Paper short abstract:

Paper discuss usage of nominated World Heritage Site, with start point in Inauguration of Museum of AVNOJ in city of Jajce, held in November 2008. Ethnography sheds light on the dynamics between four different levels in the production of meaning: local, national, regional and the international.

Paper long abstract:

My intention in this paper is to discuss how community functioning awaiting inclusion on UNESCO´s World Heritage List. I am concerned with the importance of remembering, usage and understanding of the monumental heritage.

With focus on creation, representation, usage and practice of heritage sites, I aim to address both historical and present relevance of the Museum of Avnoj in Jajce phenomena and in a comparative perspective: how is it used today, from whom, in what ways and for which purposes? This in order to examine how memory, perceptions and creation of cultural heritage change and how it is opening up new horizons of understanding problematic of post-war time, generally speaking, and new venues of phenomena called world heritage site development, particularly.

With the new politicization of the country and the region that was to take place in the 1990s, and with a post-war nomination process of Jajce to the UNESCO´s World Heritage List, began a new era of memory interpretations, site politicization and de-politicization.

Keywords: Commemoration, remembering, (ab)use of monumental heritage, politics of heritage and democratization of history.