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 “Roman Goddesses”. 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 the female deities of antiquity.
Guided tour through the exhibition “Femina Balcanica: Mater, Matrona, Augusta, Dea. Woman in the Balkans in the Ancient Age” refers to the complete concept, when the audience will have the opportunity to get to know all segments of the exhibition. Tatjana Mihailović, PhD, museum advisor of the National Museum Kraljevo, and art historian Jelena Marković will guide you through the story of a woman in the Balkans in the ancient era.
The audience will have the opportunity to find out how Latin love songs sounded, how poets expressed their feelings through verses, and what it tells us about the role of women in Roman society at the workshop “Speak Latin So the Whole World Can Understand You”. Poetry in Latin and Serbian will be recited by the students of the Kraljevo Gymnasium, while the verses will be interpreted by the students of the Gymnasium in Vrnjačka Banja.
As part of the program “Let's Try History: Tasting of Roman Cuisine”, the audience will have the opportunity to meet the author of the exhibition “Femina Balcanica: Mater, Matrona, Augusta, Dea. Woman on the Balkans in Antiquity” by Dean Ratković, museum advisor of the National Museum of Serbia, enters the world of Roman cuisine and food culture and tries some of the ancient recipes that the Romans had on their tables.