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Historical facts, gifts, and notes

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…

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

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,…

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Damn you… (!?)

By: Branislav Cvetković, museum advisor Curses, witchcraft, spell casting, and fortune telling are ancient forms of superstition that has always been present across the planet and in all world cultures and religions. It is found both in Old Testament (God curses snake) and in New…

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AUTUMN OF ARCHAEOLOGISTS

By: Sonja Perić, Senior Curator THE SYSTEMATIC ARCHAEOLOGICAL PROSPECTING OF THE JAGODINA REGION After successful archaeological research in Ivkovački Prnjavor, the archeological team of the Regional Museum of Jagodina: Sonja Perić and Smiljana Dodić, in cooperation with the experts of the Archaeological Institute: Peter…

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Let us remember Sveta Šumarević

By: Branislav Cvetković, museum advisor These days, it has been 45 years since the death of a prominent Serbian journalist, writer, and historiographer Svetislav Šumarević, whose portrait, the work of the Slovenian sculptor Lojze Dolinar, adorns the permanent exhibition of our Museum. Šumarević was born…

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Indian Summer in the Gorge of the Županjevac River

Written by: Smiljana Dodić, museum counselor - archaeologist At the beginning of October we started protective archaeological excavations inside the church of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin in Ivkovački Prnjavor, near Jagodina, popularly known as the Ivković Monastery. This shrine represents the parish church…

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