Unique live museum

Istria County

Istria County


During the summer months nearly all Istrian museums, especially their atriums, become attractive stages and venues for concert, theater and film events.

Unique live museum

During the summer months nearly all Istrian museums, especially their atriums, become attractive stages and venues for concert, theater and film events. Umag's Sepomaia Viva presents a unique live museum in Istria. This two-day international festival of Antiquity is held in honor of the archaeological site not far from Umag, ancient Sepomaia, with ruins of a rustic villa dating back to the 1st - 4th centuries AD. Ever since 2002, on the first Monday in August this festival revives the ancient tradition of Istria in Umag's main square Trg slobode, Nova obala and Umag Town Museum. Devotees of Roman times are dressed according to the ancient dress code. So, ancient Rome is everywhere, from clothing to hairstyles, and in festival workshops you can also learn how to immerse into fashion history. It is a chance to meet legionaries and gladiators, whereas the performances of gladiator fights and antique dancers fill the town streets with the spirit of ancient times. Ancient tastes and smells come alive, too. The fascinating delicacies are offered at the museum's Caupini apud Hilarem et Clovem – tavern Kod Radovana i Vjeke. Ancient painters and mosaic artists will teach you ancient crafts, and souvenirs and replicas of ancient jewelry can be purchased at the museum marketplace – mercatura.  Rovinj's Eco-museum the House of Batana/Casa della batana is the first museum on the Mediterranean dedicated to a fishing boat. It is a true small museum gem telling the interactive story about Rovinj's traditional vessel called batana. The House of Batana also has a special offer for its visitors located outside the museum: batana ride from the museum to Spacio Matika, traditional local tavern, accompanied with seafood dinner and music program.

 
The Archaeological Museum of Istria in Pula attractively and skillfully combines modern artistic experience and archaeological heritage in the representative Museum-Gallery “Sacred Hearts” that opened in 2011. Excellent jazz concerts, multimedia exhibitions and installations, as well as archaeological exhibitions are organized all year round. Since 2010, for several days at the end of August, Novigrad's Lapidarium Museum steps out into the town streets, squares and parks by organizing Arterija – festival of visual arts. Arterija is characterized by the presentation of contemporary art outside the museum-gallery establishment. Lively images, multimedia events and artistic activities, projections, exhibitions, performances during the festival altogether enrich the cultural heritage of Novigrad. 

 

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