The first information about damages to the buildings of Museum of Voivodina at Novi Sad
see also damages to regional museum of Leskovac

April 4, 1999 (Easter 1999)

Subject:

Information about Museum of Voivodina

The first information about damages of the buildings of Museum Voivodina at Novi Sad

The Museum of Voivodina's building - Dunavska 37 has been seriously damaged. Glass walls at the two floors, approximately 500m2 , and almost all windows and doors at three levels (300m2) were broken and crashed . Parts of the missiles fell at the permanent exhibition. One of the glass showcases is broken, few panels fell, one side of the wall is damaged. On the main side of the facade vitrage, the artistic work of Bosko Petrovic, famous academic painter, was seriously damaged. At the other Museum' s building in the Dunavska 35, more than 20 big windows (200m2) were broken. There were no major damages of the museum's items. The most important items were relocated to a safer place earlier.
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Date sent: Tue, 6 Apr 1999 12:26:12 +0200 (MET DST)
From: Jadran Kale br> To: securma@XS4ALL.NL
Subject:

Museum of Vojvodina alert

Dear Mr. Ton Cremers,
thank you for your forwarded message concerning Museum of Voyvodina at April 5th 1999. I strongly protest after your action of putting the message and photos from Novi Sad and the Museum mentioned under "Vukovar" web-page and address of your valuable organisation.
The page concerned is http://www.museum-security.org/vukovar.html
Just a brief reminder: the artifacts from Vukovar City Museum were stolen and transported to the Museum of Voyvodina in Novi Sad, under control of its curators, after the fall of the besieged city in Nov. 1991.
Those artifacts are not returned to Croatia and the rightfull owner in Vukovar City Museum yet. This Museum is recovered and could be accessed at the Web: http://www.muzej-vukovar.hr/
Please, do not locate the needed information under the page named after the unsatisfied victim.
My message is written from the Museum attacked directly from the Yugoslav Navy, with triple hits at its permanent exhibition space, with any military target widely absent, and at the same time as the cathedral nearby (9/91). There were no message or support from our Yugoslav colleagues up to this date.
Disclaimer: this is not an official message, but a personal one . Also, the point is not about appropriateness of targeting the Museums. Horror! I regret their broken glasses. Just, check your informations and, please, behave with dignity, if the "Vukovar" name is to be lined in address.
I shall be grateful if you diseminate this message in the same way as you did with the previous one, from Novi Sad.
Yours sincerely,
Jadran Kale------------------------
Zupanijski muzej, HR-22000 Sibenik
Croatia:385(0)22/213-880,fax213-355
http://pubwww.srce.hr/muzej_sibenik
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+++++++moderator's reply+++++++
The information about damages to the Museum in Novi Sad no longer is available at: http://www.museum-security.org/vukovar.html but at http://www.museum-security.org/novisad.html
The above letter has been added to the text on the novisad.html page. There absolutely was no intent to hurt anybody's feelings or express a personal standpoint when I named the page with images 'vukovar.html' ,nor did I intend to open wounds that need to be cured as quickly as possible.
Whatever damage done to museums and libraries (which is a lot more then many of us seem to realize: see: http://www.museum-security.org/bosnie.html) it is all of minor importance compared to the agony of refugees and the killing of innocent citizens.
Ton Cremers