Children voices echoed in the National Museum of BiH in Sarajevo yesterday. Children at the age of seven to twelve are participating in the Little School of Museology, where over the course of four days they will learn about working in a Museum that is often hidden from the eyes of the public and they will acquire the title of “little curators”.
This is the first school of this type and it will last for four days, and in the end the diplomas will be awarded to 25 kids. Curator in the Department for Ethnology of the National Museum of BiH Samir Avdić said that the majority of people, including children, know about curators and exhibitions, but they know little about jobs that are performed before an exhibition sees the light of the day.
“I have been thinking for a while about how to get children to know the hidden museum world through workshops. I wanted them to know how our depots in the basements and our conservatory and preparatory workshops and paperwork look like. After they acquire basic knowledge about what happens with a museum exhibit which is given to the museum by someone for example, they will go through the entire process of inventorying, photographing, placing in the depot and then exploring the exhibit and making a story so that it would be exhibited,” Avdić said.
Workshops will last for four days and youngsters will learn a lot through playing and having fun. They will learn about completing an ethnologic collection and working with replicas, they will conduct archaeological works, get informed about the preparatory works, and in the end they will prepare an exhibition, open it and present it to the visitors and media.
Parents are delighted with this idea and they gladly left their children in the safe hands of this cultural institution. The aim of the projects is for the children to learn more about their origin and the culture of the land where they live.
Little School of Museology will end on Friday, when the diplomas will be awarded to the little curators and their exhibition will be finally opened.
(Source: klix.ba/photo: faktor.ba)
