The Role of CULTURA ANIMI Foundation

9 January 2008, Sibiu

CULTURA ANIMI’s scope of activity includes programmes and projects in the field of culture, science and education.

The team is experienced in ‘cultural PR’. Developing presentation and communication of partners’ projects.

The contact person for F-MU.S.EU.M. project:

Asen Velichkovsofia@cultura-animi.org

+359 889 197 467

Support for the cooperating museums from Bulgaria

Innovation of the communication of the web site and the virtual museum

Development of an e-course for ‘museum communicator’

Organization of the second project meeting in Sofia

REGIONAL HISTORY MUSEUM RUSE

website: http://www.museumruse.com/index.htmlMore significant sites: Ruse Tell (big and small)–

agricultural settlement existed from Copper-Stone Age till the Roman Ages. The big tell is fully studied, the small one is not excavated yet. Currently museum archaeologists are working on 2 settlement tells near Koprivetz village and near Kosharna village

Collection: the museum has a number of clay models of dwellings, agricultural tools of bone and stone, clay anthropomorphic and zoomorphic figures, ceramic vessels, adornments and amulets.

ARCHAEOLOGICAL MUSEUM VELIKO TARNOVO

website: http://www.veliko-tarnovo.net/index.php?page=dir&dir_id=1&subdir=2&content=42

More significant sites: Settlement near Orlovetz (6200 years BC) and Katchitza (5100-4800 years BC), tells near Samovodene (5700-5000 years BC) and near Hotnitza – the most remarkable site from the Eneolithic period in Bulgaria.

Collection: the museum has rich Neolithic and Eneolithic collection of ceramic vessels, cult tables (altars), animal plastics and human figures, tools and ornaments of stone, bone and horn + the remarkable gold treasure from Hotnitza

Well-built structureUser friendly3-D modelsInformative picturesScientific informationLots of interesting stuff to examine…Main problem – dedicated too much to

specialists

To bring the virtual museum on the front and leave the project website on the back

To change the photographic perspective (bigger images, scanned pictures)

To use interdisciplinary and journalistic approach in the stories/deepenings (the important role of the museum communicator)

Video-clips creating visual context of the presented objects (atmosphere, sites, field work, interviews etc.)

Online shop for replica figurines from the virtual museum collection

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