Yugoslav President Josip Broz Tito’s death mask was made in the first few hours after his death on May 4, 1980. The plaster cast of the President’s face was made using a classical sculpture procedure at the premises of the University Clinical Center in Ljubljana, where Tito was hospitalized from the beginning of 1980. His remains were transported to the capital, Belgrade, where large crowds of citizens and over 200 high profile and politically diverse delegations and individuals bade him farewell.
Date: 1980
Material: plaster
Dimensions: 37 x 18.5 cm
Inventory number: 745:LJU; KI-163
On display: a copy of the mask is on display at the permanent exhibition Slovenes in XX. century
