Blog – Page 4 – Regional Museum Jagodina

Famous comic author Alexandar Zograf donated a picture postcard of old Jagodina to our museum

31. March 2023.

By: Jasmina Trajkov, museum advisor Saša Rakezić alias Aleksandar Zograf, our well-known comic author, with whom the Regional Museum cooperated last year, donated us a valuable picture postcard that will significantly enrich the museum's collection. It is a item from the end of the first decade…

Count of Monte Cristo among the Serbs

24. March 2023.

By: Branislav Cvetković, museum advisor Collection of Old and Rare Books of our museum, being inexhaustible in wealth of data, also keeps edition of one of the most popular adventure novels, the three-volume Count of Monte Cristo, by the famous French writer Alexandre Dumas the…

In memoriam: Branislav Đokić Kan (1947–2023)

20. March 2023.

On Friday, March 17, Branislav Đokić Kan, a native artist, and above all an art pedagogue, who, during four decades of work in education, instructed generations of young people in the secrets of artistic creativity, passed away. He was also engaged in writing aphorisms and…

The cooperation of the Regional Museum Jagodina and the Laboratory for Bioarchaeology within the project ARCHAEOWILD

14. March 2023.

By: Nevena Cvetković, senior curator At the beginning of March, the Regional Museum Jagodina began cooperation with the project “ARCHAEOWILD: The Holocene History of Human-Wildlife Conflict and Coexistence: Archaeozoological, Archaeobotanical, Isotopic, Ancient DNA, Iconographic and Written Evidence from the Central Balkans", guided by PhD Sonja…

Amulet and souvenir

1. March 2023.

By: Branislav Cvetković, museum advisor Once upon a time, travel was easier because there were no hard borders, border crossings, visa regimes and passports in the modern sense and the key reason besides trade was pilgrimage. Hajj are practiced in all religions so there are…

Which building was the most beautiful palace in pre-war Jagodina?

24. February 2023.

By: Jasmina Trajkov, museum advisor During the fourth decade of the 20th century, several representative and monumental buildings were built in Jagodina, which were the true pearls of our city's architecture. One of them is the House of Jagodina Merchants, today the building of the…

Sketches from the life of a curator…

3. February 2023.

By: Smiljana Dodić, museum counselor Professional life of a museum keeper is always imbued with constant meetings with people of various interests, characters and origins, with whom we often develop long-term friendships. Ten years ago while making an extensive photographing of objects for their re-inventoring…

A Culture of Memories and Oblivion

18. January 2023.

By: Branislav Cvetković, museum advisor The “memory culture”, although used as a scholarly term only in modern period, denotes old practices of maintaining various types of commemoration of past in order to set collective identity. This complex, specific processing of historical heritage is closely related…

In memoriam: Milica Stanojević (1956-2023)

16. January 2023.

It was with disbelief and regret that we received the news that Milica Stanojević, a former employee of the Regional Museum of Jagodina, and in the period from December 21, 2004 to March 4, 2009, the director, died suddenly after a short illness on the…

Between needs and harsh reality

28. December 2022.

By: Branislav Cvetković, museum advisor Protection of cultural heritage, although regulated by laws and decrees often does not reach necessary scope. There are many reasons, from non-compliance with law and widespread vandalism to that a large number of monuments have not been listed. The weather…

Historical facts, gifts, and notes

19. December 2022.

By: Branislav Cvetković, museum advisor The rich Collection of Old and Rare Books in our Museum abounds with interesting specimens that contain a lot of information, mostly unknown to scholars and the general public. The subgroup of rare books contains two copies of the once…

GUARDIANS OF THE PAST – The Ministry of Culture RS supported the conservation of another 115 metal exhibits from the Museum’s collection

13. December 2022.

Written by: Sonja Perić, senior curator The main task of us, curators, (lat. custos), guardians of museum collections, is to protect museum objects from deterioration for the future. This preservation implies complete care of the object, both its acquisition, protection, processing, chronological and cultural determination,…