Sunčica Mustač

Sunčica Mustač was born in Zagreb, where she completed elementary school, language high school, and finally art history and German studies at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences. After several years at the same university, she earned an MA and enrolled in PhD studies. Since 2002, she has been living and working in Pula as a consultant in the Conservation Department of the Ministry of Culture and Media, where she mostly informs people how to restore their houses in historical complexes. Sometimes she researches and restores medieval sites, of which he writes expert and scientific papers. This hobby brings her many opportunities to collaborate on scientific projects managed by the University of Zagreb, and she is also involved in the projects of the Croatian Science Foundation. Since 2017, she has been working as the head of the House of Frescoes in Draguć, a department of the Historical and Maritime Museum of Istria in Pula, and since 2021 she has been teaching the conservation of archaeological monuments at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in the same city. With her Zagreb faculty colleagues, she continues to write papers on the subject of the Middle Ages in Istria and the conservation of cultural monuments, and with her colleagues in the museum she prepares exhibitions and catalogues on various topics. She cooperates with experts outside the mentioned institutions, mostly with prof. Ivan Matejčić, with whom wrote and edited the books in the Umjetnička baština istarske crkve edition and on the catalogue units of the online cultural heritage database Patrimonio Culturale Istriano.