9. September 2024. | News
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.
24. August 2024. | News
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.
24. August 2024. | News
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.
18. July 2024. | Discover
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.
15. July 2024. | News
The archaeological exhibition “Not Quite the Same, Not Quite Different” was created on the basis of the exhibition “Let Me Tell You a Story” of the Archaeological Museum in Zadar, which visited 20 cities throughout Croatia, Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Montenegro. In Serbia, she visited five museums, including the National Museum Kraljevo. From this cooperation, the idea arose that all the host museums together organize a regional exhibition that would unite the different funeral customs in the Roman provinces and show the richness of the common heritage.