Guided Tour Through the Exhibition “Between the Trapeza and Sofra”

Guided tour through the exhibition “Between the Table and the Sofra. Metal Vessels from the 13th to the 19th Century in the Collections of the National Museum of Serbia” will be organized on Wednesday, April 2nd, Friday, April 4th, 2025, at 6 p.m. and Saturday, April 5th, 2025, at 11 a.m.

You will be guided through the entire exhibition, which includes metal vessels from a wide time span, from the Middle Ages through the Ottoman period to the formation of the modern Serbian state, which allows you to see an entire social process through the prism of socially highly valued objects, by Tatjana Mihailović, PhD, museum advisor at the National Museum Kraljevo, and art historian Jelena Marković.

The vessels range in a wide spectrum from those made of precious metals that were part of public feasts, as a ritual of the aristocratic class, to those used in Christian and Islamic cults, then everyday vessels for preparing and serving food, made of copper, bronze or brass, to specially made vessels for sprinkling water when bathing. All of them indirectly testify to the complex life of feudal and late feudal society, which practically reached the 19th century in its organization of life, habits and social values ​​in the vast Balkans.