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.