摘要：The Korčula Town Museum is preparing the concept proposal for founding the Petar Šegedin (Žrnovo, 1909 - Zagreb, 1998) memorial collection in view of the signiÞ cance of this academician for the overall development of Croatian culture and cultural institutions. The first Days of Petar Šegedin were held during September 2005 in Žrnovo on Korčula and in Orebić with the participation of leading state cultural institutions: HAZU, the Croatian Cultural Institution, the “Miroslav Krleža”Lexicographic Institute and the Croatian Writers’ Society, and this was a further incentive for the professionals at the Korčula Town Museum to think about founding the collection. Šegedin’s work demands continuous and organised care that would promote the collection, identification, preservation and documentation of manuscripts and personal belongings, all published works and relevant literary reviews, as well as material that Šegedin collected in many European cities. One segment that cannot be overlooked is the literary world that has its roots in the Mediterranean, preserved in its archaic materialisation, described in the Þ rst contemporary Croatian novel “Children of God” (Zagreb, 1946), as well as in a line of masterly short stories. This literary world opens up the possibility of a multi-layered insight into all segments of the rural island heritage, preserving in a special way elements of verbal and nonverbal communication, many elements of the intangible heritage that is disappearing forever under growing pressure.
