The Forum of Slavic Cultures (FSC), under the leadership of Mrs. Andreja Rihter, and the Euroepan Museum Academy (EMA) awarded the 3rd Živa award for the best Slavic museum. The ceremony took place in Museum of Ancient Glass in Zadar in Croatia.
Mrs. Andreja Rihter, the director of the FSC, Mrs. Ekaterina Tolstaya, director of the Leo Tolstoy Museum – estate Yasnaya Polyana – the winner of the Živa Award 2015 and Mr. Pavle Goranović, the chairman of the FSC Board and minister of culture of Montenegro in Zadar handed the Živa award for the best Slavic museum in the presence of the museum experts from Slavic and European countries and the representatives of nineteen Živa candidates and other participants. The Award (named after the Slavic goddess Živa) went to the winner the Cricoteka from Kracow in Poland.
Special recommendations were given to the: National Museum of Montenegro (Cetinje, Montenegro) for leadership, Novgorod State Museum (Novgorod, Russian Federation) for good use of resources, New generation museum (Ždar nad Sazavou, Czech Republic) for creativity, Museum of Alka of Sinj (Sinj, Croatia) for storytelling and Strečno castle (Strečno, Slovakia) for openness to the visitors. The diploma for creating a new museum was given to the Vucedol culture museum (Vukovar, Croatia).
Call for the 3rd Živa Award for the best Slavic museum has been published in autumn 2015. Judges from Slavic countries and European Museum Academy have visited nineteen museums applied for the Živa Award from Macedonia, Poland, Serbia, Montenegro, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Czech Republic and Russian Federation, and they evaluated the excellence in the field of movable and immovable heritage of the Slavic world. They were especially attentive to the five criteria.
“The individuals that stand behind the names of the institutions and awards as well as jurors and experts are those who can testify that our work bore fruit. That Živa has really become “živa” (the speakers of Slavic languages would understand that this means – it has come to life),” was said by Mrs. Rihter.
In July 2016 the FSC has already launched the call for the best Slavic museum in 2017. The ceremony will take place in Bled (Slovenia).
