Sixteen distinguished experts and researchers of the Serbian Middle Ages responded to the invitation of the Endowment of the Holy Monastery Hilandar to present the personality of King Stefan II Uroš Milutin, his reign and legacy in a comprehensive and picturesque way. The contributions were specially written for this occasion and this book, designed as a collection of monographic type, on the occasion of the 700th anniversary of the death of the Holy King.

The one-day scientific gathering is the result of a successful multi-year collaboration between the National Museum Kraljevo, the Faculty of Law at the University of Belgrade and the Institute for Political Studies from Belgrade. On the day dedicated to the founder of the Žiča Monastery, the Holy King Stefan the First-Crowned, fourteen distinguished scholars from the fields of history, law and geopolitics will present twelve papers.

At the exhibition, along with dozens of authentic photographs, the audience will be able to meet the personal memories of the former residents of the homes, which have been published for the first time. Along with numerous archival documents, the exhibition depicts the daily life of children and their parents in refugee homes during the war years in a picturesque and interesting way.

Živko Ivković is one of the most competent authors in the field of world, Yugoslav and Serbian rock and roll history. During the lecture, students of the “Rock Planet” music school from Kraljevo will perform with several yu-rock tracks in an acoustic performance.

Visitors will have the opportunity to see an exhibition of paintings by Jelena Šalinić Terzić, a full professor at the Faculty of Philology and Arts of the University of Kragujevac, called “Styx”. Born in Kraljevo, Jelena Šalinić exhibited at 50 solo and over 300 group exhibitions in the country and abroad.

At the exhibition the audience will have the opportunity, to learn through postcards, photos, objects and documents, about the genesis of the origin and development of Mataruška Banja: from the discovery of healing water, through the interwar years boom and rise, then systemic and ideological changes in socialism, when it developed into a modern health resort, in accordance with the standards of modern balneology and rehabilitation, until the beginning of the nineties of the 20th century, when it experienced a kind of setback.

At the promotion of the journal “Our Past 21”, the scientific-professional newsletter of the National Museum Kraljevo and the Historical Archives Kraljevo, the articles will be presented by Ljubodrag P. Ristić, PhD, Miloš Timotijević, and Asst. Prof. Jelena Pavličić Šarić, PhD.

The exhibition of the National Museum of Serbia offers visitors the opportunity to learn about occupations, family relationships, fashion, customs, the position, and role of women in the private and public sphere, during the ancient era in the Balkans, through carefully selected museum objects, encouraging reflection on the perception of roles and relationships both in past times and in the current age.

Thematic guidance through the exhibition “Femina Balcanica: Mater, Matrona, Augusta, Dea. Woman on the Balkans in Antiquity” of the National Museum of Serbia, refers to the topic “Woman in a Roman Family”. Tatjana Mihailović, PhD, museum advisor of the National Museum Kraljevo and art historian Jelena Marković will guide you through the story of the place and role of women in the Roman family.

How Roman women's hairstyles were made and what was used for them, you will have the opportunity to find out through the reconstruction of the procedure at the workshop “Fashionable Hairstyles in the Roman Era” within the exhibition “Femina Balcanica: Mater, Matrona, Augusta, Dea. Women on the Balkans in the Antiquity”, as well as how the hair was cared for and how much the Roman empresses had a part in tracing the basic fashion trends of styling hairstyles.

Thematic guidance through the exhibition “Femina Balcanica: Mater, Matrona, Augusta, Dea. Woman on the Balkans in Antiquity” of the National Museum of Serbia, refers to the topic “Roman Fashion””. Tatjana Mihailović, PhD, museum advisor of the National Museum Kraljevo and art historian Jelena Marković will guide you through the part of the exhibition that relates to fashion trends in Roman times that women followed.

What did it mean to be a woman in the ancient period? What obstacles did the inhabitants of these areas face in the first centuries of our era? How did they overcome them? Aurelia from Viminacium, a woman who is rarely seen, will help us in our search for answers, through a lecture by Ilija Danković, PhD, scientific associate of the Archaeological Institute in Belgrade.