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According to the classification of museum objects, the National Museum in Kraljevo belongs to museums of complex type and contains 6 collections: for natural history, archeology, numismatics, ethnology, history and art around which departments of the same name were formed, as well as departments for conservation, documentation, pedagogical and propaganda work and professional library. According to the territorial classification, the regional museum is responsible for three municipalities: Kraljevo, Raška and Vrnjačka Banja.
Permanent Exhibition
The permanent exhibition includes the complete first floor of the museum building with four halls and corridors along both wings of the building. The Permanent Exhibition of the National Museum Kraljevo, which provides an insight into the past and heritage of Kraljevo, Raška, Vrnjačka Banja and their surroundings, seen through archeology, history, numismatics, ethnology and art, was opened to the public for the first time May 16, 2008.
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Trg Svetog Save 2, Kraljevo
Inspired by Italy
Inspired by Italy
The exhibition is dedicated to Serbian-Italian cultural and artistic ties, that is, to Serbian artists who found role models and incentives for their creativity in the artistic tradition of Italy. The Italian "experiences" of Serbian artists during the 19th and 20th centuries are visually represented by the selection of works of art from the collection of the Gallery of Matica Srpska.
Cities: A Certain View
Cities: A Certain View
The thematic backbone of the exhibition is represented by the presentation of the city as a key place where modern culture and art began and developed dramatically and rapidly, first at the transition from the 18th to the 19th and then from the 19th to the 20th century. In fine art from the 17th century, the motif of the city was represented to the greatest extent in printed graphics, whether it was individual prints or graphic maps with topographic representations of different places.
Thematic Guidance “Copying the Old Masters” Through the Exhibition “Inspired by Italy”
Thematic Guidance “Copying the Old Masters” Through the Exhibition “Inspired by Italy”
The thematic guidance through the exhibition “Inspired Italy” of the Gallery of Matica Srpska, refers to the topic “Copying the Old Masters”. Art historian Jelena Marković will guide you through the part of the exhibition that relates to the tradition of copying as an important approach for transferring style, knowledge and artistic values from generation to generation
Paolo Sorentino: Universal Language of Art
Paolo Sorentino: Universal Language of Art
How the film director and screenwriter Paolo Sorrentino uses art as a powerful tool for shaping the film story, and what is baroque in his ideas and constructing the narrative, find out during the lecture by Nikola Ivanović, MA, art historian and curator of the Gallery of Matica Srpska.
Thematic Guidance “Metamorphoses of Cities” Through the Exhibition “Cities: A Certain View”
Thematic Guidance “Metamorphoses of Cities” Through the Exhibition “Cities: A Certain View”
Thematic guidance through the exhibition “Cities: A Certain View. From the Collection of Graphics by Foreign Authors of the National Museum of Serbia” refers to the topic “Metamorphosis of Cities”. Art historian Jelena Marković will guide you through the story of the comprehensive transformation of cities, which has been recorded in works of art.
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Lecture by Snežana Mišić “La Grande Belezza: Journal from Italy of Uroš Predić“ Held
During his trip through Italy, which took place from April 8th to May 13th, 1909, Uroš Predić kept a diary, in which he described in detail the places, churches, monuments and works of art that he visited on that occasion. The diary has 143 pages and has not been published to this day, and as an original manuscript it is kept in the Uroš Predić Legacy at the National Museum in Zrenjanin.
Scientific Conference “Publications in the Development of Society and State IV: Public Word of Public Figures” Opened
Scientific meeting held in the National Museum Kraljevo, August 17th-18th, 2024, as part of the Žica Spiritual Assembly “Transfiguration 2024”. This is the fourth scientific meeting dedicated to the topic “Publications in the Development of Society and State IV: Public Word of Public Figures” organized by the National Museum Kraljevo in cooperation with the Faculty of Law of the University of Belgrade and the Institute for Political Studies in Belgrade. During two days, four sessions were held at which 14 papers were presented by seventeen authors.
Žiča Spiritual Assembly “Transfiguration 2024” Opened
The thirty-third traditional event was officially opened in the Gallery of the National Museum Kraljevo, on Wednesday, August 16th, 2024, starting at 8 p.m. The event was opened by Predrag Terzić, PhD, mayor of Kraljevo, while Darko Gučnin, director of the National Museum Kraljevo, addressed the audience in front of the host and organizers. The exhibition “Cities: A Certain View. From the Collection of Graphics by Foreign Authors of the National Museum of Serbia” was opened by Bojana Borić Brešković, MA, director of the National Museum of Serbia. The exhibition “Inspired by Italy” was opened by Snežana Mišić, PhD, deputy director of Gallery of Matica Srpska in Novi Sad.
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Hidden Portrait of Tsar Nicholas II Romanov in the Church of Saint Sava in the Žiča Monastery
In 1935, the chapel of Saint Sava together with the dining room, according to the project of academician Aleksandar Deroko. The Russian painter Nikolai Baron Mayendorff painted the church in 1937, and on that occasion a representative portrait of the Russian Tsar Nicholas II Romanov, who was brutally murdered by the Bolsheviks, was executed. After World War II and the victory of the revolutionary authorities, the church of Saint Sava in Žiča was closed to the public, and the nuns covered the emperor’s portrait with blue paper, and over time he sank into oblivion.
130 Years Since the Birth of Vasa Pomorišac
On this day, December 15th, 1893, Vasa Pomorišac was born, painter, professor, critic, illustrator and the first Serbian trained stained glass artist. This artist-craftsman was attached to the Byzantine and Serbian past, whose spiritual reflections he drowned in his works, guided by the idea of art as a phenomenon inseparable from society and tradition.
40 Years Since the Death of Mihailo S. Petrov
On this day, November 15th, 1983, Mihailo Petrov, a Serbian graphic artist, painter, illustrator, poet and critic, died. The artist, who left behind a rich painting oeuvre, but also with many years of commitment earned graphics a place of equal artistic discipline as the first professor in this field.
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Natural History Collection
Archaeological Collection
Numismatic Collection
Historical Collection
Ethnological Collection
Art Collection
