Events

On the occasion of the 84th anniversary of General Franz Böhme’s last day in Serbia, the National Museum Kraljevo will host a lecture on the Wehrmacht officers responsible for the massacres in Kraljevo and Kragujevac in 1941. In addition to Böhme, special emphasis will be placed on Major Otto Desch, the direct commander of mass executions, whose postwar fate, along with that of many of his comrades, remains little known or insufficiently researched.

The exhibition of photographs and video works by Stefana Savić “This Is Not The Place”, invites viewers to confront their own layers of memory. As the gaze moves through empty spaces, arranged interiors, and glimpses of urban landscapes, it reveals that the place we return to often does not coincide with the one we carry within ourselves. In this dissonance emerges the poetics of the exhibition – a space where the image becomes a question, and memory its silent interlocutor.

Lojanik is a unique paleobotanical site where fossil remains of silicified, petrified wood have been discovered. It was designated a scientific research reserve in 1963. Archaeological investigations conducted between 2016 and 2022 unequivocally confirmed the mining concept of raw material extraction at Lojanik, spanning from the Paleolithic (Old Stone Age) to the Neolithic (New Stone Age).

The monograph offers readers answers to questions about the reasons for the collaboration of Muslims with the Germans, the extent of that process and its ultimate scope, the differences between participation in German units and fighting alongside them, the social and economic background of the “warriors from the border”, as well as their postwar fate.

The work of Miloš Timotijević on Nadežda Petrović represents a thorough historiographical study that precisely places her personality within the political, cultural, and ideological context of the time, relying on archival material and documents.

Serbian ruler portraits from the time of King Milutin provide a complete picture of the ideology of earthly power and the preoccupations of the Serbian king and his closest circle. During the reign of King Milutin, Serbian ruler images were already fully aligned with the Byzantine ceremonial image. The portrait ensembles from this period are based on the imperial idea and laid the foundation for Serbian ruler portraits, especially those from the time of the empire.