The Role of CULTURA ANIMI Foundation

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F-MU.S.EU.M. Project

• The Role of CULTURA ANIMI Foundation
• 9 January 2008, Sibiu

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Introduction

• CULTURA ANIMIs 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 Velichkov
• sofia_at_cultura-animi.org
• 359 889 197 467

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Main tasks in the project

• 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

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Cooperating museums from Bulgaria

• REGIONAL HISTORY MUSEUM RUSE
• website http//www.museumruse.com/index.html
• More 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.

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Cooperating museums from Bulgaria

• ARCHAEOLOGICAL MUSEUM VELIKO TARNOVO
• website http//www.veliko-tarnovo.net/index.php?p
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• 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

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Starting point MU.S.EU.M. website

• Well-built structure
• User friendly
• 3-D models
• Informative pictures
• Scientific information
• Lots of interesting stuff to examine
• Main problem dedicated too much to specialists

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Recommendations

• 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)

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Proposals

• 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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Comments and other proposals