Author: Muzej Ohrid

Monetary Circulation at Plaoshnik-Ohrid in the Roman Imperial Period

07. 07. 2017

Last night, in the house of Urania was held a promotion of the scientific work “The Monetary circulation at Plaoshnik-Ohrid in the Imperial Period” by Sanja Bitrak, archaeologist and numismatist from Ohrid who is employed at the Archaeological Museum in Skopje.
In antiquity, the ancient Lychnidos was a significant economic center and a minted its own coins called lychnidions, and also their coins have minted the Desaretti tribe that inhabited this area.

During the excavations of Plaoshnik, over 20,000 coins were discovered that not only enriched the city’s numismatic fund, but also gave some data on the economic and historical activity of this city and region.

The book contains 287 coins found at this site in the period from 2001 to 2010. The coins are minted of silver and bronze, and they are very important as a cultural heritage.
The book promoter, Dr. Slavica Babamova, noted that it contains many important data, unknown to the scientific public and that it fills an important segment of the history of Macedonia in the Roman period, a historical era for which the events in Macedonia are quite briefly mentioned in ancient sources.

The book “Monetary Circulation at Plaoshnik-Ohrid in the Roman Imperial Period” is the first work of Sanja Bitrak, and the promotion was organized by the NI Institute and Museum Ohrid.

Promotion of the book “Monetary Circulation at Plaoshnik-Ohrid in the Roman Imperial Period” by the archaeologist and numismatist Sanja Bitrak

Exhibition of fresco copies, church embroideries and liturgical items

25. 06. 2017 – 30. 06. 2017

By the end of June 2017, another part of the rich heritage from the collections of the NI Institute and Museum-Ohrid was exhibited in the lower space of the Icon Gallery-Ohrid.

It is about twenty frescoes with the images of Slavic Enlighteners Ss. Clement and Naum of Ohrid, but also Ss. Cyril and Methodius and other saints from the churches in Macedonia and neighboring countries, but also one from Rome, Italy. Copies were made mostly in 1966 and 1980, on the occasion of the celebration of the 1050th anniversary of the death of St. Clement of Ohrid (1966) and the opening of the Museum of Slavic Literacy in Ohrid (1980) by the most famous copists of the time, such as Dragomir Jasovic, Zdenka Zivkovic, Nikola Conev and others. Last year, 2016, most of these frescoes were exhibited at the exhibition “St. Clement of Ohrid and his presentations in the art” at the University Urbaniana in the Vatican, as well as at two other exhibitions in Skopje and Ohrid.

Within this exhibition are exhibited a certain number of church embroideries and liturgical items from the collection, in order to enrich the content and diversity of objects presented to visitors of the Gallery of Icons-Ohrid.

Exhibition of fresco copies, church embroideries and liturgical items

Summer School of Architecture

25. 06. 2017 – 02. 07. 2017

Last night, the fifth session of the International Summer School of Architecture, organized by the Faculty of Architecture and Design at the University “American College” in Skopje and NI Institute for Protection of Monuments of Culture and Museum-Ohrid was opened in Center for Culture “Grigor Prlichev” in Ohrid.

The dean, Prof Dr Mishko Ralev and the head of the school, Vladimir Deskov, addressed at the opening ceremony, after which the Slovenian architect Dean Lah gave a lecture.

After the act of opening and the lecture of Dean Lah, the participants of the Summer School, together with the organizers, the hosts and the guests, had the opportunity for unconventional talks and friendship at a small cocktail, organized in the area of the Lapidarium, next to the Robev family house.

The Summer School, which this year’s theme is “Natural Systems” will be led by the architect Dean Lah, co-founder and partner in the renowned architectural studio “Enota” from Ljubljana and will last until July 2. Guests of the school will be the architects Kreshimir Rogina and Vinko Penezic from Croatia, as well as Jurij Lichen from Slovenia. Students of architecture from the universities “American College” and “St. Cyril and Methodius” will take participation at the school. Within the school, lectures will be given by guest lecturers, and on Saturday, 01. 07. 2017, a public presentation of student projects will be held.

Opening of the fifth International Summer School of Architecture

Exhibition “Intaglio” from Print Nest Studio +

16. 06. 2017 – 29. 06. 2017

The exhibition “Intaglio” that was open on 16. 06. 2017 in the Art Gallery “Robevci”consists of graphics works of the authors from “Print Nest Studio” from Sofia, Bulgaria. Six young artists both from Macedonia and Bulgaria, who cherish the traditional graphic techniques, established their own studio in Sofia.

The studio combines different personalities, people with different abilities and attitude to life, but with a common goal in the art. The feature in the graphics of the young authors Zoran Mishe, Ivan Mateev, Vasil Angelov, Goran Trichkovski, Pavel Celkoski and Iva Dimitrova.is to build the image in the range of black and white. They use mainly traditional graphic techniques for creating forms and spaces, conditions, thoughts and feelings. The thematic register is diverse and multi-layered. The forms vary in possible technical range from the accuracy of the miniature to monumental. The exhibition will last until June 29.

Exhibition “Intaglio” from Print Nest Studio +

27th traditional exhibition on occasion of May 18th, the International Museum Day

19. 05. 2017

Traditionally as in the past years, NI Institute and Museum-Ohrid is marking May 18th, the International Museum Day. This year it will be celebrated with the 27th exhibition of artworks from our rich fund of contemporary art. Such as in the previous years, the exhibition will display the works of artists who had their exhibitions in the last several years in the Robevci Art Gallery.

traditional exhibition on occasion of May 18th, the International Museum Day

Visit of the reactive monitoring mission of UNESCO/ICOMOS/IUCN

 09. 04. 2017 – 14. 04. 2017

From 9 to 14 April 2017 a reactive monitoring mission UNESCO/ ICOMOS / IUCN stayed in our country to inspect the implemented activities and to assess how their recommendations on the scope of construction activities and their impact on the environment and cultural heritage if the world heritage site “Natural and Cultural Heritage of the Ohrid Region” are obeyed.

Mission members: Ms. Anna Sidorenko, representative of the World Heritage Center of UNESCO, Ms. Maja Vasiljevic of the IUCN (International Union for Conservation of Nature, an advisory body of UNESCO) and Mr. Pierre-Marie Tricaud, representative of ICOMOS (International Council of Monuments and Sites, an advisory body of UNESCO) today had a working meeting in NI Institute for protection of monuments of Culture and Museum- Ohrid. According to Ms. Sidorenko, the goal of the meeting was to obtain information and to review efforts, projects and progress in their implementation by the central and local government in the protection of cultural heritage and implementation of remarks by UNESCO from the 40th session held in Istanbul last year. After the monitoring by the mission, as well as meetings and consultations that follow, they will present their further guidance and recommendations.

Visit of the reactive monitoring mission of UNESCO/ICOMOS/IUCN

Visit of the judges for the “Zhiva” award

04. 04. 2017 – 05. 04. 2017

Forum of Slavic Cultures (FSK) is a nonprofit organization founded in 2004 in Ljubljana. The initiative team of experts of the member countries of the Forum (Belarus, Bulgaria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Czech Republic, Croatia, Macedonia, Poland, Russia, Slovenia, Slovakia and Serbia) in 2012 established the award “Zhiva” and the competition is in six categories.

With their participation, the member states of FSK promote outstanding achievements in the field of cultural values ​​emphasizing at this the significant cultural heritage of Slavic countries. The “Zhiva” award itself is called according to the Slavic goddess of fertility, whose main attribute is grain, so the appearance of this special award is inspired from the classes of wheat.

This year the awards will be held at Bled in Slovenia, from 20 to 24 September and our institution is the only nominee of our country among more than 20 museums from 13 countries.

These days (4-5 April) judges Biljana Brajovic from Montenegro and Katja Dzhumalieva from Bulgaria came to Ohrid to inspect and assess the capacity values, meaning, richness and diversity of our museum collections and in general the overall activity of NI Institute and museum-Ohrid in the field of preservation, documentation, protection and conservation and, of course, the presentation of the huge fund of cultural heritage entrusted to us for preservation for future generations. The photos are from today’s visit to the Museum on Water in the Gulf of Bones, only one of its kind in the Balkans and in the wider region in general. According to the reactions and unabashed admiration of the judges, we are really a serious candidate for one of the prizes, keep your fingers crossed for us!

Visit of the judges for the “Zhiva” award

Exhibition of Small Format Association of Fine Artists of Macedonia

02. 06. 2017 – 15. 06. 2017

The exhibition “Small Format” is presentation of artworks made in various art techniques from 50 Macedonian authors, members of the Association of Fine Artists of Macedonia. The small format has always been a creative challenge and temptation even for the greatest artists such as Picasso, Dali, Matisse, Lautrec, Van Gogh, Gauguin, artists from all schools, art movements and styles that felt the inner urge to master the little square, with dimensions 25 x 25cm, and in a concise, sometimes metaphorical way to convey the motive of the big canvas in the shrunken dimensions. The exhibition which was opened on June 2 will last until June 15.

Exhibition of Small Format Association of Fine Artists of Macedonia

Inscriptions, a woman in space

 09. 09. 2016 – 16. 09. 2016

Mustafa Cevat Atalay was born in Karaman, Turkey. He graduated from the “Selcuk” University and completed his doctoral studies at “Gazi University”.Since 2013 he works as a lecturer at the “Namik Kemal” University in Tekirdag, Turkey.

He has six solo exhibitions behind him and also numerous group exhibitions. “Inscriptions, a woman in space” is the latest cycle of paintings with which the author presented himself to the Ohrid audience.

“Inscriptions, a woman in space” by Turkish artist Mustafa Dzevat Atal Memorial house of Hristo Uzunov

Portraits of St. Clement of Ohrid in the art in Macedonia and neighboring countries

09. 08. 2016 – 20. 08. 2016

Within the activities of the Macedonian Academy of Arts and Sciences to mark the 1100 anniversary of the reposal of St. Clement of Ohrid, on August 9, 2016, in the cathedral church of St. Sophia in Ohrid an exhibition of copies of frescoes depicting the saint from the churches and monasteries in Macedonia and neighboring countries was opened. The exhibition actually consisted of fresco copies that on May 24 the same year, in organization of NI Institute and Museum-Ohrid, on the occasion of the traditional manifestation “Macedonia Honoring St. Cyril”, was opened at the Pontifical University Urbaniana at the Vatican, complemented with several other exhibits, copies of frescoes and photos. This same exhibition earlier was on display in the premises of the Macedonian Academy of Arts and Sciences in Skopje.

“Portraits of St. Clement of Ohrid in the art in Macedonia and neighboring countries” in the church. Sophia in Ohrid