Museum Night 2025. Museums – Visible and Invisible
On Friday, October 30, 2026, the Museum Night event was held, organized by the Municipal Heritage Museum of Vis. The evening began at 6:30 PM with an expert lecture by Sanja Buble, M.Sc., Dipl. Eng. Arch., titled British Fortifications of Vis Harbor. At 7:15 PM, the curators of Municipal Heritage Museum of the City of Vis, Mr. Vinko Udiljak and Mr. Goran Mladineo, presented the exhibition catalog Battle for Vis, created in collaboration with Mr. Anđelo Miklić. The 104-page catalog contains a wealth of texts, images, and interesting descriptions of artifacts, and was available at a promotional price to visitors, who showed significant interest in this period of Vis’s history.
At 8:00 PM, in the crowded courtyard of Batarija Fortress, the exhibition Battle for Vis – British-French Struggles for Supremacy 1805-1815 was officially opened. The exhibition was opened by the Mayor of the City of Vis, Mr. Hrvoje Mratinić. A total of 150 visitors to the exhibition were able to enjoy a multitude of previously unpublished artifacts from Vis’s history, including weapons, everyday objects, maps and archival materials, memorabilia, and artistic depictions. The exhibition was realized in collaboration with Vis collector of Adriatic maritime and military history, Mr. Anđelo Miklić, the Croatian Maritime Museum in Split, the Croatian Conservation Institute – Department for Underwater Archaeology, and Ms. Tatjana Gertik and Mr. Andrew Scott, who donated two important items presented at the exhibition to the museum. The exhibition was co-financed by the City of Vis and the Tourist Board of the City of Vis.
Museum Night 2025. Museums – Visible and Invisible
On Friday, January 31, 2025, Museum Night was held, organized by Municipal Heritage Museum of Vis. An open day titled Unearth Your Heritage was held at the Kanarija archaeological site, attended by kindergarten children from Komiža, elementary school students from Vis and Komiža, and high school students from Antun Matijašević Karamaneo High School with their teachers. Using an archaeological trench as an example, about a hundred visitors learned about the excavation process of an archaeological site, valuable finds, and gained information about the newly excavated part of ancient Issa.
At 6:00 PM, in the Croatian Home building, the director of Municipal Heritage Museum of Vis, Dr. Dinko Radić, held a lecture titled Vis Before Issa – When You Could Walk to Split, in which the audience could learn how people lived on the island 10,000 years ago, and even earlier when Vis was connected to the mainland; what they ate, where they lived, what tools they used, and how they survived, as well as numerous other aspects of daily life. At 7:00 PM, museum curators Goran Pavao Mladineo and Vinko Udiljak held a lecture What Vis Attics, Cellars, Dining Rooms… and the Wellington Depot Hide, in which they presented methods of acquiring museum materials and raised public awareness about the importance of preserving Vis’s heritage, inviting citizens to cooperate in order to valorize valuable, but often irretrievably lost, materials. After the presentation, at 8:00 PM, the documentary film Vis – The Emergence of Aphrodite (1989) was shown.
