Museum Documentation Department

Museum Documentation Department is an independent unit of the Museum, which in the most directly way cooperates with curators within the Museum Collections and Funds Department and which unites entire documentation involved in a process of acquisition, preservation and expert interpretation of an object. It keeps basic records on the museum objects, such as an accession register, the collections’ inventories, and registers of objects photographs, central and auxiliary catalogues of the collections, archive dealing with the museum’s exhibitions and press-clipping.

This department represents a sort of the museum’s information center, where not only computer data processing of museum objects is performed, but also their photographing, digitization and scanning. In addition to this, it follows the modern developments within the profession as well as the international standards dealing with the museum documentation and of the information associated with the objects for research. As a parent department for museum objects of interest for Serbian history, this Department establishes guidelines for dealing with such museum objects’ description and provides professional help to those involved in museum documentation.

Apart to its basic preoccupation, the Museum Documentation Department organizes and performs the projects dealing with publishing of the museum objects, either as multimedia publications or printed issues. Full and successful cooperation it has established with numerous TV stations and publishers, as well as lots of physical persons and corporations, which use museum photo documentation in their projects and researches.

Staff

            Bojkovic Sladjana, senior curator

            Zdravkovic Vera, senior curator

            Izabela Martinov-Tomovic, curator

            Surdic Rastko, photographer