Curator Nemanja Trifunović of the National Museum Kraljevo will lead a guided tour through the exhibition “Journey to the East of King Milan Obrenović: Pilgrimage and Oriental Culture at the Serbian Court.” The tour will highlight the significance of the king’s journey to the Holy Land and the influence of Oriental culture on the Serbian royal court. Through reconstructed artifacts, historical photographs, travel diaries, and modern multimedia content, the exhibition reveals not only the details of a royal voyage but also the cultural encounters that shaped courtly life and artistic expression in Serbia at the end of the 19th century.

The private life of the “first Serbian king after Kosovo” was undeniably marked by his relationship with his wife, Queen Natalija. However, the focus of this lecture will be the emotional life of the Serbian sovereign, woven with numerous affairs, with particular emphasis on his love and relationship with Artemiza Hristić.

Author’s guidance by Snežana Cvetković, PhD, through the exhibition “Journey to the East of King Milan Obrenović: Pilgrimage and Oriental Culture at the Serbian Court” offers visitors a chance to uncover the stories and symbols hidden within objects, photographs, and reconstructions, and to step into a time when the Serbian ruler sought meaning, refuge, and inspiration – as the scents, colors, and light of the Orient entered the history and daily life of the royal court.

The exhibition “Women’s Handwriting in Kovačica Naïve Painting: From Needle and Thread to UNESCO” is inspired by the inscription of Kovačica naïve painting on UNESCO’s Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity in December 2024. It features works by 30 women artists who have made significant contributions to the development of this artistic phenomenon.

The documentary film “The Two Faces of War”, by Zoran Dobrić, a journalist, documentary filmmaker and professor of journalism at the University of Vienna, was produced by the Austrian national television ORF. The main theme of the film is the lesser-known role of Austrian citizens in World War II in the occupied Kingdom of Yugoslavia.

The scientific conference “Development of Towns in Western Pomoravlje in the 19th and 20th Century” is dedicated to the urban evolution of Čačak, Užice, Kraljevo, Trstenik, Kruševac, and Gornji Milanovac over two centuries of profound social, economic, and urban transformation. Special emphasis is placed on industrialization, infrastructure development, demographic shifts, and the emergence of modern urban centers that have shaped this region of Serbia.