History – Page 2 – Regional Museum Jagodina

Visit of HSH Prince Alexander Karađorđević to Jagodina and Glass Manufacture of Avram Petronijević

27. April 2022.

By: Jasmina Trajkov, museum advisor Eight months after the first glass was produced in Avram Petronijević's glass manufacture and sent as a gift to HSH Prince Alexander Karađorđević, the Serbian ruler visited this factory and on that occasion he was given a magnificent welcome. A couple…

Avramovac – the first Serbian glass factory

15. April 2022.

By: Jasmina Trajkov, museum advisor The first industrial production in Serbia was started near Jagodina in 1846 with the establishment of the Avram Petronijević glass factory on the location between the villages of Mišević and Belica. The factory operated well for some time, but could not…

Мystical symbol of the Universe – A piece of dodecahedron from the Regional Museum in Jagodina

4. April 2022.

By Smiljana Dodić, museum counselor A significant part of the Collection of Greek and Roman Antiquites in the Regional Museum of Jagodina consists of fragmented metal objects, mostly acquired through donation during the last thirty years. The former curator of the collection Radovan Petrović dedicated…

Written in stone – Whose brain is this?

14. March 2022.

By: Nevena Cvetković, senior curator What is a chance of finding a fossilized brain? Incredibly small! In fact, soft brain tissue is almost never preserved in the fossil record, instead the endocranial casts are, being shaped only under specific sedimentary conditions. After the death of…

“To my little puppy …”

8. March 2022.

By: Jasmina Trajkov, museum advisor For more than a century, March 8 has been International Women's Day around the world. In 1975, the United Nations recognized it as an official holiday dedicated to the struggle for women's human rights, ie the day in which we…

The exhibition “Stone in Prehistory” will be held in Petrovac na Mlavi

3. March 2022.

The audience of the Homeland Museum in Petrovac na Mlavi will have the opportunity to visit the exhibition of our museum "Stone in Prehistory" from March 3 to April 11, whose author is the senior curator of the Regional Museum of Jagodina Sonja Perić, archaeologist.…

Weaponry and the life of wariors in the Middle Ages

21. January 2022.

By: Smiljana Dodić, museum advisor Last summer the Regional Museum of Jagodina joined the initiative of the National Museum in Kragujevac for cooperation within the exhibition Weaponry and the life of wariors in the Middle Ages. The author of this exhibition which presented objects from wealthy…

“Naš zavičaj”–a new edition of the Regional Museum of Jagodina

25. November 2021.

Thanks to the support of the Ministry of Culture and Information of the Republic of Serbia, our new publication "Our Homeland - Cultural and Historical Heritage of Jagodina from the Beginning of the 19th Century" was published by Jasmina Trajkov, Museum Advisor of the Regional…

The exhibition “General Dušan Dodić – Hero of the Great War” will be held in Vršac

9. November 2021.

On the occasion of the Day of the Liberation of Vršac in the First World War, the exhibition "General Dušan Dodić - Hero of the Great War" will be opened in the City Museum of Vršac on Wednesday, November 10, 2021. In that way, the…

Duško Grbović, museum advisor of the Regional Museum of Jagodina, participated in a scientific conference held in Prokuplje and Prolom Banja

28. May 2021.

On the occasion of the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Prokuplje in the Second World War, a scientific gathering called "War Crimes of the Bulgarian Army in the South of Serbia" was organized in Prokuplje and Prolom Banja. The meeting was held in the…

Branislav Cvetković, museum advisor, published a new article about Trsat Reliquary

20. May 2021.

The recently published collection of studies dedicated to the prominent Serbian archaeologist Marko Popović PhD, and leading collaborator of the Archaeological Institute in Belgrade, also includes an article written by Branislav Cvetković. This text is built on results of research of only one part of…

Cultural goods of exceptional importance in the fund of our museum

10. May 2021.

At the beginning of April 2021, the National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia passed a Decision declaring 720 copies of old and rare library materials a cultural asset of exceptional importance. Among these items were six manuscripts from the collection of the Regional Museum…