Archival Records Related to Cultural Heritage in the Croatian Memorial Documentation Center of the Homeland War

Abstract

Amid war and occurring natural disasters such as earthquakes and floods, protecting and preserving cultural heritage as well as records related to it is of the most significant importance. The Ministry of Culture and Media of the Republic of Croatia has recognized the importance of the preservation of national cultural heritage leading the project “E-culture – digitization of cultural heritage“. The Croatian Memorial Documentation Centre of the Homeland War also aspires to join and participate in the project. Besides records of the military and civil institutions related to the Homeland War, the Croatian Memorial Documentation Center of the Homeland War aims to include documents on broader areas of activities from the Homeland War and related to the War in its collections. Accordingly, one of the most important collections is the one with archives of records related to the Croatian cultural heritage in Homeland War. The aim of the paper is to describe the quantity, characteristics and contents of the archive records related to the Croatian cultural heritage destroyed during the Homeland War in Croatia that is stored in the Croatian Memorial Documentation Center of the Homeland War.