Tomislav Šola

Who is Tomislav Šola?

Tomislav Sladojević Šola was born in Zagreb, Croatia in 1948. He is Professor at the University of Zagreb, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Department of Information and communication sciences, sub-department for Media and communication. He finished Art History and English Language in Zagreb, Museology in Zagreb and Paris. Tomislav Šola has had the practical experience as a curator, director, editor, lecturer, consultant, and served at different positions in the profession internationally. After seven years of curatorship and another seven as a director of Museum Documentation centre, Prof. Šola started his academic career. His main interests is practice of heritage and especially its theory, for which he coined terms “Heritology“ and, later on, “Mnemosophy” provocatively trying to suggest the integrity of heritage and the need for a strong, wide profession in the domain of public memory. The notion of Cybernetics as the core value of the theory as well as of practice of heritage, - is his proposal in books and many texts.