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Since 2010 members of the BMN have implemented more then 40 projects. For inspiration and information about previous projects please visit BMN website…
Meet the 2024 Grantees of the First Call
Five projects supported with 34.000 euros as the result of the first public call will be implemented by five diverse organisations. It is our honor to present to you the…
We are happy to announce the results of the first call within the Headley Southeast Europe Cultural Heritage Fund for 2024.A total of 46 applications were submitted, and 40 of…
Celebrating 25 Years of Discovery: Golemo Gradiste Archaeological Site Exhibition Opens
On June 24, 2024, the Archaeological Museum of the Republic of North Macedonia opened an exhibition marking the 25th anniversary of archaeological research at the Golemo Gradište site, near the…
Headley SEE Cultural Heritage Fund Announces New Funding Opportunity for South-Eastern European Heritage Projects
The Headley SEE Cultural Heritage Fund is excited to announce an open call for applications, inviting dedicated organizations from Southeast Europe to engage in groundbreaking projects focused on conserving and…
Art workshop “Morska posla / Works of the Sea”
PI Museum and Gallery Tivat in cooperation with the NGO “Children of Tivat” – “Creative Corner”, and with the support of the “Balkan Museum Network” organized an art workshop for…
Heritage Touch
The “Heritage Touch” project was designed for blind individuals, who are among the most vulnerable and marginalized groups of museum visitors. In an effort to improve accessibility for blind people…
Winners of the Small Grants 2024 Call
After evaluating 8 received applications in line with evaluation criteria and available budget, we are happy to inform you that in the next period 5 museum members will implement their…
Youth Museum Theatre – a program for adolescents
In the National Gallery of Bosnia and Herzegovina, adolescents are common visitors during organized high-school visits, but we lack their self-motivated visits. With this program (implemented from September until December…
Museum of Vojvodina, Picture book Who’s been nibbling?
The Museum of Vojvodina has one of the oldest pedagogical services in the Republic of Serbia. Museum pedagogues and educators create programs for different categories of audience, but the most…
BMN Small Grants 2024: The Call for Proposals
The final call for small grants projects is out and we are inviting member museums to apply to a competitive public call under “Small grants 2024” scheme. Did you know…
Zenica City Museum – Playing Middle Ages
Writen by: Vedrana Arsenić, Zenica City Museum Zenica City Museum has been nurturing the concept of an open museum for years. One of the most important components of this type…
We are very happy to inform you that six museum projects have received funding from BMN Small Grants 2023, thanks to generous support of the Hedley Trust UK. Congratulations to…
BMN Small Grants 2023: The Call for Proposals
We are inviting members to apply to a competitive public call under “Small grants 2023” scheme. Up to 1.200 EUR will be granted to up to 5 member museums in…
Khanga and Kitenge Textiles Interpretation
Museum of African Art, Belgrade The objective of the project carried out at the Museum of African Art was to explore and produce new forms of heritage interpretation pertaining to…
The Bag Full of Toys
War Childhood Museum from Sarajevo (WCM) selected stories about museum objects and printed them in Braille. Also replicas of toys that are museum objects were produced. An inclusive workshop inspired…
Children color history of Jablanica
The Museum „Battle for the Wounded on Neretva River“ Jablanica realized the project „Creating Interpretive Coloring Books“ by implementing two workshops and publishing their first coloring book. The participants of…
MuZEH Lab Jorgan and Artisans-lost nostalgia
Is not always easy deepening into nostalgia, but when it comes to Jorgans-Quilts, then the conversation is pleasant, especially as women are emotionally connected with this beautiful, creative and everyday…
Four museum projects receive support
We are happy to announce that four museums have received support from BMN Small Grants 2022 scheme, thanks to financial support of the Headley Trust UK. They are very excited…
Safe_learning@museum
History Museum of Bosnia and Herzegovina implemented a serious of workshops in cooperation with the Catholic School Center Saint Joseph from Sarajevo. The museum team developing three prototype workshops in…
Digitization as protection of museum artifacts
The Homeland Museum in Visoko has started digitization of the museum artifacts: the legacy of Marica Vojnović, which consists of a collection of photographs, furniture, textile furniture and a collection…
Museums Kotor and Secondary Maritime School Kotor discuss long tradition of maritime sciences
PI Museums Kotor – Museum of the City of Perast is realizing the project “Long tradition of maritime sciences” in cooperation with the Secondary Maritime School Kotor. The cooperation between…
FOCUS – Fostering of Capacities for Unique Senses for visitors
The Museum of the Macedonian Struggle for Independence has realized the project “FOCUS – Fostering of Capacities for Unique Senses for visitors”. The project had many results, such as access…
Five new museum projects
Small Grants 2021 are granted to five member museums. Read summaries of their projects that will be implemented with the financial support of Headley Trust UK.Our colleagues are very excited…
Doll’s talks – exciting puppet show in Museum of Vojvodina
Museum of Vojvodina implemented the project Doll’s talks, a breakthrough in interpreting the heritage in the museum. For the first time, the elements of the puppet theater are used as…
Applications For Small Grants 2021
We are inviting member museums to apply to a competitive public call under “Small grants 2021” scheme. Up to 1.100 EUR will be granted to up to 5 member museums…
Increasing museum access
Archaeological Museum of Republic of North Macedonia produced ten tactile images with Braille, displayed in the exhibition area near the original artifacts, with one main reason – increasing the inclusiveness.…
Call for Applications for BMN Small Grants 2020
APPLICATIONS FOR SMALL GRANTS 2020 ARE OPEN! BMN invites member museums to apply for the call with project proposals in one or more thematic areas: Audience engagement Collection care Heritage…
Support of The Headley Trust UK
We are very grateful for the support of The Headley Trust UK for the grant of £13,500 in the period 2020/21 (May 2020 – March 2022) that will be invested…
Accessible interpretation of The Archaeological Museum of North Macedonia’ collection
Based on the recommendation from the “Access Survey Report” BMN member museum “The Archaeological Museum of North Macedonia” implemented a number of very interesting activities as a significant step in…
Fifth member museum conducts Access Survey
The Archeological Museum of the Republic of North Macedonia is the fifth member of the BMN to undergo the process of access survey. Two access consultants from BMAG (Bakan Museums…
Accessible museum web site and catalogue in Braille
The National Museum of Secret Surveillance: “House of Leaves” has improved the services of the museum for disabled people, especially for visually impaired visitors. The official website of the museum…
Museum of Vojvodina in Novi sad improves its access
Museum of Vojvodina hosted two access consultants Lejla Agic and Dr Irena Ruzin from the Balkan Museum Access Group in 2018. The recommendation which had immediate implications on improved access…
Awarded small grants 2018 to five museum projects
Since 2013, Cultural Heritage without Borders has used grants from different donors to finance and administer the Small Grants programm of the Balkan Museum Network. In the last five years…
Small grants 2018
APPLICATIONS FOR SMALL GRANTS 2018 ARE OPEN! If you have developed a projects proposal dealing with either access and inclusion of Deaf and disabled people in museums or interpretation of…
Inclusive workshops and the digitisation process
Zenica City Museum finalized the implementation of the project “3D MUSE” which produced new museum services, developed educational activities and material, as well as improved the museum infrastructure and established…
One MUSEUM – a lot of HOPE
The National Museum of Leskovac is implementing a project that will bring closer disabled children of this town to the Museum and their heritage. The project “One museum – a…
Small Grants for the Best Museum Project 2017
16 member museums of the Balkan Museum Network applied on the Small Grants call with project ideas focused on access and inclusion of Deaf and disabled people in museums, and…
A Corner Where Magic Happens
The History Museum of Bosnia and Herzegovina has opened a special corner to host children who visit this institution, organized an exhibition and several workshops for autistic children. The History…
Museum4all – Museum2go
More than 200 people were engaged in a cross-border project titled “Museum4all – Museum2go”, implemented by the Homeland Museum of Knjaževac and National Institution Institute and Museum Bitola. “Museum4all –…
Funds for Compelling and Innovative Museum Projects
For the fourth year in a row, Balkan Museum Network (BMN) and Cultural Heritage without Borders in BiH (CHwB BiH) are organizing small grants scheme. ✓ If your museum is…
For the fifth time, Balkan Museum Network has been offering an opportunity to it’s members to gain support for their project idea through the small grants assistance mechanism. Through more…
Funds for Compelling and Innovative Museum Projects
The Balkan Museum Network is launching Call for Small grants. If you have an idea for project in one of these four categories: Access and inclusion of Deaf and disabled people…
“MAA for all, all to the MAA”
Every year, Balkan Museum Network launches a call to fund small projects implemented by museums across the Balkans. One of the five museums supported in 2015 was the Museum of…
“Stories from the past” for better inclusion
“I believe that with this project we got new visitors, and more important new friends of the museum. Zenica City Museum employees who were involved in the project learned more…
Through the activities of the Balkan Museum Network and Cultural Heritage without Borders Bosnia and Herzegovina, five museum projects will be awarded a financial grants of up to € 3.000.…
Thank you all for submitting the project proposal to the call for projects! Please find bellow the list of the institutions that have submitted the proposal. All applicants will be…
Call for Museum Projects!
Are you a museum from the western Balkans? And you want to cooperate with other museums or civil society organizations or artists in solving a problem of your local…
Finalisation of seven museum projects for access and inclusion
Hundreds of people from the Western Balkans participated in different activities organized and implemented by members of the Balkan Museum Network in the last two years. Nenad Vukeljić from Zrenjanin…
As one of the projects that was implemented as part of Cultural Heritage without Borders and Balkan Museum Network’s activities on improving access in the museums in the western Balkans,…
“Touch the History”
History Museum of Bosnia and Herzegovina has dedicated to make museum more accessible to blind and partially sighted persons, through the project “Touch the History.” On the beginning of the…
“Mitrovica je t’aime”
“Mitrovica je t’aime” is a project implemented by the Museum of Mitrovica, under the Negotiating and Past/Storytelling category of a small grants programme of the Balkan Museum Network. Project aims…
Return Memories of the Old Ohrid Fishing Boat
Project „Return Memories of the Old Ohrid Fishing Boat“ is in the process of implementation by the National Institute for Protection of Monuments of Culture and Museum – Ohrid, as…
Children in culture
Under the small grants programme of the Balkan Museum Network, Museum of Tešanj is currently implementing a project „Children in Culture“, that aims to, by creating a favorable environment, socially…
Seven projects to be implemented until the end of 2014
Through the activities of CHwB and with the financial support of government of Sweden and Stavros Niarchos Foundation (as part of its initiative to develop disability inclusion in museums in…
Call for Project Proposals
CHwB, funded by SIDA and Stavros Niarchos Foundation (as part of its initiative to develop disability inclusion in museums in the Western Balkans) is offering grants to museums in the…
Awarded projects
Here you can find the list of institutions (and titles of their projects) that were the most successful applications to CHwB's Call for Project Proposals.