The guest exhibition "The Radimir Family - the contribution of family members to the seafaring of Dobrota and Boka Kotorska" will be opened in the premises of the ethnographic collection of the JU Museum and Gallery Tivat today at 19 p.m.
By decision of the Ministry of Culture of Montenegro from 2017, the Radimir Collection, which was preserved by this old Dobrot family, received the status of movable cultural property of local and national importance. All items in the Collection are the heritage of the immediate and extended Radimir family and, as such, represent the cultural heritage of this region. The rich collection, by the way, has been available to the public during the summer months in the 18th-century family church of St. Mihovil in Dobrota, which was restored about fifteen years ago by the owners of the collection, the brothers Vjeko and Zoran Radimir.
The Radimir brotherhood was the most numerous naval brotherhood in Dobrota. As many as 226 sailors gave, of which 110 were captains. During the 18th century, this family owned or co-owned with other well-known maritime families from Bokele, as many as 44 ships, of which 16 were large tartans and four pulakas, while in the first half of the 19th century the Radimiri had a fleet of 39 sailing ships (two barques, 16 brigatnins, 11 brigs, two piulakas and one schooner or trabacula each).
The exhibition at the Tivat Museum and Gallery will present topics from the field of seafaring, related to the contribution of members of the Radimir family to the overall seafaring of Dobrota and Boka Kotorska. The curator of the ethnographic collection, Igor Lazarevic, and the author of the exhibition, Zoran Radimir, will speak at the opening.
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