NVITATION TO A PUBLIC LECTURE FROM THE “OUR HERITAGE” LECTURE SERIES Friday, May 29, 2026, at 7:00 PM Museum Sarajevo 1878–1918 “BETWEEN SCIENCE AND HERITAGE: THE MOVABLE HERITAGE OF THE FACULTY OF NATURAL SCIENCES AND MATHEMATICS” You are cordially invited to attend a public lecture from the “Our Heritage” lecture series, entitled “Between Science and Heritage: The Movable Heritage of the Faculty of Natural Sciences and Mathematics,” to be held on Friday, May 29, 2026, at 7:00 PM at the Museum Sarajevo 1878–1918
The lecture “Between Science and Heritage: The Movable Heritage of the Faculty of Natural Sciences and Mathematics” explores the issues of identifying, assessing, safeguarding, and interpreting movable heritage within educational and public institutions in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Through an analysis of laboratory instruments, teaching equipment, and institutional furnishings, the lecture examines their documentary, historical, technical, and museological significance as material traces of scientific practice and institutional memory. The lecture also addresses the status of movable heritage within existing institutional and legal frameworks for heritage protection, with particular emphasis on the challenges posed by the insufficient inventorying, documentation, and evaluation of objects that remain in active use. Furthermore, it highlights the need for a broader understanding of cultural heritage, within which laboratory instruments and institutional furnishings would be recognized as an important component of the scientific, educational, and cultural history of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Dr. Mirha Šabanović was born in Sarajevo, where she completed her studies in Art History and Comparative Literature at the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Sarajevo. She earned her PhD from the Department of Art History at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb. Since 2007, she has been employed at the Cantonal Institute for the Protection of Cultural-Historical and Natural Heritage Sarajevo as an Advisor for the Protection of Monument Heritage. In this role, she has been continuously engaged in the research, evaluation, protection, and supervision of conservation and restoration projects related to cultural and historical heritage, with a particular focus on the architectural heritage of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, as well as monument and artistic heritage from various historical periods. She is the author and co-author of numerous professional, review, and scholarly publications in the fields of art history, architectural heritage, museology, and conservation practice.
The lecture “Between Science and Heritage: The Movable Heritage of the Faculty of Natural Sciences and Mathematics” is the 24th public lecture in the “Our Heritage” lecture series, launched by the Museum of Sarajevo two years ago with the aim of introducing the citizens of Sarajevo to the rich cultural and historical heritage of the capital of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
