Informatica museologica, No. 45-46, 2015.
Professional paper
PERSONAL ARCHIVES OF MERITORIOUS MUSEUM PROFESSIONALS: VANDA LADOVIĆ
Jozefina Dautbegović
; Muzejski dokumentacijski centar, Zagreb
Abstract
Vanda Ladović was born in Zagreb in 1929. She graduated from the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Zagreb in 1957,
art history and history group. She spent the whole of her career in Zagreb City Museum, where she managed the museum’s
photographic collection, one of the most important collections in that institution, which at that time had 35,000 photographic
prints, 5,000 picture postcards and 23,000 negatives. In addition to this task, she processed the collection of 19th century Zagreb
portraits.
She created the museological concept for the permanent display of Zagreb City Museum, which presented the development of
the area since prehistory. She produced nine exhibitions independently, including Classicism in Zagreb, 1958; Zagreb Whilom
and Now, 1963; Baroque Sculpting from the Church of St Mark, 1967; Forgotten Face of Zagreb, 1975. In collaboration with
others she put on about 17 more exhibitions, the most memorable of which were The Fighting Path of the CPY in Zagreb, 1919-
1959; the commemorative exhibition First Husbandry Exhibition in Zagreb, 1864-1964; Fifty Years of the Zagreb Quartet, 1969;
Croatian National Revival, 1985; Old Zagreb Artisan Trades, 1991; Zagreb in the Works of Zagreb Printmakers 1900-1940. She
was one of the authors of one of the best photographic monographs, Zagreb 1900. She published well received articles in News
of Museum Professionals and Conservators and in the journals Man and Space and 15 Days. A great expert in her work, she
performed outstandingly in the processing and presentation of museum material in her work, for which in 1992 she was given
the Pavao Ritter Vitezović Lifetime Achievement Aware of the Croatian Museum Association.
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Publication date:
2.9.2016.
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