THE GOVERNOR’S PALACE
Trg Riccarda Zanelle 1, Rijeka
Hours: Mon: 9 a.m. – 4 p.m., Tue-Sat: 9 a.m. – 8 p.m., Sun: 9 a.m. – 1 p.m.
Closed on holidays.
Every Thursday, admission to all locations of the Maritime and History Museum of the Croatian Littoral Rijeka is free of charge.
PRESENTATION
THE LITTLE MUSEUM ENCYCLOPAEDIA, BOOK 2
publisher: Maritime and History Museum of the Croatian Littoral Rijeka
project creator and editor: Denis Nepokoj
language supervision: Mihaela Matešić
photographs: Hrvoje Franjić, Rino Gropuzzo, Museum Archives
designer: Vesna Rožman
printer: Printera Grupa, Sveta Nedelja
location and date: Maritime and History Museum of the Croatian Littoral Rijeka, 8 December 2022 at 5 p.m.
“The Little Museum Encyclopaedia, Book 2” is a new publishing project by the Maritime and History Museum of the Croatian Littoral Rijeka tied to the museum’s educational and exhibition activities and the second museum publication in which the materials on exhibit in the museum’s permanent display are presented encyclopaedically.
The project was initiated in 2018, prompted by the exhibition “Bertuch’s Pictorial Empire – Discover the Secrets of the Children’s Encyclopaedia” staged by the Croatian School Museum and creator Kristina Gverić. It presented part of the seven almost entirely preserved volumes of Bertuch’s encyclopaedia for children published in the first decade of the 19th century.
Outstanding illustrations and clear explanations served as Bertuch’s foundation to prepare his encyclopaedia, and they were the point of departure for this first and now this second edition of the ‘Little Museum Encyclopaedia’. Upper-grade pupils from the Brajda, Belveder, Fran Franković, Klana, Podmurvice and Srdoči Primary Schools, and participants in the Little Museum Atelier/MuMa and the LIADA Art and Research Atelier for Gifted Primary School Pupils participated in its creation. Conceived as interactive, the project inspired study, discovery and observation, as well as artistic research and creative writing. This was a major challenge for a generation growing up in a world that Bertuch never could have imagined. Even so, with the help of their mentors, and resolute in their intention to present a part of the materials from the museum’s permanent display in words and pictures as best they could, they successfully met the challenge and deftly avoided the project’s little pitfalls – to which the ‘Little Museum Encyclopaedia’ testifies.
The United Choir of the First Rijeka Croatian Classics Gymnasium and the Andrija Mohorovičić Classics Gymnasium, under the direction of Prof. Helga Dukarić Dangubić, will perform at the presentation of the Little Museum Encyclopaedia.
EXHIBITION
OUTBOARD MOTORS FROM KOPER
organizer: Rijeka Technical Culture Community
partners: Technical Museum of Slovenia, Maritime and History Museum of the Croatian Littoral Rijeka
conceived by: Boris Brovinsky
the exhibition – by prior arrangement with the Technical Culture Centre – can be viewed in the premises of the former Python Club until 7 January 2023
During the 1990s, the Technical Museum of Slovenia gathered a collection of products made by the Tomos factory in Koper. Besides motorcycles and mopeds, which were the factory’s mainstay, this also included outboard motors that today illustrate the developmental path of this segment of the factory’s production programme. In terms of quality, the small outboard motors made by Tomos were among the best in the world and were well known even outside of the former Yugoslavia. This exhibition will present the most important exemplars of this product line, as well as certain models that were ready for the market in the 1990s but did not make it to serial production after the latter was halted.
EXHIBITION
CHILDHOOD BEHIND THE IRON CURTAIN
organizers: Maritime and History Museum of the Croatian Littoral Rijeka and Peek&Poke Rijeka
conceived by: Tea Perinčić and Svetozar Nilović
display design: Vera Ružić – Kabinet 13
the exhibition will remain open until 15 May 2023
The exhibition “Childhood Behind the Iron Curtain” takes us back to the 1970s and 1980s and halts at the brink of our childhood world’s collapse, a time of “great longing” for the material goods from the other side of the “curtain.” This exhibition is about children, who grew up under the sway of Josip Broz Tito’s cult of personality, but also under the influence of Western European and American heroes from comics, cartoons and movies.
Guided tours and educational workshops will be organized to accompany the exhibition.
LECTURE
CONSERVATION AND RESTORATION WORKS ON THE MAIN ALTAR AND RESEARCH WORKS IN THE APSE OF THE PARISH CHURCH OF THE ASSUMPTION OF THE BLESSED VIRGIN MARY IN VRBNIK
lecturers: Nevena Krstulović, senior conservator and restorer, and Toni Šaina, a conservator and restorer from the Croatian Restoration Institute, Rijeka Restoration Department.
location and time: Museum’s Marble Hall, 15 December 2022 at 6 p.m.
The lecture by senior conservator and restorer Nevena Krstulović will present the conservation and restoration works on the main altar in the parish Church of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Vrbnik.
The polychrome, gilded and engraved main altar of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary is the most monumental preserved wooden altar on the Kvarner islands. It has been dated to the 16th-17th centuries, and consists of two chronologically and stylistically different components that have thus far not been studied in great detail. The conservation-restoration works began in 2012, and were completed in 2019 when the altar was returned and installed in the church.
The lecture by Toni Šaina, senior conservator and restorer in the Fresco and Mosaic Department, will present the results of conservation and restoration research and works rendered on the walls in the interior of the parish church that was done roughly ten years ago by the Croatian Restoration Institute. Research has confirmed most of the construction alterations that had already been recorded earlier in written sources. The church’s current appearance is the result of three major reconstructions that gradually remodelled its interior from the 15th to 19th centuries.
MIRACLE ROOM
The workshops for young creators are held in the Miracle Room at the Maritime and History Museum of the Croatian Littoral Rijeka and in the Museum’s garden. Educational programmes are also being held at the remote collections.
MORNING IN THE MUSEUM
WORKSHOP
OUR CHILDHOOD
workshop leader: Iva Volović
date and time: 3 December 2022, from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.
The workshop is being organized to observe International Day of Persons with Disabilities. It is aimed at primary school children and adapted to children with disabilities and developmental impairments. It is inclusive of all children, because games, toys and pleasant memories are an essential part of growing up.
The workshop has been organized to accompany the exhibition “Childhood Behind the Iron Curtain” in the Museum.
Apply at e-mail cudotvornica@ppmhp.hr or at ph. no. 051/553666
WINTER HOLIDAYS IN THE MUSEUM
WORKSHOP
OUR CHILDHOOD
workshop leader: Iva Volović
date and time: 27-30 December 2022, from 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
The workshop is intended for preschool children and primary school pupils in grades 1 through 4. It has been organized to accompany the exhibition “Childhood Behind the Iron Curtain”. Using different but again quite similar toys and games, we shall bring together different generations, the experiences of grandmothers and grandfathers, parents and children, recalling old games and learning new ones! In the words of Antoine de Saint-Exupery, who wrote The Little Prince: “All grown-ups were once children … but only few of them remember it.”
BIRTHDAY IN THE MUSEUM
Educational birthday workshops in the Maritime and History Museum of the Croatian Littoral Rijeka are aimed at children aged 4 to 12. The workshops are thematic, and the celebrants can choose from six available themes: ‘Masquerade Ball,’ ‘The Trsat Dragon,’ ‘On-board Emergency,’ ‘Unusual Form,’ ‘Challenge Trail,’ and ‘Treasure Hunt.’
The programme will proceed in the Museum’s premises. Must be arranged in advance.
The price for ten children is HRK 600. An additional HRK 40 is charged for each additional child – up to a maximum of 15.
MIRACLE ROOM ON THE ROAD
Miracle Room on the Road is intended for children from distant schools, so that they can more easily participate in educational and creative programmes tied to the Museum’s inventory and content, as well as segments of the local cultural and historical heritage.
LIPA REMEMBERS MEMORIAL CENTRE
Lipa 35, Šapjane
Hours: Tue-Sat: 10 a.m. – 5 p.m.
http://lipapamti.ppmhp.hr/
Permanent display
KASTAV REGIONAL MUSEUM COLLECTION
Prolaz Ivana iz Kastva 1, Kastav
Due to the commencement of works to restore and reconstruct the permanent display of the Kastav Regional Museum Collection, financed by the Croatian Ministry of Culture and Media, Primorje-Gorski Kotar County and the Town of Kastav, Kastav Regional Museum Collection is closed to visitors until further notice.
KRALJEVICA SHIPYARD MODEL COLLECTION
Visits are possible by prior arrangement with the Museum and under the conditions stipulated by the Dalmont Shipyard in Kraljevica.
CICKINI ARCHAEOLOGICAL COLLECTION, ISLAND OF KRK
Visits are possible by prior arrangement.
