Annual Meeting of ICOM ICR in SERBIA

Annual Meeting of ICOM ICR  (International Committee for Regional Museums) will be organized in Serbia, from 23 September – 2 October 2012, with the topic Gastronomic Heritage. The conference is organized in cooperation with Regional alliance of ICOM for South East Europe- ICOM SEE, National Committee of ICOM of Serbia and Museum in Prijepolje.

Conference will especially envisage the role of the Regional museums in the promotion and preservation of gastronomic heritage. The main event of Conference will be organized in the little multicultural town Prijepolje, situated in the mountain in the South West Serbia and in the border of 3 countries: Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Montenegro.  

The Conference program will include: stay in town Prijepolje, visits to different multicultural places of this part of the Serbia (archaeological sites, medieval monasteries and churches, traditional ethno villages, reserve of natural rarities etc). This part of program will include the visit of Open Air Museum in Sirogojno- ethnographical museum who care for the gastronomic heritage of this part of West Serbia.

Program will also include the Post Conference Tour that will be realized in the East, South or North part of Serbia. These parts of Serbia are culturally different from South West Serbia where, town Prijepolje, is situated. 

Also, this conference will give opportunities to all participants to promote their own cultural heritage. Specificity of this Conference is to introduce to participants, from all around the world, traditional elements of Balkan and Slavic heritage in the Serbia today.

Colleagues in Serbia are very happy to host all our colleagues from all around the world for this important conference of ICR.

Here you can find documents on the Conference:

ICR ICOM Newsletter 1-2012

The Program of the Conference