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Dragana Lucija Ratković Aydemir
Other Names:Dragana Lucija Ratković–Aydemir
Birth Date:24 September 1969
Birth Place:Zagreb, Croatia
Nationality:Croatian
Education:University of Zagreb
Spouse:Oğuz H. Aydemir

Dragana Lucija Ratković Aydemir (Zagreb, 24 September 1969), is a Croatian art historian, museum professional, scholar, and entrepreneur in culture and tourism. She lives and works in Zagreb, Croatia; Istanbul and Çeşme, Turkey.

Education and early career

She graduated in 1994 in comparative literature and art history at the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Zagreb.

In the same year in 1994, she was employed at the Institute for the Protection of Cultural Monuments of the Ministry of Culture in Croatia. She specializes in inventorying, the inventory and protection of movable sacral heritage, and especially in liturgical vestments and silverware.

In the late 1990s and early 2000s, she curated permanent exhibitions of sacral heritage in the parish church of the Annunciation in Svetvinčenat and the Franciscan monastery in Rovinj, sacral exhibitions in the Parish Church of St. Martin in Tara near Poreč[1] and the collection of liturgical textiles and silver in the museum of the Euphrasian Basilica complex in Poreč. In 1997, she was awarded a UNESCO scholarship for professional training in the field of conservation and restoration of cultural property at the Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń, and in Warsaw and Krakow.[2]

Entrepreneurship in culture

In 2005, she obtained a European Diploma in Cultural Management from the Marcel Hicter Foundation, Brussels and in the same year founded a company operating in the fields of heritage interpretation, museology (eco-museology), heritage management and sustainable cultural tourism.[3] [4]

Maritime heritage and community museums

In 2003, in cooperation with the local community, she participated in the development of the Batana Ecomuseum,[5] which encouraged the establishment of a number of maritime community museums throughout the Adriatic. In 2007, the Batana Ecomuseum was shortlisted for the European Museum of the Year Award.[6] It was included in the UNESCO Register of Best Practices for the Preservation of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of the World in 2016.[7]

Through her activities, she also contributes to the introduction of ecomuseums in Croatian museum legislation.[8]

Sustainable cultural tourism in practice

In 2006, she participated in the development of cultural tourism in Ogulin. Ivana Brlić-Mažuranić's fairy tales have been recognized as the central cultural potential for the development of Ogulin, the homeland of fairy tales and cultural and tourist products: the Ogulin Fairy Tale Festival (OGFB) and the Ivana's House of Fairy Tales Visitor's Centre.[9] The permanent exhibition of the Ivana's House of Fairy Tales Visitor's Centre was declared the best in 2013 by the Croatian Museum Council in Croatia, and in 2016 it was shortlisted for the European Museum of the Year award.[10]

Croatian national parks and nature parks

In the period from 2012 to 2016, she managed the project of interpretation and presentation of nature for 30 investments of the network of national parks, nature parks and protected areas of the Republic of Croatia within EU Natura 2000.[11] National parks of the Republic of Croatia communicate as a single entity with a common visual identity and systematic development of interpretive infrastructure, of which the Underground Secrets of Paklenica Visitor Centre in Paklenica National Park,[12] the Poklon Visitor Centre in Učka Nature Park, the Medvedgrad Visitor Centre in Medvednica Nature Park, and the in Međimurje.[13]

Volunteering

She volunteers in various national and European heritage associations. In 2009, she was elected president of the Barcelona-based Association of Mediterranean Maritime Museums (AMMM). Since 2020, she has been the president of the Croatian Association for the Interpretation of Heritage, and since 2019 a member of the supervisory board of Interpret Europe.[14]

Selected bibliography

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Croatia. Parentium Media Porec. Papirnata riznica kulturne baštine - predstavljena monografija »Tar, Frata, Vabriga – kulturna baština«. 2021-04-19. www.parentium.com. hr.
  2. https://rm.coe.int/european-heritage-days-assembly-strasbourg-17-19-october-2018-programm/16808e5ec2 EUROPEAN HERITAGE DAYS ASSEMBLY
  3. Web site: Organisations. NEMO-The Network of European Museum. Dragana Lucija Ratković Aydemir. 2021-04-19. NEMO - The Network of European Museum Organisations. en.
  4. Aydemir. Dragana Lucija Ratković. Tolić. Helena. Boljat. Ivana Jagić. 2019-11-29. Intangible Cultural Heritage as a Catalyst for Local Development and Well-being: The Case of Pleternica, Croatia. Museum International. 71. 3-4. 156–167. 10.1080/13500775.2019.1706954. 1350-0775.
  5. Book: Safeguarding maritime intangible cultural heritage: Ecomuseum Batana, Croatia. 2016-12-08. Routledge. 978-1-315-71640-4. en. 10.4324/9781315716404-48/safeguarding-maritime-intangible-cultural-heritage-ecomuseum-batana-croatia-dragana-lucija-ratković-aydemir. 2021-04-19. 2021-04-19. https://web.archive.org/web/20210419192824/https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.4324/9781315716404-48/safeguarding-maritime-intangible-cultural-heritage-ecomuseum-batana-croatia-dragana-lucija-ratkovi%C4%87-aydemir. dead.
  6. http://www.ammm-info.net/images/ammm/documents/archive/newlsetter/AMMM_News_6.pdf Papirnata riznica kulturne baštine - predstavljena monografija »Tar, Frata, Vabriga – kulturna baština«
  7. Web site: UNESCO - Community project of safeguarding the living culture of Rovinj/Rovigno: the Batana Ecomuseum. 2021-04-19. ich.unesco.org. en.
  8. Aydemir. Ratković. Lucija. Dragana. 2013. Ekomuzej Batana, Rovinj-Rovigno: hrvatska ekomuzeologija na "mala vrata". Informatica museologica. hr. 44. 1-4. 35–46. 0350-2325.
  9. Web site: Muze d.o.o tvrtka za menadžment u kulturi. 2021-04-19. en-US.
  10. Web site: 'Ivanina kuća bajke' u utrci za nagradu 'Europski muzej godine 2016.'. 2021-04-19. tportal.hr.
  11. http://www.parcs.ch/nwp/pdf_public/2020/39094_20200211_084537_202001_ZELT10_kreisel_auszug.pdf Tourism research and landscape interpretation
  12. Web site: 2016-09-14. Podzemni grad Paklenica: Od Titova bunkera do turističke atrakcije u velebitskom Međuzemlju. 2021-04-19. TRIS portal - Šibenik. hr.
  13. Web site: Med dvemi vodami, Križovec. 2021-04-19. hr.
  14. Web site: Interpret Europe: Supervisory Committee. 2021-04-19. www.interpret-europe.net.

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