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Urban in Urbanism!?

By: Branislav Cvetković, museum advisor Among well preserved buildings of old Jagodina, the house in Kn. Milice Street No. 6 attracts special attention because it stands out with its façade that is both modernist and romantic being dominated by a balcony resembling a ship’s bow. This…

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Count of Monte Cristo among the Serbs

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…

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

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…

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Amulet and souvenir

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…

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Sketches from the life of a curator…

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…

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A Culture of Memories and Oblivion

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…

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