A very special and important place in the Museum’s art fund stands for the collection of Knjaževac’s academic painter Dragoslav Živković, M.A. a significant Serbian and internationally recognized contemporary artist. This collection is not numerous, but it is essential for the Homeland museum of Knjaževac, since the majority of the works was created mainly for the purposes of new permanent exhibitions of the Museum. The rest of the collection represents mostly the artist’s early artworks and they are a gift from the author himself.

The idea and intention was that the art of Dragoslav Živković should give a visual identity to the Homeland museum of Knjaževac, from exhibition spaces to publications and promotional material of the museum. Dominating position in the collection have a distinctive charcoal drawings made on canvas such as Prehistory, the Roman legionnaires - Timacum Minus, Chanting to the ring, Knjaževac and others exposed in the permanent exhibition of the museum. Like a few early works – acts, dry pastel drawings o Babin Zub, pastel drawing on canvas from 1998 and a few unavoidable, authentic and unusual oil paintings like Lady from Knjaževac and Carnival. The collection of the Homeland Museum in Knjaževac was added by works owned by the author himself or Momčilo Todorović, a collector from Belgrade. The collection of Dragoslav Živković is exposed in a separate section in the museum gallery in Karadjordjeva 15, as a significant part of the permanent exhibition of the Homeland museum of Knjaževac.

This, by the number, modest collection consists of several collections. Works of native artists make a separate collection. It represents the works of contemporary painters from Knjaževac, such as: academic painter - graphic artist Dragoljub Sandić, the author of the Museum’s logo as well as numerous posters and publications of the Museum; Milinko Koković – academic painter that lives and works in Belgrade and who gave his early art works as legacy to the Museum; Miroslav Bata Blagojević Cincar; Rade Ristić, whose pedagogical work and activities in the field of industrial design and marketing, has marked the period of 80’s of the 20th century in Knjaževac, Tomislav Paunković internationally recognized artist who lives and works in Germany; Slaviša Mirković, an art teacher and exceptional painter, young artists Vojislav Marković, academic graphist and Aleksa Marković, academic sculptor, Marija Andrejević, young and talented academic painter, Žarko Aleksić and Jelena Micić who deal with contemporary media, art teachers Goran Milosavljević and Marina Novaković, archpriest Sima Žikić, watercolorist Nenad Corelj and many others.

This collection is composed of several smaller collections, systematized according to the technique and time of origin. There is a collection of icons painted on wood or metal in the late 19th and early 20th century, largely by the hand of unknown icon painters.

The collection contains several Russian icons imported to Serbia from Russia in large numbers in the nineteenth century, then a group of icons – painted by zografs – icon painters working in Southern Serbia and Macedonia in the mid-19th century, Milisav Marković icons on wood and metal, works of Milan Besarabić, Milivoj Nikolajević and Mladen Josić,work of Sima Žikić and several graphics. This collection is followed by a collection of liturgical objects, vessels and books, vestments and insignia and other objects of applied art.

This is collection of art works created in the second half of the 20th century and the first decade of the 21st century.

These are works of eminent academic painters such as: Branislav Dinić, Mirko Trimčević, Ciga Milenković, Slobodan Jovanović Dobrotin, Jagoda Živadinović and others, that the Museum has purchased or received as gifts from individuals or related institutions.