At the promotion of the scientific-professional journal of the National Museum Kraljevo and the Historical Archives in Kraljevo, the articles will be presented by Aleksandra Vuletić, PhD, Prof. Milan Popadić, and Milutin Živković, PhD.

The String Quartet “Bliss” consists of: Bojana Đolović (violin), professor of chamber music, violin and orchestra at the Music School “Dr. Vojislav Vučković” in Čačak, founder of the “Bliss” Quartet, Aleksandar Jakovljević (cello), professor at the Department of Chamber Music at the Faculty of Arts of the University in Niš, Saša Mirković (violin) and Jovan Tešić (violin). The program was supported by the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Serbia.

The exhibition by the author Violeta Cvetanoska, senior curator of the National Museum Kraljevo, was organized on the occasion of marking 2022 as the International Year of Glass, declared and supported by the United Nations.

Lecture by prof. Slobodan Marinković will present the original techniques in this area, created throughout history, as well as the contemporary fusion glass technique. The lecture is organized as part of the exhibition “Magic of Glass: Glassware from the Ethnological Collection of Household Furnishings of the National Museum Kraljevo”.

The lecture by art historian Marina Lukić Cvetić is organized in cooperation with the Museum of Spoonsweet – House of Cvetić, as part of the exhibition “Magic of Glass: Glassware from the Ethnological Collection of Household Furnishings of the National Museum Kraljevo”. As well-known as Venetian carnivals and gondolas, from the Venetian Republic to the present day, the fascination for decorative and utilitarian objects made of Murano glass has not stopped, and at one time it was also made in the local factory in Prokuplje.

At the author's guidance by Violeta Cvetanoska, senior curator of the National Museum Kraljevo, through the exhibition, visitors will have the opportunity to learn more about the glass objects that were used in bourgeois houses in Kraljevo and that were part of everyday family life.

The exhibition by Desa Đorđević Milutinović, PhD, museum advisor of the Natural History Museum in Belgrade, shows through exhibits, photos, and texts the path from leaves picked from the tea plant to a cup of a pleasant and medicinal drink, as well as the path of tea from its homeland China to all parts of the world. Four basic types of tea are presented: white, green, black and oolong, and visitors will have the opportunity to see for themselves the basic differences between black and green teas, as well as to learn about the rules for preparing certain teas.

As part of hosting the exhibition “Green and Black: Story of Tea”, a lecture of the same name will be held by Desa Đorđević Milutinović, PhD, museum advisor of the Natural History Museum in Belgrade. The lecture includes a review of the etymology of the word tea, the history of this beverage and its journey from China, further east to Asia, and west to Europe, as well as an overview of the most famous types of black and green teas.

The promotion, organized by the City of Kraljevo, the National Museum Kraljevo and the Serbian Cultural Club of SND Vasojevići from Berane, marks 20 years of scientific and research work by historian Goran Kiković.

Within the exhibition of the Natural History Museum in Belgrade “Green and Black: Story of Tea”, we are organizing an interactive program for the audience, where visitors will have the opportunity to enjoy the stories from the exhibition with a cup of tea and find out how this mysterious plant conquered Europe, and then the whole the world.

The book was created as a doctoral thesis of Milan Radovanović, PhD, which was defended at the History Department of the Faculty of Philosophy of the University of Belgrade. It refers to the period after the Second World War, when Jews in Yugoslavia were starting a new life, faced with dilemmas: to stay and participate in the reconstruction of the country under a new ideological system, or to decide to emigrate to Israel.

The exhibition presents a retrospective display of archival materials of the rock group “Smak”, which was founded in 1971 by drummer Slobodan Stojanović Kepa, famous guitarist Radomir Mihajlović Točak and bassist Zoran Milanović. The emphasis is on the history and importance of the group “Smak” from Kragujevac, as a kind of rock phenomenon from the heart of Šumadija and one of the biggest rock groups of the former Yugoslavia.