On 19.05.2019 within the national ICOM program for the International Museum Day 2019, HAEMUS organized an educational “Skopje Ottoman Heritage tour”. Our walking tour comprised the cultural and historical monuments of the Ottoman period in which belongs all those architectural objects that have been built since the arrival of the Turks in Macedonia in winter 1391-92 up until the Balkan Wars, and they survive in an authentic or reconstructed form by today. The architectural heritage of the Ottoman Empire has left impressive monuments in Skopje, mainly visible in the old part of the city. Due to
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The Byzantine art and architecture from the moment it was created until today attracts interest and excitement, both to the experts and to the believers, and to all the lovers of the cultural heritage as well. As a region with a vast heritage from different epochs and cultural periods, Skopje region abounds in Christian buildings from all historical eras, ranging from the Roman period to the late Middle Ages. This sacral cultural heritage reflects the cultural tradition and memory of the local communities and represents a set of values that have been created over many
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Within the WWII – MONUMENT SEE project, a one-day regional workshop was held in Podgorica on the new cultural route of the monuments dedicated to the Second World War in Southeast Europe. HAEMUS as an interested party applied for participation in the workshop and the application was accepted. The workshop presented the results of the process of “Assessment of monuments after the Second World War in order to develop a new regional tourism product/cultural route in South East Europe”. Estimates of the monumental heritage after the WWII were carried out by researchers from: Albania, Bosnia
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On behalf HAEMUS team, Ms Vasilka Dimitrovska, director of HAEMUS was a part of the Focus Group Meeting dedicated to the development of the regional umbrella identity Western Balkans – Crossroads of Civilizations, and a regional route dedicated to the post-World War II monuments, Balkan Monumental Trail, held on 23-25 April 2019, in Belgrade, Serbia. The meeting was organized by the Regional Cooperation Council and its Triple P Tourism Project. This Focus Group brought together professionals from the private sector from the six Western Balkans economies with the purpose to discuss options for creating
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Recently HAEMUS signed a memorandum of cooperation with “SPS Idnina Skopje” (Special Primary School “Idnina” from Skopje). We expressed our will to help to children with disabilities to learn more about the rich cultural heritage that surrounds us, through our joint creative workshops. The special primary school “Idnina” – Skopje is a safe environment which accept and educate pupil with mild and combined disabilities in psycho physical development. They employ qualified staff of defectologists, as well as an expert team composed of a speech therapist, a psychologist and a social worker. All of them together provide
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“100 Years of Trebenishte” is an exhibition dedicated to an excavations at the archaeological site near Ohrid, to mark 100 years since the accidental discovery of the Trebenishte site near Ohrid on March 20, 1918. The exhibition was open at the Archaeological Museum of Macedonia at the beginning of March and it will run through late August. More than 400 bronze, silver, gold, ceramic, amber, and glass items are shown, and the exhibit features also the golden masks discovered at the Trebenishte necropolis dating from the sixth-fifth century B.C. The artifacts are described in detail in
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