TEAM

Zagreb City Museum, Croatia

After excavation - processing, interpretation and publication of archaeological finds from ancient times and interpretation of the process of iron production in antiquity in order to define the role of the early iron production. Processing of the finds from the site Okuje related to the early production of iron for the purpose of the comparative analysis with new findings from the area of the Drava River Valley. Defining the impact and the distribution of goods, as well as of the semi-finished and finished products, in the context of the regional, and the wider Central European context in the Antiquity. The organization of the exhibition at the Zagreb City Museum and co-organizing various educational activities (lectures and workshops as part of exhibition hosting or the primary exhibition). Time dedicated to the project: 20%. 

Curriculum vitae

Aleksandra Bugar was born on je 21st May 1970 in Zagreb. She graduated from the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences of the University in Zagreb with MA in Art History and Archaeology in 2000. During her studies she participated in several archaeological excavations and wrote her thesis on ‘Early Roman Pottery from the Sv. Križ - Sisak Area’ (mentor: M. Sanader, PhD). As part of her studies she participated in motorway construction research in the Republic of Slovenia for five years (in the locality of Nova Tabla in 2000 and 2001, for the Faculty of Arts in Ljubljana, in the localities of Ribnica and Ribnica P 391 -P 398, from 2001 to 2004 and Čatež Sv. Jurij in 2003 for the Institute for the Protection of Cultural Heritage in Slovenia, Novo Mesto Organisational Unit). As an associate of the Zagreb City Museum and Assistant Head of Research she participated in the excavations of the site St. Mark’s Square in Zagreb between 2005 and 2006, as well as the geodetic/archaeological documentation at  Park Grič and the Vranicanijeva poljana. In 2006 she participated in research sites at Velika Gorica - jug (for Kaducej d.o.o. (Ltd.)).

She has been employed by the Zagreb City Museum since 2006, becoming a Curator in 2007 and Head Curator in 2013. Since 2012 she has been the Manager of the Antique Collection.

She was Head of Research in the localities of Šepkovčic (from 2006 to 2008 at a multi-layered site from Pre-history, Antiquity and the Middle Ages), Okuje (from 2008 to 2010 at a multi-layered site from Pre-history, the Middle Ages and the Modern Age) and Mraclinska Dubrava (2008, Modern Age) for the Zagreb - Sisak Motorway. She has also collaborated on research and field survey projects for the Zagreb City Museum (Remete, Budinjak and Gornje Obrežje).

She was  a co-creator of two exhibitions at the Zagreb City Museum with the Museum advisor Boris Mašić (‘Respect our Traces’ in 2006 and ‘ In the Service of Archaeology’ in 2013), as well as assisting the implementation of numerous teaching programmes at the Zagreb City Museum.

Over the last five years she has been the expert advisor in four study exhibitions at the Zagreb City Museum:

• ‘Mors portae vitae – Death – The Gate of Life: Old Zagreb cemeteries and funerals’ in 2011,
• ‘On Turbulent Grounds - Archaeology and 725 Years of the Shrines in Remete’ in 2013,
• ‘City of Film - Dream Factory’ in 2014
• ‘Budinjak – the field of tumuli: archaeological investigations 1995-2014’ in 2016.

She enrolled in the post-graduate study in Archaeology at the University of Zagreb in 2009 and her thesis is entitled ‘Romanisation from the River Mura to the River Sava using the localities of Nova Tabla near Murska Sobota and Šepkovčica in Turpolje as Examples’ (mentored by Mitja Guštin, PhD).

She is  engaged in research of Antiquity and the Middle Ages. She is interested in the study of archaeometry and aspects of its application in archaeological interpretation.