The Nazi occupation of Slovenian Styria in the spring of 1941 was a great disaster for Slovenians. In accordance with Hitler's order “Make this country German again!” the occupier wanted to destroy the Slovenian nation in just five years and completely Germanize the country. Among the most important measures were arrests and mass deportations of the population, and Serbia was designated as the end point. From June 7th to July 10th, 1941, 6,802 people were deported from Slovenia to Serbia in 17 transports.

The Allied bombing of Kraljevo and its surroundings is part of a wider military-strategic plan to stop the Second World War. In order to prevent the grouping of German forces and their movement from the Balkans to the Western Front, the commands of the Balkan Military Air Force (BAF) directed a series of aerial bombing missions against military-strategic targets in the Balkans. During 1944, the German army group “E” was attacked, which was retreating from Greece through the Moravian-Vardar valley in the direction of Yugoslavia.

The author, in his latest work, brings a new, comprehensive view of the era of King and Emperor Stefan Dušan, the most influential Serbian medieval ruler, his role and place in history, viewed through the prism of the past, within the framework of a kind of culture of memory in our environment.

The backbone of the exhibition, whose authors are Suzana Novčić and Ljubiša Simović, museum advisors of the National Museum Kraljevo, consists of works from the museum's Art Collection, of which there are 33 in total. In addition, in order to fully present the work of Ksenija Divjak, the exhibition also includes a significant number of works of art from other institutions: the Museum of Contemporary Art in Belgrade, the Gallery of Fine Arts – Gift Collection of Rajko Mamuzić in Novi Sad, the Modern Gallery in Valjevo, and the Art Gallery “Nadežda Petrović” in Čačak.

The Kosovo Covenant is a concept that is being talked about more and more today. Although there is no single definition, it has a clear meaning and visible presence in historical sources. In today's world, oriented towards individualism, materialism, hedonism, and even nihilism, Kosovo's commitment to the Kingdom of Heaven has an almost subversive meaning. This is, by all accounts, the attractive power of the Kosovo Covenant in our time.

The books “Census of 1863” I-II cover Karanovac and the Karanovac District (Book I) and villages outside the Karanovac District, today part of the City of Kraljevo (Book II), and were published by the National Museum Kraljevo, and were prepared by Bojana Miljković Katić, PhD and Nemanja Trifunović. These are prepared historical sources of the first order – a census of people, real estate and income from 1863, for the territory of today's City of Kraljevo, which is one of the most important historical sources for the demographic, economic and social history of Serbia in the 19th century.

The monograph entitled “Smak” represents an important and indispensable part of Serbian and Yugoslav musical culture, especially when it comes to its sub-genre called rock and roll. Although a band […]

The exhibition presents metal tableware collected over more than 150 years, diverse in type and purpose, material and technique. You can see silver and gold-plated plates and glasses that were an integral part of ceremonial tables and personal valuables, as well as those made of other non-ferrous metals used daily for storing, preparing and serving food and drinks.

At the promotion of the twenty-second issue of the scientific and professional journal of the National Museum Kraljevo and the Historical Archives Kraljevo, Gordana Gavrić, Ana Kostić Đekić, PhD and Miloš Timotijević, PhD will present their works, while Tatjana Mihailović, PhD, editor of the journal “Our Past”, will speak about the issue as a whole.

Thematic guidance through the exhibition “Between the Trapeza and the Sofra. Metal Vessels from the 13th to the 19th Century in the Collections of the National Museum of Serbia” relates to the topic “Cups of the Balkan Gentlemen”. Audience will be guided through the part of the exhibition that includes the most luxurious type of tableware by Tatjana Mihailović, PhD, museum advisor of the National Museum Kraljevo and art historian Jelena Marković.

The half-hour documentary-feature film “Cross from Kosovo”, produced by the Genocide Victims’ Museum, sheds light on the centuries-old suffering of the Serbian people in Kosovo and Metohija, with a special focus on the suffering years of World War II. After the screening of the film, Nikola Miloševski, curator of the Genocide Victims’ Museum, will give a lecture on this topic.

Thematic guidance entitled through the exhibition “Between Trapeza and Sofra. Metal Vessels from the 13th to the 19th Century in the Collections of the National Museum of Serbia” relates to the topic “In the Service of God and the Faithful People: Metal Cult Vessels”. The audience will be guided through the part of the exhibition that includes various types of vessels used within the Christian and Islamic cults by Tatjana Mihailović, PhD, museum advisor of the National Museum Kraljevo, and art historian Jelena Marković.