The workshop for restoration and souvenir production The workshop for restoration and souvenir production began to be developed in 1963, with the arrival of Božidar Vilhar, the conservator of the Archaeological Museum in Zadar, who greatly advanced the workshop with the installation of an electric kiln for firing pottery, and introduced rubber moulds for making plaster casts. Today, along with the other conservation workshops, the workshop for restoration and souvenir production is located in the complex of the former monastery of St. Nicholas. According to the needs of the museum, the workshop carries out protection of archaeological material, along with the cleaning, gluing and restoration of pottery objects. In addition to the restoration of artifacts, the museum also produces souvenirs and replicas that are mostly copies of archaeological material. The workshop possesses almost a hundred varied objects in the form of copies and souvenirs made of pottery and artificial stone.
The workshop is led by Frane Šunic, museum technician (
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The conservation and restoration workshop The conservation and restoration workshop is located in the complex of the former monastery of St. Nicholas. Museum items made of diverse materials are conserved and restored o the workshop, such as various metals (bronze, iron, silver, brass, lead), amber, glass, and bone. The conservation and restoration procedures are carried out using contemporary methods and modern equipment that guarantees a high quality treatment and lengthy protection for the material.
The conservation-restoration workshop is lede by Josipa Lovric, restorer (
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A list of some items restored in the workshops of the museum:
The Library of the Archaeological Museum in Zadar
The Library of the Archaeological Museum in Zadar is an administrative unit within a scientific-cultural institution (the museum), and among library types it is classified as a specialized library. Its activities encompass the systematic and continual selection of books, their classification and professional assignment, with logical and suitable placement, and protective storage, along with information and reference services, and services related to supplying documents to the library users.
History of the library
When the Archaeological Museum was founded in 1832, the collection of books also probably began, but the nucleus of the first true archaeological library can be noted only from the museum's transfer to the Church of St. Donatus (1880). The administrative staff of the museum and part of the offices, as well as the storerooms and library, were located in part of the building on the northwestern side of Green Square. When Zadar was bombed in the Second World War, the building was destroyed, and all of the museum documents, including the library, were burnt in the fires. After the war, what remained of the library was located in the Schˆnfeld house in the Kolovare quarter, which became the administrative seat for the museum, but also the gathering point for all the books that were gathered from the ruins in the city. This can be said to have been the beginning of the new museum library. In 1947, the museum administration was moved into the ground floor rooms of the Archbishop's Palace, where it remained to 1954, when the entire museum was transferred to the former Institute of St. Dimitri, the present day University building. The museum library then for the very first time received its own premises. The museum remained in this building until 1972, when it again moved into its newly designed and built building next to the Permanent Exhibit of Ecclesiastical Art, while the library remained at the university building until 1986, when it was moved to the former Monastery of St. Nicholas, where it is located today.
Most of the material that could be found after this series of moves in the renewed library of the Archaeological Museumin Zadar consisted of professional works, such as the books chosen from the "collection" centers, and those donated by various archaeological and related institutions (particularly from the Croatian Academy of Arts and Sciences, the academies in Ljubljana and Beograd, the State Museum in Sarajevo, and so forth).
The publication of "Diadora", the journal of the Archaeological Museum, gretaly contributed to increasing the volume of the library, as the library was able to set up exchanges of its own publication with the publications of many other libraries in Croatia, the former Yugoslavia, and abroad.
It should also be mentioned that part of the personal library (around 400 volumes) of the archaeologist Mihovil Abramic was donated to the library in 1962.
The library from this postwar period has an inventory book and an alphabetical catalogue.
The library todayThe library of the Archaeological Museum in Zadar today contains around 30,000 varied volumes of library material. The holdings are divided into two basic collections: the book collection (ca. 11,000 vol.) and the periodical collection (with 176 Croatian and 677 foreign titles), along with special collections, including an old book collection (from 1500 to 1850), alonmg with a collection of offprints. Most of the material is from the field of archaeology, history and art history with lesser collections from the fields of religion, literature, and so forth. Libraray material is acquired purely though the exchanges of publications with numerous institutions in the city, country, and abroad, while only a small amount arrives in the library through purchase, donations, or self-publishing activities. All of the newly acquired material is inventorized and processed by computer. This makes it possible to use the search engine of the common catalogue of the networked libraries of the County of Zadar. The library users tend mainly to be members of the founding institution, but its services are also available for other users, such as professors at the University of Zadar, students, and so forth.
The head of the library is Marina Maruna, B.L.S. (
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