Stranice

Office for Cultural Property

Address: Kaptol 31, 10000 Zagreb, Croatia
Phone / Fax: +385 1 4894 846
E-mail: kulturna-dobra@zg-nadbiskupija.hr
Head of the Office and the Director of the Diocesan Museum: rev. Vlado Mikšić
Secretary of the Office: Tomica Plukavec
Office hours: 9 a.m. -1 p.m.

Continuing the traditional care of preservation of the religious and cultural heritage following the guidelines of the Second Vatican Council on religious art as well as the latest provisions of the Church contained in the document De cura patrimonii historiciartistici Ecclesiae as of April 11, 1971 and the Apostolic Constitution Pastor Bonus as of June 28, 1988, the Archbishop of Zagreb, Msgr. Bozanić  alongside the Office for Cultural Heritage of the Archdiocese of Zagreb on December 6, 1999 founded the Committee for  Cultural Heritage of the Archdiocese of Zagreb and  the Archdiocesan Board of Sacral Art.

The purpose of the Office is to coordinate the committees and to monitor, study and promote various areas of religious and ecclesiastical art, and to help with its advice to the Archbishop of Zagreb, in performing his pastoral duties associated with sacral and ecclesiastical art, but also to provide suitable accommodation for the capital institutions of the Archdiocese of Zagreb: Diocesan Museum with its collections and  the Metropolitan gallery of Msgr. Đuro Kokša, Zagreb Cathedral’s Treasury and the Archdiocesan Archives and the Archives of  the Cathedral Chapter of Zagreb.

Office monitors and improves the condition of sacral art in the Archdiocese of Zagreb, proposes measures of protection and conservation of worship buildings and sacral art items and encourages church officials and the faithful to keep the art treasures of the Church, encourages various forms of sacral art and decides whether art is sacral or not, in collaboration with experts and similar church institutions.

The Office has established prolific cooperation with the Ministry of Culture, the Academy of Fine Arts, the Conservation Institutes in Zagreb and Krapina, City Bureau for Protection of Cultural Monuments and Nature and number of authorized restorers and conservators.

Wanting to introduce the cultural goods of the Archdiocese of Zagreb  to the present-day world, to encourage priests and the faithful to conservation and understanding of the ecclesiastic cultural and sacral heritage and to effectively accomplish the guidelines of the Holy See, Nadbiskupski duhovni stol at its consistory session of November 16,2001 has accepted  the proposal of the Office for Cultural Heritage of the Archdiocese of Zagreb to start  publishing a magazine Bona Culturalia Ecclesiae in cooperation with Glas Koncila as publisher.

The magazine is for the time being envisaged as a yearbook, and its purpose is to serve as a guardian and promoter of ecclesiastical cultural goods of the Archdiocese of Zagreb and to create a new and effective relationship between the Church and culture, i.e. to establish a dialogue between faith and culture.
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