The former school building in Rača near Bajina Bašta will become the Cyrillic Museum. The RINA portal reports that work on the complete reconstruction of the building was completed in December, in order to adapt it to its future purpose.
Siniša Spasojević, the initiator and manager of this project, explains to "Vreme" that Rača is the right place for such a museum.
"The project is based on the story of the copyist school in the Rača monastery during the Ottoman period, when the largest number of copyist monks resided there and, copying them, preserved a large number of valuable medieval books." Kiprijan Račanin, who compiled the Primer of Slavic Letters in 1717 and created the first rules of Serbian versification, is famous.
Siniša Spasojević reminds that during the Second World War, the "Miroslav's Gospel", the manuscript of the most beautiful Serbian Cyrillic script, was hidden in the Rač monastery, which is "also the reason why we created this museum".
He announces that the future exhibition of the museum will include "the entire history of the Cyrillic alphabet, in which the emphasis will be precisely on the tradition of the copying school, we plan to have a special space in the museum to talk about it." "Professors and academics from the National Council for Culture will be consulted about everything," he says.
The money for the Cyrillic Museum, 17 million dinars, was obtained at the competition of the Ministry of Culture "Cities in focus", Spasojević says that the project documentation for the second phase of the works is already ready and that the Municipality of Bajina Bašta also applied for the continuation, "in order to build this year an amphitheater, a theme park with information boards and how to get the necessary equipment for the Museum".
"We are planning that the display will be adapted to the needs of modern visitors as much as possible and that, with the use of the latest technologies, the Cyrillic Museum will be next to a cultural institution, with special programs aimed at children and young people," says Siniša Spasojević.
