By: Smiljana Dodić, museum аdvisor, archaeologist
On July 3rd, in the presence of numerous visitors, despite the high July temperatures, in cooperation with Ruma County Museum, another guest visiting of “Manasija Monastery – six decades of researches and protection” exhibition was held in Ruma. The cooperation with this Srem museum started in 2018 with an exhibition about “Kupinik, the last capital of Serbian despots” held in Jagodina.
The exhibition about the researches and conservation works within the monastery complex of the endowment of one of the most important Serbian medieval rulers Despot Stefan Lazarević visited several cities of Serbia and Bosnia and Herzegovina, and those ones held in the authentic ambience of the monastery’s refectory, organized within the international knight festival JUST OUT 2015 and 2017, were particularly interesting. The ninth guest visiting of the exhibition in Ruma, represented a new challenge of presenting hundreds of different objects in a specific space and a lot of anticipation for its final outcome. The host’s help to the author of the exhibition is always welcome, and colleagues from Ruma were always helpful and available. However, we owe special thanks and satisfaction with the final appearance of the exhibition to Predrag Peđa Jovović, well-known Ruma painter, young archaeologist Lazar Marković and Tatjana Simić, who made this rather demanding job easy with their initiative, advice and entrepreneurship.
Visitors were greeted by the acting director of the Ruma museum archaeologist Uroš Nikolić, one of the authors Smiljana Dodić introduced them to the exhibition and the mayor of Ruma and curator historian Sandra Ćirić declared the exhibition opened.
