On the first day of the official visit to Paris, together with associates from the Museum of the Republic of Srpska, the Director of the Museum Davor Strika had a meeting at the Louvre Museum with the Head of the International Cooperation Sector Cyrille Gouyette and his team.

The meeting discussed the possibilities and models of cooperation between our museums, primarily through exchange of experiences and experts, and opportunities for the education of our curators and conservators at the Louvre. Discussions also covered the possibilities of holding joint exhibitions and financing projects of mutual importance. It is a particularly welcome fact that the Museum of the Republic of Srpska is becoming internationally visible and recognizable, as evidenced by meetings at this level with the world’s most prestigious cultural institutions.

– We would like to express our gratitude to the Ministry of Education and Culture of the Republic of Srpska, the Ministry of European Integration and International Cooperation, as well as Danijela Pejić, the Representative Office of the Republic of Srpska in Paris and Bojana Kondić Panić. Such meetings confirm that Srpska’s inter-institutional cooperation is at an enviable level. All these activities are an introduction to the ceremonial opening of the exhibition Zmijanje Embroidery – World Intangible Heritage of the Museum of the Republic of Srpska and the Ethnographic Museum in Belgrade, which will be open to the French public from Thursday, 23 April 2026, at the Serbian Cultural Center here in Paris – said the director of Srpska’s Museum in the capital of world culture.

The Zmijanje Embroidery – World Intangible Heritage exhibition from the collections of the Republic of Srpska Museum and Belgrade Ethnographic Museum, authored by Danijela Đukanović, museum advisor and ethnologist from the Republic of Srpska Museum, and Mirjana Kraguljac Ilić, senior curator and ethnologist from the Belgrade Ethnographic Museum, is a joint project of two central institutions from the Republic of Serbia and the Republic of Srpska engaged in preserving tangible and intangible Serbian cultural heritage.

Through this project, both cultural institutions aim to present to the professional and general public in Paris and France the importance of preserving the Serbian intangible heritage – Zmijanje Embroidery, which was inscribed on the UNESCO List of the World Intangible Heritage of Humanity in 2014.

Source: RTRS

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