MUSEUMS AND GALLERIES

The National Museum in Leskovac, southern Serbia, was founded in 1948 to keep and present the cultural heritage of that part of the country. In its collections and depots, this museum has more than 33 thousand items, wile also taking care of several valuable facilities and archaeological localities.

Negotin is one of those beautiful towns on the Danube, in eastern Serbia, where one can found lot of landmarks, hence numerous reasons for tourists to visit it. The event “Days of Mokranjac”, which marks on January 9 the birth of famous composer Stevan Stojanovic Mokranjac, is a good opportunity to also visit the house in which the father of the Serbian music had spent his childhood.

Novi Bečej is a town on the river Tisa in Vojvodina, northern Serbia. Recently it has been famous for the Velikogospojinski dani festival, held in August, during the Assumption religious festival. Ironically, Novi Bečej (novi meaning new in Serbian) is older than its neighbouring town of Bečej. Every year, it hosts a colony of water colour artists. Novi Bečej has a very interesting history and numerous sights. Visitors can learn about part of that history in the town’s museum, which is called Glavaš’s house.

The Museum of Textile Industry in Strojkovac near Leskovac is housed in a former mill, where back in 1884 the first cord factory was open which is considered the beginning of the textile industry in Serbia. It is the only museum of its kind in the country. Opened in 1954, reconstructed in 1984, and now, almost three decades later, another reconstruction is underway that will restore the old glory and the former, traditional way of cord production - by a water-powered mechanism.

The year 2012 marks 130 years since the founding of the City Museum in Vrsac. The Museum was founded in 1882 after Roman coins dating back to the fourth century AD and the era of Emperor Constantine were discovered in Veliki Rit near Vrsac. The first exhibition was staged in the elite Concordia building in 1896. Today, the Museum owns more than 280,000 artifacts, most of which can be seen in the Pharmacy on the Stairs, the building which is a cultural monument.

The story of bread has come to life in Serbia few decades ago, in the Museum of Bread in the village of Pecinci, in the province of Vojvodina.

In eastern Serbia, 8km far from the town of Knjaževac, there is an archaeological site - Timacum Minus, a Roman settlement from the 1st century AD. It was built as a military camp, intended for Roman legionaries, and, two centuries later, it became a fortification with towers from which the roads for Mediana and Felix Romuliana – the respective residences of Roman emperors Constantine the Great and Galerius – were defended.

The Zlatni breg (Golden Hill) villa in Smederevo, a town on The Danube, in eastern Serbia, better known as Kraljev vinograd (The Royal Vineyards), a one-time summer residence of the Obrenovic royal dynasty, is situated in the most beautiful part of the town, on a hill turned northwards, towards The Danube and the Banat plains.

The Museum of Yugoslav History is one of the youngest cultural institutions in Serbia, and following the Belgrade Fortress, most visited tourist location in Belgrade. It was founded in 1996, by merging the Museum of Revolution and the Memorial Center Josip Broz Tito, which includes the Museum 25 May, Old Museum and the House of Flowers.

With the decree of then Minister of Culture, writer Jovan Sterija Popovic, on May 10, 1844, the National Museum was founded, and all these decades it has been committed to the protection, preservation and promotion of the rich cultural heritage of Serbia. The time when this institution was established was also the early era of institutional and systematic protection of the cultural achievements in Serbia, the care of mobile and immobile legacy.