Monuments in Montenegro with a review of normative and institutional protection Cover Image

Spomen-obilježja u Crnoj Gori s osvrtom na normativnu i institucionalnu zaštitu
Monuments in Montenegro with a review of normative and institutional protection

Author(s): Dušan Medin, Dobrila Vlahović
Subject(s): Law, Constitution, Jurisprudence, Museology & Heritage Studies, Tourism, Politics of History/Memory
Published by: HESPERIAedu
Keywords: monuments; cultural property; memorial-object; memorial cultural heritage; marking the memories; politics of memory; Law on Protection of Cultural Property; Law on Monuments; State of Montenegro;

Summary/Abstract: Along with placing monuments in public spaces, its official culture of social community’s memory was being built, encouraged by those who initiated the activities, who enabled and performed them. Hence, the purpose of this paper is to offer a review of the memorials, or the most recognizable and the most numerous segment of the memorial cultural heritage of Montenegro. It will be done from the perspective of the current national legislative that regulates the field in question, considering that this type of heritage is subjected to the provisions of two laws: the Law on Monuments (2008) and the Law on Protection of Cultural Property (2010). Related to that, these monuments can posses status of the memorials or the status of the cultural property provided by law, from which their further legal and institutional treatment and protection depends.

  • Issue Year: 2019
  • Issue No: 1-2
  • Page Range: 131-147
  • Page Count: 17
  • Language: Croatian