For the 4th time the museum is the organizer of The days of wooden shipbuilding. The event will be open on August 3 with the exhibition Island Visions by the author Ana Troskot Bajić. Ana, in her own words – a self-styled, free-styled artist, will show us her vision of the island Murter through beautiful sculptures of island’s scenes. Maritime Historian, and by recent – Doctor of Science, Zrinka Podhraški Čizmek, will present a valuable work of the Croatian Maritime Regesta in the 18th Century – Sailing on the Adriatic. The author continues the work of her grandfather, Nikola Čolak, in the fifties of the 20th century, and deals with over 4000 documents about our history, captains, ships, merchants, stories and events throughout the 18th century. The book is actually the…
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Summer in the Museum 2018
We switched to our summer mode ⛵☀️ Visit us in July and August from 10am to 10pm every day! There are interesting events in our museum. We have two exhibitions this summer. The first of them, Ante Brkan’s photo exhibition, is actually introducing the summer schedule. The exhibition is executed in collaboration with the Gallery of Fine Arts of the National Museum in Zadar and Betina Museum of Wooden Shipbuilding joins the 100th Anniversary of the birth of photographer Ante Brkan. The creation of our museum’s permanent exhibition was made possible thanks to the photographs owned by Betina Shipyard that the author had taken during his three visits to Betina in the middle of the past century. These photographs complete the narration of the history of shipbuilding in…
EXHIBITION: BRKAN & BETINA
Brkan & Betina – Photography Exhibition from the Collection of the Gallery of Fine Arts of the National Museum in Zadar, provides an insight into Ante Brkan’s impressions of Betina, captured during his three visits to the town in the second half of the 1950s. Besides the photographs depicting the landscapes of the town, residential, sacral and public architecture, and portraits of its citizens, this exhibition includes rather valuable shots testifying about the importance of shipbuilding in Betina in the middle of the last century, and those who contributed to the creation of that heritage as well. Ante Brkan (1918-2004) was a multi-award winning photographer from Zadar, one of the founders of the international photography exhibition ”Man and the Sea” (together with his brother Zvonimir),…
Making of “ogrica” – workshop
On Friday the 02nd, as part of our educational and creative program, a workshop will be held where we’ll learn how to make one specific and recognizable, traditional decoration of folk costumes typical for some villages in Šibenik region – Ogrica. Older women from the village say they were worn by their grandmothers too. Ogrica can be made by placing pearls directly onto the fabric which is prepared before this phase and then you create a motif – mostly floral or geometrical. There is also a method when you first crochet the surface with a simple pattern on which you’ll insert your pearls, or, with knitting needles where after the first row is knitted, the second you start by inserting pearls with other needles, and…
Night of the Museums 2018
Our 3rd Night of the Museums is focused on the history of sports in our little village in the second half of the past century until present time. There are 5 different sport clubs in Betina that we chose to present to visitors through our exhibition and a couple of presentations. There is lot to discover about Betina water polo which is probably the most popular and recognizable sport activity in Betina, as well as sailing, but there is also a period of time during early 80’s when kids from the island practised yudo (!). Islanders also love boćanje which is a local, traditional game similar to bowling and of course, the inevitable football. Find out more and visit our Museum on the Night of the…
August, 11 – 14th: Days of Small Wooden Shipbuilding in Betina
In the upcoming week, starting from the 11th, Betina will host the 2nd annual event of Small Wooden Shipbuilding Days. Our desire with this programme is to point out the values small wooden shipbuilding has in our maritime heritage, with the special highlight put on the wooden shipbuilding tradition in Betina. We have prepared interesting lectures, exhibitions and workshops both for kids and the adults. We are especially looking forward to a Review of Traditional Wooden Ships that will take place in Betina harbor on Saturday, the 13th of August. August 14th is also the anniversary date of the opening of our Museum, and with a traditional sailing regatta “For the Body and Soul”, on the fourth day of the event, we will end this year’s programme of Small Wooden Shipbuilding Days in Betina.
Saturday, the 23rd of July: Themes and colours of Betina, workshop
Saturday is again perfect day for creativity! Join us and let’s draw and paint some typical themes of Betina while we walk the streets together: traditional window shutters, rooftops, church with its bell tower, boats, whatever you find inspiring… Location: Betina Museum Time: 19:30 Walking arround we’ll find an inspiration that will help us do our sketches. We’ll finish and paint them outside the Museum. After we’re done we’ll upload them on our Facebook page!
July 20th: Klapa Mela
We’re inviting you all to a concert that will be held in front of the Museum on a Wednesday evening starting at 21:00. Join us in a relaxing atmosphere enjoying authentic Dalmatian music with women’s vocal ensemble – Klapa Mela from Murter!
Summer programme in our Museum
For our guests and friends we have prepared a summer programme. There are workshops for children and grown-ups, concerts in a beautiful ambience outside the Museum walls… Educating and interesting lectures and presentations on traditional shipbuilding are to be expected in the Days of Wooden Shipbuilding. We’ll also have the Exhibition of postal stamps with traditional wooden boats’ themes and a big Review of traditional wooden ships built or repaired in Betina shipyards. There will be a celebrating programme for our anniversary on the 14th of August followed by a well-known Regata for Body and Soul (Regata za dušu i tilo) organized by the Betina Gajeta 1740 Association. Figs from Betina fields (Betinsko poje) will be picked and dried in a traditional way at the…