Žiča Spiritual Assembly “Transfiguration 2025”

The Žica Spiritual Assembly “Transfiguration” is a significant cultural event that aims to nurture, study and affirm the values of our national culture. The Assembly program begins with a ceremonial opening at the National Museum in Kraljevo, where two exhibitions will be opened. The first is the visiting exhibition of the Museum in Smederevo “The Journey to the East of King Milan Obrenović: Pilgrimage and the Culture of the Orient at the Serbian Court”, which will be opened by the authors Snezana Cvetković, PhD, museum advisor of the Museum in Smederevo, and Dejan Vukelić, MA, technical advisor of the Institute of Mathematics of the Serbian Academy of Sciences in Belgrade. The second exhibition “Discrete Hero of Heritage: Milorad Miki Mihailović, Art Historian and Director of the National Museum Kraljevo (1995-2025)”, dedicated to one of the most significant figures of this institution, and will be opened by the authors Tatjana Mihailović, PhD, museum advisor of the National Museum Kraljevo and Dragan Drašković, retired museum advisor of the National Museum Kraljevo. The crowning achievement of the event is the awarding of the “Žiča Chrysobull” to the poet laureate on the Transfiguration, on August 19th, in the refectory of the Žiča Monastery. The winner of the “Žiča Chrysobull” for 2025 is the poet Gordana Đilas.