The Serbian government has decided to Historical Museum of Serbia change its name to the Serbian Historical Museum.
This decision was made at the session on September 3, and was signed by Prime Minister Đuro Macut.
The Tanjug Agency, which published this information tonight (September 5), did not provide an explanation as to why the Government did this, so it is very likely that there was no explanation.
In the decision, the word "Crpski" was written by mistake - apparently there was a doubt as to whether the name of the Serbian Historical Museum should be written in Cyrillic, so it was abandoned. However, social networks interpreted it differently. one of the comments is "that's when you never enter a museum in your life, but you want to change its name".
Previous renames
The Government of Serbia has already made such decisions, changed the names of certain sports associations, so it seems that it has now started to make such changes in culture as well.
Let's remember: the associations of water polo, handball and boxing are no longer Serbian associations, but Serbian. It was also reported that the Olympic Committee of Serbia voted to change its name to the Serbian Olympic Committee.
Where is the difference?
What is the difference between the Historical Museum of Serbia and the Serbian Historical Museum?
Due to the renaming of sports associations, an attempt was made to answer this question in public. Among the opinions and attitudes, the following was also heard:
First, the name means that it is a museum that preserves the history of Serbia, the country, and the second name means that it preserves the history of the Serbian nation, meaning all Serbs in the world. It goes without saying that the local government, which propagates the Serbian world, is a name with a possessive adjective.
What is the rule?
The rule is that institutions are named after the state and not after the nation. The Army of the Kingdom of Serbia was called the Serbian Army a few decades ago in circles that do not belong to the state but to the national.
That trend has since been extended to surviving state institutions. Until now, it existed only in colloquial speech, and now it has been made official. The Minister of Culture, Nikola Selaković, recently spoke of Hall 1 of the Belgrade Fair as the Home of the Serbian Opera even though we do not have a Serbian Opera, which sounded like an announcement that the Opera of the National Theater will become - Serbian.
The decision of the Matsuto Government was published in yesterday's "Official Gazette" (September 4), which means that it will come into effect in eight days from then.
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