Montenegro
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MONTENEGRO  2004
Consultants: Jillian Poole
Zagreb, Croatia
Exploratory Seminar
April 25–27, 2004
Twenty-three people from various cities attended a two-day seminar in Podgorica. The attendees were divided into four groups to discuss the major challenges their institutions are currently facing. The consensus was a lack of updated cultural law/strategy; divisions between cultural organization under authority of the Ministry and those controlled by municipal authorities; lack of equipment and facilities; lack of opportunities for staff development; and no flow of information among cultural institutions.
The attendees embarked on a negative discussion of reasons things could not be changed or accomplished. The groups then discussed what they might do to initiate change. Ideas included a children’s education project, gift shops, and CDs. Mrs. Poole interspersed these conversations with talking about total institutional management, building relationships with corporate and individual donors, earning income, and servicing their own publics in order to generate long term support.
The group’s final discussions included developing an administrative organization and an agenda for first a meeting, writing a statement of purpose, and developing ideas for sponsorship. The attendees were reminded to keep the intra-museum organization simple, continue to foster communication, and provide a forum for shared challenges.
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