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Tomislav Šola is professor of museology

Museology

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, head of the post-graduate study of museology and head of the chair on museology and heritage

Cultural heritage

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management at the University of Zagreb

University of Zagreb

The University of Zagreb is the biggest Croatian university and the oldest continuously operating university in the area covering Central Europe south of Vienna and all of Southeastern Europe...

. He is also a guest professor at the University of Arts in Belgrade

University of Arts in Belgrade

The University of Arts in Belgrade is a public university in Belgrade, founded in 1957 as the Academy of Arts to unite four academies...

and European University in Budapest. He is chairman of Association for cultural tourism

Cultural tourism

Cultural tourism is the subset of tourism concerned with a country or region's culture, specifically the lifestyle of the people in those geographical areas, the history of those peoples, their art, architecture, religion, and other elements that helped shape their way of life...

at the Croatian Chamber of Economy, founder of NGO European Heritage Association and the founder & organizer of annual museum

Museum

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and heritage

Cultural heritage

survey „The Best in Heritage

The Best in Heritage

The Best in Heritage is an international annual survey of awarded museum, heritage and conservation projects. The survey was launched in 2003 by the European Heritage Association from Zagreb under leadership from professor Tomislav Šola. The event is being held every year in the city of Dubrovnik,...

“. Tomislav Šola is a member of the scientific council, Catalan Institute of Cultural Heritage in Girona, Spain, advisory board member of the Association of Peace Museums and council member of Europa Nostra

Europa Nostra

Europa Nostra, the pan-European Federation for Cultural Heritage, is the representative platform of 250 heritage NGOs active in 45 countries across Europe...

Career

After earning a degree in the History of Art from the University of Zagreb, where he also studied journalism and museology at the post-graduate level, he started his museum career as a curator at what is today the Contemporary Art Museum in Zagreb.
While attending the courses from Georges Henri Rivière

Georges Henri Rivière

Georges-Henri Rivière was a French museologist, and innovator of modern French ethnographic museology practices.Rivière studied music until 1925, when he began museum studies at the Ecole du Louvre, from which he graduated in 1928. During the following years, he cared for the D...

at the Sorbonne

Sorbonne

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in the late ’70 he worked in International Council of Museums

International Council of Museums

The International Council of Museums is an international organization of museums and museum professionals that is committed to the conservation, continuation and communication to society of the world's natural and cultural heritage, present and future, tangible and intangible.- Overview :Created...

(ICOM) Documentation centre, and was later director of the Museum Documentation Centre of Yugoslavia and editor-in-chief of the magazine "Informatica Museologica". In 1985 he earned a Ph.D. in museology at the University of Ljubljana

University of Ljubljana

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, Slovenia

Slovenia

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Tomislav Šola was engaged in important duties within the international museum profession, including the chairmanship of the National Committee of ICOM-UNESCO

UNESCO

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, a seat on the Executive Council of ICOM, and the board membership in ICOFOM/ICOM (International Committee of Museology). Until 2001 he was member of the jury of the European Museum of the Year Award

European Museum of the Year Award

The European Museum of the Year Award , established in 1977, is presented each year by the European Museum Forum , under the Council of Europe...

(EMF/Council of Europe

Council of Europe

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). Presently he is a member of the Advisory Editorial Board of "Museum International

Museum International

Museum International is a peer-reviewed academic journal that covers research on the ethics and practices of museums and heritage organizations. It is published quarterly by Wiley-Blackwell on behalf of UNESCO. The editor-in-chief is Isabelle Vinson....

" (UNESCO

UNESCO

The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization is a specialized agency of the United Nations...

) , of "Museum Practice" (Museums Association

Museums Association

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, UK) and International Journal of Heritage Studies (UK) and is also a member of advisory committee of International Network of Peace Museums and of scientific committee of Institut del Patrimoni Cultural (Girona, Spain). Professor Šola is a founder of NGO European Heritage Association and the founder & organiser of "The Best in Heritage

The Best in Heritage

", the international, annual survey of awarded museum

Museum

and heritage

Cultural heritage

projects.
In his professional career he wrote a number of books, articles and presentations regarding modern museology, museum marketing, cultural heritage

Cultural heritage

institutions and contemporary museum praxis. He is author of numerous museum projects and serves as a consultant to many museum and heritage institutions from Croatia, Slovenia, Germany, England, Serbia and Montenegro.

Books

Antimuzej: bibliofilsko izdanje, Zagreb: Zbirka Biškupić, 1985.
Ivan Lacković-Croata, Zagreb: Mladinska knjiga, l986.
The Museum Curator: endangered species. // Museums 2000 / ed. by Patrick Boylan. London : Association Routledge, 1990.
Museums and Curatorship // The Museum Profession/ ed. by Gaynor Kavanagh. Leicester : Leicester University Press,1991.
The European Dream and Reality of Museums: a report from South-East // Museums and Europe 1992 / ed. by Susan Pearce, London : The Athlone Press, 1992.
Museums, museology, and ethics: a changing paradigm // Museum Ethics/ ed. by Gary Edson, London : Routledge,1997.
Essays On Museums And Their Theory: towards the cybernetic museum, Helsinki: Finnish Museums Association, 1997.
Začarane minijature u prostoru // Bahunek / ed. by Burt Chernow, Nakladni zavod Zagreb : Globus,1998.
Redefining Collecting// Museums and the Future of Collecting/ ed. by Simon J. Knell, Ashgate : Aldershot, 1999.
Marketing u Muzejima: ili o vrlini i kako je obznaniti, Zagreb: Hrvatsko muzejsko društvo, 2001.

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