Methods in working with intangible cultural heritage - report

observation, but try to influence reality 21 ,
then real aspects should be used.
Very important activities are educational
programmes and creative workshops in the
Museum complex. On two occasions, the
Museum organized training of young
people in performing crafts: the first in
1997, in collaboration with the Labour
market, with the project that included three
trades: carpentry, basketware and
coppersmith's, and the other in 2005, in
cooperation with the Local community
Sirogojno and the Ministry of Agriculture,
Forestry and Water Management, which
covered four crafts: weaving, tailoring,
blacksmith’s and basketware 22 . The
workshops included local residents as
carriers and transmitters of knowledge and
skills, as well as the participants
themselves 23 . Unfortunately, in both cases,
the desired result was not achieved, and
that was to get as many young unemployed
people from Zlatibor villages qualified for
dealing with some of these crafts. This was
an attempt to influence the current issue of
depopulation and unemployment.
However, there were very successful
thematic workshops with students of the
Faculty of Applied Arts, who applied their
practical knowledge gained in the
workshops: Processing wool in a
traditional manner, hemp processing in a
traditional way, Old techniques of weaving
on a horizontal loom, Old techniques of
21 Ribić, V. (2007): Primenjena antropologija:
razvoj primenjenih antropoloških istraživanja u
Velikoj Britaniji i Sjedinjenim Američkim
Državama, Beograd: Srpski genealoški centar:
Odeljenje za etnologiju i antropologiju Filozofskog
fakulteta u Beogradu, str. 98
22 Stari zanati i zanimanja: obuka u radionima
Muzeja na otvorenom ,,Staro selo“ u Sirogojnu,
Sirogojno: Muzej na otvorenom ,,Staro selo“, 2005.
23 Tomić-Joković, S. (2011): Edukativne radionice
u oblasti nematerijalnog kulturnog nasleđa, in:
Nematerijalno kulturno nasleđe, ur. Dušica
Živković, Beograd: Ministarstvo kulture
informisanja i informacionog društva: Centar za
zaštitu nematerijalnog kulturnog nasleđa pri
Etnografskom muzeju u Beogradu, str. 80-87
weaving on a vertical loom, in their further
practical work 24 .
Promotion of cultural heritage is a key
aspect in sustainable cultural life. A very
important programme was launched at the
Museum in 2011. It is The Fair of
Traditional Crafts and Occupations, whose
organization is contributing to the
preservation, popularization and evaluation
of craft skills, cultural identity and
intangible cultural heritage, promotion of
the craft activity status and attracting
young people to trades 25 . The tendency of
the Museum is to preserve the handicraft
production from disappearing and
excessive commercialization, to preserve
forms and structures of handicrafts in the
local community that needs to be
developed through this activity, to adapt
certain products to modern needs of
society, to identify the endangered values
and find ways to sustain 26 .
The Fair of Traditional Crafts and
Occupations is an ethnographic exhibition
that presents everyday life, the living
legacy of craftsmanship. This is an
exhibition of objects belonging to the past,
but that are currently being made, because
there is a real need for their use. Some
artisans create items in the presence of
visitors. Artisanal product gains its value
from its creator at the time and place of its
creation, within the cultural context.
Everything that is happening here and now
is being noted.
The programme Fair of Traditional Crafts
and Occupations gives the possibility that
“an object of culture is something one can
feel, smell and use in a variety of ways...
24 Tomić-Joković, S. (2008): Uloga Muzeja na
otvorenom ,,Staro selo” u Sirogojnu u očuvanju i
oživljavanju starih zanata i zanimanja, in: Muzeji,
ur. Ljiljana Gavrilović, Beograd: Muzejsko društvo
Srbije, str. 95-101
25 Vašar starih zanata i zanimanja 1,2, Sirogojno:
Muzej na otvorenom ,,Staro selo” Sirogojno, 2011/
2012.
26 Drugi vašar starih zanata, Sirogojno: Muzej na
otvorenom ,,Staro selo” Sirogojno, 2012.
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