site.btaNAIM-BAS to Host Days of Croatian Archaeological Heritage

Days of Croatian Archaeological Heritage will be held at the National Archaeological Institute with Museum with the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences NAIM-BAS from November 6 to 8, the hosts announced Tuesday. The initiative includes lectures by leading Croatian museum specialists and archaeologists in the framework of an academic seminar and the poster exhibition "Croatian Archaeological Heritage" at the Archaeological Museum.

The organizers of the event are the Embassy of Croatia in Bulgaria, the Zagreb Archaeological Museum and NAIM-BAS.

Dr. Marko Dizdar and Dr. Tomislav Bilic (November 6), Tino Lelekovic and Sanjin Mihelic (7 November) will take part in the lecture programme, which will also be translated into English in the meeting room of the Archaeological Museum.

On November 6, Dr. Marko Dizdar will give the lecture on early Iron Age identities in the Danube Region of Croatia.

Dr. Tomislav Bilic’s lecture is titled "Between archaeology, history, tradition and change: current numismatic research in Croatia".

On November 7, Tino Lelekovic will speak on the topic "Beyond the Border. New discoveries and insights into Roman life on the Croatian Danube Limes".

Sanjin Mihelic will speak about Croatian archaeological heritage. The seminar is organized in the context of the poster exhibition, which can be seen in the central hall of the museum from October 8 to January 26, 2025. The curator is Sanjin Mihelic, director of the Zagreb Archaeological Museum from 2016 to 2023. The exhibition was created in cooperation with the Croatian Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs and consists of thirty large-format posters taking viewers on a journey through Croatia's most remarkable archaeological sites and monuments, tracing the country's development from prehistory to modern times, say the event's organizers.