On the occasion of October 17, the day of liberation of Jagodina from fascism in the Second World War, 45 of the most successful individuals, companies and organizations received October awards at the ceremonial session of the City Assembly. Branislav Cvetković, phd, museum advisor of the Regional Museum, was among the winners.
During his extremely rich career, our colleague published more than 200 articles and studies and 15 books, participated in about sixty scientific meetings in the country and abroad and trained at Harvard’s Byzantology Center. He was an external associate of the Institute of Balkan Studies (Serbian Academy
of Sciences and Arts), where he earned the title of senior scientific associate and has the status of a scientific worker in the Republic of Serbia. He received his master’s degree in 2008 from the Department of Art History of the Faculty of Philosophy in Belgrade with the subject “Wall painting of the Jošanica monastery”, and at the same faculty he received his doctorate in 2010 with the subject “Nova Pavlica Monastery: history, architecture, painting”.
He has been employed at the Regional Museum since 1991, and currently works as a curator of collections in the Art Department. So far, he has organized 12 author’s exhibitions, and as a co-author participated in the realization of nine exhibitions. He gave 15 lectures on various topics, which were well attended and popular with the audience. He carried out field research in the territory under the jurisdiction of the Regional Museum in Jagodina (Jošanica, Županjevac, Kalenić, Radošin, Resava, Sisojevac, Crnica, Ivković). Among the publications of the Regional Museum, his monographs on the Jošanica monastery near Jagodina and the Trsat reliquary stand out.
We congratulate our colleague Branislav Cvetković on this recognition, which crowned his dedicated and tireless work on the preservation and protection of cultural heritage.