Informatica museologica, No. 45-46, 2015.
Stručni rad
THE PHENOMENON OF COLLECTIONS OF RELIGIOUS COMMUNITIES IN CROATIA: THE REGISTER OF MUSEUM, COLLECTIONS AND TREASURIES OWNED BY RELIGIOUS COMMUNITIES
Dunja Vranešević
; Zagreb
Sažetak
Collections owned by religious communities are an integral part of the cultural history heritage of a people. Of equal importance
and value as museum collections, they can be classified as cultural properties of general interest for the whole of society. With
the formation of the Register of Museum, Collections and Treasuries Owned by Religious Communities, an important and unique
documental collection in the Museum Documentation Centre, data about the moveable cultural properties in the collections of
religious communities have become available in one place. When a database was placed on the Website of the MDC, data about
such collections were for the first time united, shown systematically and equally and became searchable for all users. It has become possible to examine useful and valuable information about the number and distribution of the collections, their locations,
kinds and contents, their registration, degree of accessibility to the public and the personnel in charge of them.
The register is a unique database and is of incalculable value for Croatian culture for it looks after a list of the precious collections of the religious communities in Croatia in which the national treasures are kept in sometimes inappropriate conditions. Sometimes these are one-of-a-kind pieces, artistic paintings, incunabula, goldsmith work, textiles, and also sometimes archaeological, ethnographic and natural history material – works that are no longer in use and that likely to deteriorate or be forgotten,
unless their huge cultural value is realised, and they begin to be taken systematic care of. Only by implanting awareness of the
value and importance of the cultural heritage in both clergy and laity and by making them aware of the proper attitude to these
monuments is it possible to do away with the milieu’s ignorance concerning and lack of interest in such collections. The ambition of such systematic record making and professional and scholarly processing of the data collected in the field is precisely
to draw attention to the existence and value of this kind of treasure within the cultural heritage of the Croatian people, as well
as to the importance of the national cultural heritage as compared with the culture of other peoples. This kind of documentation
assumes particular importance in cases of theft, natural disaster and war. The Register of Museum, Collections and Treasuries
Owned by Religious Communities that is kept by the Museum Documentation Centre also confirms its manifold usefulness in its
linking together of governmental and ecclesiastical institutions, in affording professional assistance to religious communities
and value information about the national cultural history heritage to experts and researchers, in the making of a unique inventory of heritage items owned by religious communities, and participation in the development of the cultural history topography
at the level of the state as a whole.
Ključne riječi
Hrčak ID:
176888
URI
Datum izdavanja:
2.9.2016.
Posjeta: 1.497 *