After the December deadline for entries for the 2017 Živa Award for the best Slavic museum expired, the Forum of Slavic Cultures reviewed all applications. Altogether it has received 23 of them, as many as four from the Czech Republic, three from Slovenia, the Russian Federation and Croatia, two came from Poland, Serbia and Bulgaria each, whereas one application was sent from Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Macedonia and for the first time also from Belarus.
In March and April the judges will visit all candidates, write reports, and then at the meeting which will be held in Budva (Montenegro) in May decide the winner and the recipients of special recommendations. The Živa Award ceremony with its additional programme will take place in Bled (Slovenia) from 20 to 24 September 2017.
List of candidates for the Živa Award 2017
1. National Museum of BIH, Sarajevo; BIH
2. Earth and Man National Museum, Sofia; Bulgaria
3. Ancient Nessebar Museum, Nessebar; Bulgaria
4. Puppet Museum in Pilsen, Czech Republic
5. Regional Museum Mikulov, Mikulov; Czech Republic
6. Polim Museum Berane, Berane; Montenegro
7. Glinka National Museum, Moscow, Russian Federation
8. House of merchant G. V. Tetushinov, Astrakhan, Russian Federation
9. Slovenian Alpine Museum, Mojstrana, Slovenia
10. Park of Military History Pivka, Pivka; Slovenia
11. Museum of Post and Telecommunications, Polhov Gradec; Slovenia
12. Open air museum Old village Sirogojno; Serbia
13. Macura museum, Novi Banovci; Serbia
14. Maritime and History Museum of the Croatian Littoral Rijeka; Croatia
15. Požega City Museum, Požega; Croatia
16. Museum reserve Mikhaylovskoye; Russian Federation
17. NI for Protection of the Monuments of Culture and Museum Ohrid; Macedonia
18. Municipal museum Dvůr Králové nad Labem; Czech Republic
19. Polish Aviation Museum, Krakow; Poland
20. Museum of Slesie, Katowice; Poland
21. The State Literary Museum of Yanka Kupala, Minsk; Belarus
22. Museum of Apoxyomenos, Mali Lošinj; Croatia
23. Wallachian Open-Air Museum in Rožnov pod Radhošten; Czech Republic