Original scientific paper

Croatian Traditional Heritage Online: Status and Opportunities

Maja Šojat-Bikić ; Zagreb City Museum, Zagreb, Croatia

Abstract

The article is based on the research of the websites of Croatian ethnographic museums,
museums, associations, religious communities and private collectors who collect and
preserve ethnographic materials, public libraries that have local history collections,
the official websites of institutions of state administration and local self-government
and tourist boards, and attempts to depict the situation of the availability of tangible
and intangible traditional heritage on the Croatian web. It shows the few examples
of good practice which are in most cases not the result of institutional care for traditional
heritage, but the work of creative individuals and associations. The results of
the research are compared with the online achievements in other segments of the Croatian
cultural heritage, and we point to the untapped communications capabilities of
traditional heritage through the web as the most powerful medium for ‘storytelling’.

Keywords

traditional heritage; online presentation of heritage; ethnographic museums; Croatia

Hrčak ID:

77034

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/77034

Publication date:

28.12.2011.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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