The European Night of Museums, which was scheduled to take place on 17 May, was cancelled due to the emergency situation in the Republic of Srpska caused by devastating flooding.
It would have been the ninth consecutive time for The Museum of Contemporary Art of the Republic of Srpska to celebrate 18 May, International Museum Day, with a special programme of activities and a major music event in front of the Museum.
However, given the emergency situation in the Republic of Srpska and actions of solidarity with the population hit by the floods, MSURS resorted out its priorities, reoriented all its activities and professional capacities, and communicated intensively with the institutions of culture that had suffered damage in the floods, in order to provide technical assistance to them and ensure the protection of the national cultural heritage.
On 21 May 2014, a team of MSURS specialists, together with a number of professors and students of the Banja Luka Academy of Arts and representatives of the National Theatre of the Republic of Srpska, visited the Centre for Culture and Education and the Regional Museum in Doboj to offer help to their colleagues. On that occasion, they gave humanitarian aid to the Centre for Culture and Education and the Regional Museum in Doboj and assisted with cleaning the buildings.
In addition to visiting and helping these institutions of culture after the floods, MSURS launched a charity campaign during which its visitors had a chance to buy T-shirts with the logo of this year’s The European Night of Museums, previously made to help mark the event. All proceeds from the sale of the T-shirts went to the kindergarten ‘Neven’ in Čelinac, which was badly damaged in the floods. This donation was spent to equip an art classroom and meet the minimum requirements for the children and their nurses and teachers to have an area to freely develop children’s artistic talents, skills and work habits. The easels, paints, writing pads, didactic toys, accessories and art materials will hopefully awaken curiosity and creativity in children, within the mandatory preschool curriculum and art education syllabus, and so develop a positive attitude towards art, museums and cultural heritage.
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