completion of the program the participants are awarded a professional certification acknowledging their qualifications to attend to the needs of diverse institutions internationally, to address the unique issues and requirements of a wide variety of objects and environments and implement solutions across a broad spectrum of challenges; to ensure up to date, long-term, user-friendly and cost efficient methods for protecting and preserving Serbia’s treasures.

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Program za upravljanje muzejskim zbirkama u Srbiji 2013 – 2014.

„Fionn Zarubica & Associates", u partnerstvu sa Centralnim institutom za konzervaciju u Beogradu (CIK), Ambasadom SAD u Beogradu i Ministarstvom kulture i medija Republike Srbije, trenutno je u procesu prijema prijava za drugu godinu sertifikovanog stručnog programa obuke iz oblasti upravljanja muzejskim zbirkama. Program se odvija u tri sesije i pruža teorijska znanja i praktičnu obuku iz savremenih tehnika vezanih za novi način upravljanja muzejskim zbirkama.

Program vodi Fionn Zarubica, iz Sjedinjenih Američkih Država, stručnjak za upravljanje muzejskim zbirkama i glavni partner u firmi „Fionn Zarubica & Associates".

Cilj programa je da obuči muzealce iz Srbije i regiona koji rade u muzejima i koji se staraju o zbirkama - one koji direktno rade sa lokalnim zbirkama - da konstantno utiču na popravljanje stanja svojih zbirki, čineći ih tako dostupnim kako javnosti, tako i naučnim radnicima i pedagozima. Time ovaj program doprinosi naporima da se zaštiti i očuva značajna kulturna baština u Srbiji i podstakne privredni razvoj.

Sesija I baviće se time kako se starati o muzejskim zbirkama u okviru institucije. Biće obrađene različite teme: kako društvo određuje šta je vrednost koju treba očuvati; razlititi aspekti muzejske profesije; diferencijacija vrsta zbirki i muzeja...Baviće se i metodama registracije i najvažnijim konceptima, principima i tehnikama upravljanja zbirkama.

Sesija II baviće se muzejskim predmetima: osnovnim rukovanjem radi osiguranja bezbednosti predmeta, materijalima i tehnikama za smeštaj kulturnih dobara, skladištenjem i muzejskim depoima, kontrolom štetočina, pripremom i premeštanjem predmeta u okviru muzeja, nalaženjem kreativnih rešenja za metode skladištenja korišćenjem lokalnih resursa, povećanjem zbirki, dokumentacijom i označavanjem. Takođe, tokom sesije direktna pažnja će biti usmerena i na upravljanje rizicima, kao i na zaštitu zdravlja i bezbednosti posetilaca i zaposlenih u muzeju.

Sesija III Na osnovu iskustava iz sesija I i II, sesija III će, kroz teoriju i praktičnu obuku, ponuditi napredna rešenja iz oblasti upravljanja muzejskim zbirkama, uključujući dizajn izložbi, pozajmice značajnih kulturnih dobara, kao i muzejske etike, efikasnog korišćenja resursa, najbolje prakse i održivosti. Učesnici će razmatrati kako muzeji mogu da podstaknu i podrže razvoj i stabilnost lokalne zajednice, kroz promociju nacionalne i lokalne kulture, turizma, obrazovanja, školovanja i građanske svesti. Biće reči i o mogućoj samoodrživosti muzeja kroz aktivnosti u zajednici, uz podrške donatora, kao i angažovanja i obuke volontera.

Učesnici programa su muzejski profesionalci iz Srbije i regiona, koji već rade u muzejima i institucijama zaštite kulturne baštine, kao i studenti sa iskustvom u konzervaciji i radu u muzejima ili željom da počnu da se bave tom strukom.

Predavanja će biti održana u prostorijama Centralnog instituta za konzervaciju u Beogradu. Sve informacije o programu se mogu naći onlajn na fionnzarubica.com i cik.org.rs.


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On Divine Philanthropy

From Plato to John Chrysostom

by Bishop Danilo Krstic

This book describes the use of the notion of divine philanthropy from its first appearance in Aeschylos and Plato to the highly polyvalent use of it by John Chrysostom. Each page is marked by meticulous scholarship and great insight, lucidity of thought and expression. Bishop Danilo’s principal methodology in examining Chrysostom is a philological analysis of his works in order to grasp all the semantic shades of the concept of philanthropia throughout his vast literary output. The author overviews the observable development of the concept of philanthropia in a research that encompasses nearly seven centuries of literary sources. Peculiar theological connotations are studied in the uses of divine philanthropia both in the classical development from Aeschylos via Plutarch down to Libanius, Themistius of Byzantium and the Emperor Julian, as well as in the biblical development, especially from Philo and the New Testament through Origen and the Cappadocians to Chrysostom.

With this book, the author invites us to re-read Chrysostom’s golden pages on the ineffable philanthropy of God. "There is a modern ring in Chrysostom’s attempt to prove that we are loved—no matter who and where we are—and even infinitely loved, since our Friend and Lover is the infinite Triune God."

The victory of Chrysostom’s use of philanthropia meant the affirmation of ecclesial culture even at the level of Graeco-Roman culture. May we witness the same reality today in the modern techno-scientific world in which we live.