Acting Director

Marija Zhivachki

Graduate historian archivist

Work experience:

December 2008 employed at the National Institution Museum – Kumanovo as a curator historian;

May 2019 position – senior curator historian;

2014 – 2018, member of the Board of Directors of the National Institution Museum – Kumanovo;

Member of the editorial board of the magazine "Museum Messenger";

June 2024 – curator advisor historian;

Professional experience:

Museum activity

Research:

– 2010, participation in research on Islamic sacred architecture (Dl’ga);

– 2015 – 2017, participation in research and insight into the condition of historical monuments and memorials from the National Liberation War and the Revolution in Kumanovo and the Kumanovo region (Malotino, Ramno, Pelince, Žegljane, Arbanashko, Čelopek, Klečovce and Dobrošane);

– 2018, research First session of the ASNOM Assembly held in the village of Ramno, Kumanovo region;

– 2019, research by Hristijan Todorovski Karposh – Archives of Macedonia;

– 2021, ASNOM – research, Archives of Macedonia;

-2023, Pance Peshev - research, Archives of Macedonia, National Library of St. Clement of Ohrid, Museum of the City of Strumica

Exhibition activity:

– 2013, taking over the exhibition: "Balkan Wars" from the Archives of Macedonia;

– 2014, co-author of the exhibition "70 years of freedom in Kumanovo"

– 2015, author of the exhibition: “Weapons from the Ottoman period to the end of the Second World War”

– 2019, concept for an enriched museum exhibition prepared

– 2019-author of a renovated museum exhibition (history department) at the National University Museum – Kumanovo from all 4 periodical collections;

– 2018, a concept for the House Museum of the National Hero Hristijan Karposh was prepared;

– 2019, author of a renovated, reconceptualized and modernized permanent exhibition at the House-Museum of Hristijan Todorovski – Karposh;

– 2022, taking over the exhibition "Chento" from the Institute and Museum - Prilep;

-2024, author of the exhibition "National Liberation Struggle in Kumanovo 1941-1944"

Publishing activity::

– 2009, “The Life Path of Dragan Bogdanovski”, Museum Bulletin No. 10, National Museum – Kumanovo, Kumanovo, 145 – 154;

– 2012, “Kumanovo during the Vinica Affair”, Museum Bulletin No. 11, National Museum – Kumanovo, Kumanovo, 128 – 132;

– 2015, Weapons from the Ottoman Period to the End of World War II” (exhibition catalog);

– 2019, “The Seal of the Revolutionary Organization of the Kumanovo District”, Museum Bulletin No. 12, National Museum – Kumanovo, Kumanovo, 112 – 116;

– 2019, Karposh (bilingual catalog for a permanent exhibition at the Karposh House Museum);

– 2021, “100 years since the birth of Magdalena Antova”, Museum Bulletin No. 13, National Museum – Kumanovo, Kumanovo, 100 – 104;

– 2022, “First Macedonian Partisan Sewing Workshop in Kozjak, Kumanovo Region”, Museum Bulletin No. 14, National Museum – Kumanovo, Kumanovo, 115 – 119;

-2024, “National Liberation Struggle in Kumanovo 1941-1944” (catalog)

Audit, conservation and purchase of historical museum objects:

– 2018 – 2022, participation in the Commission for the Revision of Historical Subjects from all 4 periodical collections: National Revolutionary Movement, Between the Two World Wars, NOV, and Socialist Period;

– 2019 -2021, Project Manager "Conservation of Museum Objects from the Historical Department"

– 2021, Purchase of historical objects and museum items;

 Education:

 – participation in creative workshops for children;

– lectures on historical figures and commemoration of significant historical events in Kumanovo;

 Trainings:

– 2019 – Participation in Museum Interpretation training at the national level;

– 2020 - Participation in the EU project "Tourism contributing to cultural heritage in the border region of Bulgaria - Macedonia";

– 2022 – IPA Cultural Heritage Without Borders Program, Republic of Macedonia and Republic of Bulgaria;

-2023 – Participation in the Conference on Contemporary Museum Education.

  Awards:

– 2020, by MNK ICOM on the occasion of "May 18" – International Museum Day – Museum of the Year for 2019, for the modernization of the Permanent Exhibition in the House-Museum of the National Hero Hristijan Todorovski – Karposh;

Board of Directors

President of the Board of Directors:

Radovan Ilic

Members of the Board of Directors:

Simona Jakimovska

Ninko Velichkovski

Neda Mitkovska

Slavica Cvetanovska