The Croatian History Museum - towards the first permanent display. Mission statements, goals and strategies

The Croatian History Museum is led by a professional team and driven by the challenges of a new permanent display within globalization processes. We inherited and preserved an array of national heritage materials that we have researched and interpreted, and in most part published. We are well equipped to keep pace with technological challenges and we are currently working on creating a unified database that would enable a closer cooperation with other museums and a development of joint projects. Mounting a permanent display in this day and age presents us with an extraordinary opportunity to revise museum theory and practice (concepts and framework). The permanent display will display the history of Croatia, however, far from the stereotypes discussed in this conference on ?pre-1989 museums“. Lecture held on the Conference ?National History Museums in South-East Europe: Learning History, building shared memories“, Thessaloniki, Greece, 18 October 2010. An International Conference organized by UNESCO, within the framework of ?2010 International year for the Rapprochement of Cultures“. Texts used: Jelena Borošak Marijanović, Ela Jurdana, Nataša Mataušić. Koncepcija stalnog postava Hrvatskoga povijesnog muzeja (The Concept of the Permanent Exibition of the Croatian History Museum) Zagreb: Croatian History Museum, 2009; within this text, integral texts by Ankica Pandžić, the head of the Croatian History Museum: ?Poslanje Hrvatskoga povijesnog muzeja“ (?Mission Statement of the Croatian History Museum“) and ?Pregled povijesti muzeja“ (?Overview of the Museum's History“). The scientific presentation held at the Convention on national museums entitled ?Hrvatski povijesni muzej danas i sutra“ (?The Croatian History Museum Today and Tomorrow“), Budapest, December 1999; Ankica Pandžić. ?Povijest Muzeja je povijest hrvatskoga naroda“(The History of the Museum is the History of the Croatian people“), Hrvatska revija 2 (Croatian Review 2) (2010), Zagreb, April 30, 2010.