Preliminary communication

https://doi.org/10.32458/ei.27.13

Vladimir Tkalčić: “Professional Spiritus Agens” of the Ethnographic Department of the Croatian National Museum

Katarina Bušić orcid.org/0000-0002-2700-0962 ; Ethnographic Museum, Zagreb

Abstract

As one of the rare museum experts in Croatia, Vladimir Tkalčić was involved
in events that would lead to the establishment of the Ethnographic Department
of the Croatian National Museum in October 1919. Later on, during his fifteen-
year service with the Museum (1919-1934), as its first keeper (Curator)
and then Manager/Director (1925-1934), he continuously worked on directing
and organising the professional and scientific work, covering a wide and nowadays
still current range of museum activities. The article addresses two topics:
Tkalčić’s role in the establishment and placement of the Ethnographic Department
of the Croatian National Museum in the building of the then Trade and
Crafts Museum and Tkalčić’s influence on the profiling of early professional
activity, the emphasis being on the collection of items for the holdings.

Keywords

Vladimir Tkalčić, Ethnographic Museum, museology, management policy, professional work

Hrčak ID:

289675

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/289675

Publication date:

30.12.2022.

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