Территория заливов как перекрестки исторического и культурного взаимодействия народов Юго-Восточной Балтики: от истории к современности

Abstract

This article focuses on the project which is called “Crossroads – Lagoons territory: cultural and historical crossroads of the South-East Baltic” that was realized with the financial support of the EU within the Neighborhood Program of Lithuania-Poland - the Kaliningrad Region of the RF in 2007-2015. The project united together 13 participants from three different countries. In the last three years (the second stage of the project) partners have jointly organized 39 events. First of all, it involved inventorying count of cultural and historical monuments. The staff of our museum examined 824 objects of historical and cultural heritage. The obtained photographs served as a basis for creating an exhibition “Coastal Cultural Landscape”. The exhibition was supplemented approximately with 120 items that were found in the archeological expeditions of this project. The second exhibition “Lagoons Territory as Crossroads of Cultures” unveiled the work of skansens (open air ethnographic museums). The central position was given to the Museum of Ancient Sambia of the Viking Age that is located on territory of National Park “Curonian Spit” and experience of its creation within the project. Events of the project included an international festival of historic reenactment and ancient music of the Viking Age and Days of Crafts that have become annual. For the purpose of tourism development of new transborder tours were developed and tried out; the tutorial «Natural, Historical and Cultural crossroads of Baltic» for guides and interpreters was developed and published; trainings were held; a trilateral agreement on reciprocal recognition of documents certifying the accreditation of guide-interpreters was signed. The project was successfully accomplished due to publication projects. There were published: «Catalogue of natural, historical and cultural heritage objects of Lithuania, Poland, Russia cross-border area that are adjacent to Curonian and Vistula Lagoon»; «Traditions of peoples who inhabited the area around Curonian and Vistula lagoons»; «Tales, Myths and Legends of Ancient Prussia»; «Peoples of the South-Eastern Baltic in the Viking Age» and other materials.

О трансграничном сотрудничестве в сфере сохранения, развития и продвижения устойчивого использования исторического и культурного наследия территорий заливов Балтийского моря.