Marija Živković, Museum Advisor

Marija Živković graduated in History and Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology from the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb. She has been working at the Ethnographic Museum in Zagreb since 2008 and has been promoted to Museum Advisor.

After the exhibitions Smoke – the story of tobacco and Fire, she has focused her interest on the Collection of Non-European Cultures. She edited the publication Croatia and the World: African Collections in the Ethnographic Museum in Zagreb, the online catalogue Research of the Seljan Brothers and the exhibition The Seljan Brothers in Wilderness and Desert, which, adapted in content and technology, was held in twelve cities of South America. At the end of 2024, se opened the long-term exhibition Travellers that contextualizes the Collection of Non-European Cultures.

In the light of contemporary demands for museum decolonization, work on the Collection raises a series of ethical dilemmas. Therefore, her focus is on possible ways of decolonizing the Collection in the local context, as well as the political, cultural and organizational circumstances in which the Collection was created and developed.

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