/Centre for Cultural Heritage

About the Centre

Function

  • to research, evaluate, interpret, protect and teach about cultural heritage

 

Vision

  • to become a point of contact and reference in researching, evaluating, interpreting and protecting the tangible and intangible cultural heritage and landscapes
  • to improve the quality of life of the population and to encourage the development of the region which would be based on the sustainable use of cultural heritage
  • to evaluate cultural goods as a resource of development
  • to integrate historical heritage
  • to stimulate creativity and innovation when using our heritage

 

Mission

  • to improve the research, promotion and sustainable development of the cultural heritage of eastern Croatia
  • to offer true and professional interpretation
  • to protect cultural heritage and its authenticity
  • to educate and raise awareness of the significance and value of the heritage of eastern Croatia
  • to strengthen the role that the Academy of Arts and Culture plays in the local community and to include the local community in the protection of cultural heritage
  • to cooperate with the public and private sectors that use or promote cultural heritage
  • to digitalise cultural heritage in order to improve its availability and understanding

Associates

assistant professor Igor Mavrin, PhD

assistant professor Hrvoje Mesić, PhD

associate professor Jasminka Najcer Sabljak, PhD

Mirna Sabljar, PhD

assistant professor Lana Skender, PhD

associate professor Jasna Šulentić Begić, PhD

associate professor Margareta Turkalj Podmanicki, PhD

associate professor Katarina Žeravica, PhD

Projects

Environmental Risk Assessment and Mitigation on Cultural Heritage Assets in Central Asia (ERAMCA)

ERAMCA is an Erasmus+ project that introduces in the Republic of Uzbekistan and the Republic of Tajikistan an interdisciplinary approach to the complex problem of environmental risk assessment and reduction on cultural heritage assets in Central Asia. The project starts with an investigation of the local needs in partner countries and transforms those requests into a curriculum of a graduate study (120 ECTS), a digital library where all the teaching materials (e.g. books, hypertexts, video, best practices) related to the courses planned for the graduate study are stored and freely accessible by everyone. The Centre for Cultural Heritage will be represented by associate professor Margareta Turkalj Podmanicki and assistant professor Lana Skender.

The project coordinator is the Polytechnic University of Turin (Politecnico di Torino), Turin, Italy, while the project partners include:

Bauhaus Universität Weimar, Weimar, Germany

Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek, Osijek, Croatia

Toshkent Shahridagi Turin Politexnika Universiteti, Toshkent, Uzbekistan

Mirzo Ulugbek Nomidagi Samarquand Davlat Arxitektura Qurilish Instituti, Samarqand, Uzbekistan

Akademiya ilimhoi Čumhurii Točikiston, Dushanbe, Tajikistan

Donišgohi tehnikii Točikiston ba nomi akademik M. Osimi, Dushanbe, Tajikistan

Kučand Doniškadai politehnikii Donišgohi tehnikii Točikiston ba nomi akademik M. Osimi, Khujand, Tajikistan

More about the project at: https://eramca.com/

 

Brochure “The Art of Creating and Restoring Stained Glass Windows”

 

The Centre for Cultural Heritage is a partner in EWAP project “Documenting Chardak House for Preserving Endangered Wooden Structures along Drava and Danube Rivers in Croatia”

The project researches and documents chardak houses, the traditional wooden storage for maize. It represents an effort to protect the cultural heritage of continental Croatia. The areas of Koprivnica-Križevac County, Virovitica-Podravina County and Osijek-Baranja County, as well as the rural settlements along the rivers Drava and Danube offer some of the most beautiful examples of this type of wooden architecture.

Today, chardak houses are the characteristic element of the traditional farm households and yards. They differ along the rivers Drava and Danube due to different building techniques and the aesthetic which is gradually disappearing. The focus of this project is to document and research the wooden structure of chardak houses. The project will be carried out mostly at the Faculty of Civil Engineering and Architecture in Osijek (led by associate professor Dina Stober), assembling an interdisciplinary team of experts, including the students of the Academy of Arts and Culture in Osijek and the associates of the Centre for Cultural Heritage. The goal of this project is to create a comprehensive database of these traditional buildings, which will protect their cultural significance and technical heritage. By researching their history, construction and function, the project will provide an insight into various types of chardak houses.

The project will promote the protection and documentation of cultural heritage, the cooperation with the local communities and the awareness of the value of traditional buildings. The project is funded by the Endangered Wooden Architecture Programme (EWAP) of Oxford Brookes University.

 

The Centre for Cultural Heritage and the Academy of Arts and Culture in Osijek participated in the organisation of the 9th ICARUS Croatia Days in Osijek – March 2024

 

European Heritage Label (in cooperation with the city of Osijek)

 

Croatian translation of “The London Charter for the Computer-based Visualisation of Cultural Heritage”

London charter_hrvatski

Contact

Centre for Cultural Heritage

Trg Sv. Trojstva 3, Osijek

2nd floor, room no. 26

Centre director: associate professor Margareta Turkalj Podmanicki, PhD

e-mail: margareta.turkalj@uaos.hr

Working hours: Wednesday 11:00-13:00