Funkcije Muzeja Hercegovine Mostar u očuvanju bosanskohercegovačkog identiteta
FUNCTIONS OF THE MUSEUM OF HERZEGOVINA MOSTAR IN PRESERVATION OF BOSNIAN IDENTITY (with 70 years of existence and work)

Summary/Abstract: One of the definitions of the museum, according to a prominent museology expert Barry Lord, is that museums, essentially, do not deal with objects, but with people. For a museum to operate successfully, it is necessary to harmonize four key-functions: exhibitory function, function of preservation, scientific function and animation function. The very name „Museum of Herzegovina“ could cause misunderstandings in several ways, but it does not have, and it cannot have, any meaning other than a territorial museum within the Bosnian historical wholeness, in other words as part of the Bosnian&Herzegovinian state territory. That is the same area where Bosnian&Herzegovinian plurality is manifested. There are no, and there cannot be, any distinct cultural identities which we can define as Herzegovinan, and not as Bosnian&Herzegovinian. The role of Museum of Herzegovina is to explore and present Bosnian&Herzegovinian plurality, so that all of its content is preserved, explored and presented within the historical and cultural wholeness of Bosnia and Herzegovina.

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