Zarka Vujic
Žarka Vujić was born in 1959 in North Croatia. In 1988 she graduated from the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb by defending the thesis at the Art History Department. After completing the graduate programme of information sciences at the Faculty of Organization and Informatics in Varaždin in 1992, she obtained an MA degree in Museology and a PhD degree in the same field in 1998 at the Department of Information and Communication Sciences at the Faculty where she is currently employed as professor.
In 1985, Ž. Vujić was employed as a museum technician and librarian at the Strossmayer Gallery of Old Master in Zagreb. At the end of 1988 she took up a position of a head librarian and researcher at the Institute of Art History in Zagreb. In 1993 she started working as an assistant researcher at the Museology Sub-Department where she advanced to the position of full professor in 2012.
She has published several book chapters and numerous scientific and professional papers. Also, she participated in numerous international and Croatian scientific and professional conferences. She authored two books both of which were awarded. Origins of Museums in Croatia received the Annual Award of the Croatian Museum Association in 2007, and the second book, The Ullrich Salon on its Centenary, which was based on an interdisciplinary research, received the Annual Award of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in 2011. Her editorial work includes the book In the Memory of Ivo Maroević published in 2009. as well as Heritage visitors research in 2014.
In the period from 1991 to this day, Ž. Vujić has participated in eight research projects with various degrees of involvement and assuming different roles. Taken as a whole, her interests have since the very beginning of her scientific work been focused on three research areas – historical museology (history of museums and collecting in Croatia), theoretical museology (collecting and collection formation, ascribing meaning and creating heritage, visitor research) and the interdisciplinary field combining museology and art history.
In 1985, Ž. Vujić was employed as a museum technician and librarian at the Strossmayer Gallery of Old Master in Zagreb. At the end of 1988 she took up a position of a head librarian and researcher at the Institute of Art History in Zagreb. In 1993 she started working as an assistant researcher at the Museology Sub-Department where she advanced to the position of full professor in 2012.
She has published several book chapters and numerous scientific and professional papers. Also, she participated in numerous international and Croatian scientific and professional conferences. She authored two books both of which were awarded. Origins of Museums in Croatia received the Annual Award of the Croatian Museum Association in 2007, and the second book, The Ullrich Salon on its Centenary, which was based on an interdisciplinary research, received the Annual Award of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in 2011. Her editorial work includes the book In the Memory of Ivo Maroević published in 2009. as well as Heritage visitors research in 2014.
In the period from 1991 to this day, Ž. Vujić has participated in eight research projects with various degrees of involvement and assuming different roles. Taken as a whole, her interests have since the very beginning of her scientific work been focused on three research areas – historical museology (history of museums and collecting in Croatia), theoretical museology (collecting and collection formation, ascribing meaning and creating heritage, visitor research) and the interdisciplinary field combining museology and art history.
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