The “Open Depository” Project is unique in its idea, construction and technical realization. There are not many similar projects in Europe and certainly not in the Slovak Republic where museums would open their depositories to the wide public. Collections of the SNU Museum consist of 16,776 pieces of properly registered objects of significant value for the Slovak nation. They are expertly processed according to the cataloguing principles and stored within limited possibilities according to the structure of collections in several depositories. The storage facilities were built in several stages and consist mainly of office cabinets, storage racks and wooden rifle stands. Nowadays, the above-mentioned deposit no longer covers the actual needs of protection and care for the collections of unique value within the Act No. 206/2009 Coll. - on Museums and Galleries and Protection of Objects of Cultural Value, as amended. Their damage may lead to the termination of the informative value of the object.
Summary of bilateral results
The biggest benefits of the bilateral cooperation with the Norwegian partner museum have been:
Two-day-long International conference: Museum Depository Modernisation and Conditions for their Opening to the Broader Public (March 2021)
Three-day-long museological seminar and workshop (October 2023)
Three-day-long Final Conference (March 2024)
In the meantime, the employees of the Museum of the SNU and The Narvik War and Peace Centre had the opportunity to compare experiences through exchanges directly at these two institutions. These exchanges were of great benefit to both partners.
The abovementioned events have been the greatest contributions strengthening the bilateral relations. In cooperation with the education department of the Narvik War and Peace centre, an educational programme has been designed and written, which can be used in the future in both museums for educational purposes, as it uses similar stories of the anti-fascist resistance that took place in Banská Bystrica and Narvik.
In terms of continuing bilateral cooperation with the Norwegian partner museum, a member of the Museum of the SNU, together with the Deputy Director of The Narvik War and Peace Centre, applied to present the outcomes of the project at the ICOM conference: Museum Storage: Current Situation and New challenges:
https://icom.museum/en/news/call-for-papers-museum-storage-current-situ…
There we would have the opportunity to present this international project to the professional public at a global level. The list of presenters will be known at the end of June. Furthermore, the employees of the Norwegian museum have been invited to the 80th anniversary of the Slovak National Uprising celebrations (Oslavy SNP) in Banská Bystrica.
Project details
Project info
Project grant
Grant financing
999357.00€
Final project cost
972624.00€