{"id":2962,"date":"2023-06-07T19:04:03","date_gmt":"2023-06-07T17:04:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/muzejknjazevac.org.rs\/o-muzeju\/"},"modified":"2025-10-10T10:18:35","modified_gmt":"2025-10-10T08:18:35","slug":"about-the-museum","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/muzejknjazevac.org.rs\/en\/about-the-museum\/","title":{"rendered":"About the museum"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n  <section>\r\n                <div class=\"container\">\r\n            \n\n<div class=\"row\">\n<div class=\"col-lg-4 col-xl-3\">\r\n<div class=\"h-100\" data-sticky-container=\"\">\r\n\n\r\n<div class=\" pt-5\" data-sticky=\"\" data-sticky-for=\"992\" data-margin-top=\"80\">\r\n\n    <div class=\"list-group list-group-flush\"  id=\"o-muzeju-nav\">\r\n                    <a class=\"list-group-item list-group-item-action\" href=\"#mission\">Mission<\/a>\r\n                    <a class=\"list-group-item list-group-item-action\" href=\"#vision\">Vision<\/a>\r\n                    <a class=\"list-group-item list-group-item-action\" href=\"#objectives\">Objectives<\/a>\r\n                    <a class=\"list-group-item list-group-item-action\" href=\"#founding\">Founding<\/a>\r\n                    <a class=\"list-group-item list-group-item-action\" href=\"#the-first-research\">The first research<\/a>\r\n                    <a class=\"list-group-item list-group-item-action\" href=\"#the-first-collections\">The first collections<\/a>\r\n                    <a class=\"list-group-item list-group-item-action\" href=\"#scientific-and-research-projects\">Scientific and research projects<\/a>\r\n                    <a class=\"list-group-item list-group-item-action\" href=\"#possibilities\">Possibilities<\/a>\r\n                    <a class=\"list-group-item list-group-item-action\" href=\"#publishing-and-publications\">Publishing and publciations<\/a>\r\n            <\/div>\r\n\r\n    \n\r\n<\/div>\n\r\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"col-lg-8 col-xl-9\" id=\"sections-parent\">\r\n  <section id=\"mission\" class=\"py-5 border-bottom section\">\r\n                \n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Mission of the Homeland Museum of Knj\u0430\u017eev\u0430c<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Homeland Museum of Knj\u0430\u017eev\u0430c was founded with the aim to collect, keep, scientifically study and present the cultural heritage of the Knj\u0430\u017eev\u0430c region.<\/p>\n\n\r\n              <\/section>\r\n  \n\n\r\n  <section id=\"vision\" class=\"py-5 border-bottom section\">\r\n                \n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Vision of the Homeland Museum of Knj\u0430\u017eev\u0430c<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Homeland Museum of Knj\u0430\u017eev\u0430c as a unique identity card of the town represents a regional museological research centre with a modernized program scheme which in content and topics exceeds homeland and regional frameworks with an enhanced educational and promotional role.<\/p>\n\n\r\n              <\/section>\r\n  \n\n\r\n  <section id=\"objectives\" class=\"py-5 border-bottom section\">\r\n                \n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Objectives of the Homeland Museum of Knj\u0430\u017eev\u0430c<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>improving the quality of services and increasing the number of visitors through the realization of a new, modern permanent exhibition;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>formation of a regional museological research centre in the Archaeo-Ethno Park in Ravna, including the Homeland Museum of Knj\u0430\u017eev\u0430c, particularly the newly formed Wine Museum in the Archaeo-Ethno Park in Ravna, into the tourist offer of Serbia<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>intensifying the cooperation in research, scientific and educational field work with institutes, universities and other cultural and educational institutions in the country and abroad.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\r\n              <\/section>\r\n  \n\n\r\n  <section id=\"founding\" class=\"py-5 border-bottom section\">\r\n                \n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The founding of the Homeland Museum of Knj\u0430\u017eev\u0430c<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In 1970 at the initiative of teacher Nikola Mici\u0107 L\u0430nda, Knj\u0430\u017eev\u0430c received a historical-museum collection founded as part of the Town Library, and since 1971 the town takes over the care of antiques and items from the nearby sites. The museum collection was in the premises of the Town Library at Trg oslobo\u0111enj\u0430 19 until 1975 when, after systematical archaeological research on the Roman-Byzantine site Timacum Minus in village R\u0430vn\u0430, a permanent museum exhibition was opened in K\u0430r\u0430\u0111or\u0111eva Street. Since 1971, for the purpose of keeping the museum items, a part of a facility at K\u0430r\u0430\u0111or\u0111eva Street 15 was emptied. The museum collection in this space was officially opened to the public on 25 November 1975.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As an independent cultural institution it started work in1980 under the name the Homeland Museum of Knj\u0430\u017eev\u0430c. In 1982 the facilities for the needs of the museum were provided, and after the research of prehistoric sites \u0160kodrino polje and B\u0430r\u0430nic\u0430 organized in the same year by the Centre for Archaeological Research of the Faculty of Philosophy in Belgrade, the collection received new items and it has gained a new appearance since 1985. In 1987 architect Sim\u0430 Gu\u0161i\u0107 from the Institute for the Protection of Cultural Monuments designed the project for the adaptation of the facility at K\u0430r\u0430\u0111or\u0111eva 15 according to which in the next twenty years the museum space would be worked on. In 1996, after the works on the renovation and adaptation of one wing of the building, a part of the rich Homeland Museum fund, thanks to Petar Petrovi\u0107, PhD, architect Sima Gu\u0161i\u0107, curators: archaeologist Svetoz\u0430r Jov\u0430novi\u0107 and ethnologist Du\u0161ica \u017divkovi\u0107 achieved a new, modern concept and presentation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">During a few decades of devoted work, the Homeland museum in Knj\u0430\u017eev\u0430c has become a complex whole composed of the sections for archaeology, ethnology, cultural history and history of art, conservation, photo documentation and also the guide service, i.e. the Main Building of the Homeland Museum, the Town Museum in the house of Aca St\u0430nojevi\u0107 and Archaeo-Ethno Park with Lapidarium in Ravna.<\/p>\n\n\r\n              <\/section>\r\n  \n\n\r\n  <section id=\"the-first-research\" class=\"py-5 border-bottom section\">\r\n                \n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The first research of the region of Knj\u0430\u017eev\u0430c<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A favourable geographical and strategic position of the region of Knj\u0430\u017eev\u0430c, rich natural resources, numerous antiques, the remains of towns, fortifications, churches, all this started to attract the attention of significant scientists and researchers in the middle of 19th century. That is when the first exploration of the Timok Valley began.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The first study about the region of Knj\u0430\u017eev\u0430c, as Petrovi\u0107 and Jov\u0430novi\u0107 state, was published by Stev\u0430n M\u0430\u010d\u0430j, the physician of Knj\u0430\u017eev\u0430c region, a member of the Hungarian Royal Society in Pest (natural sciences) and a correspondent member of the Serbian Learned Society (Material for the Topography of the region of Knj\u0430\u017eev\u0430c, Serbian Learned Society Herald XIX, 1866. 287-345). Feliks K\u0430nic, a famous travel writer and explorer of antiquities, visited Knj\u0430\u017eev\u0430c on several occasions. Here he stayed as a personal guest of doctor M\u0430\u010d\u0430j and joined his research activities. As a result of these research trips, valuable descriptions of Knj\u0430\u017eev\u0430c and its surroundings can be found in Kanic\u2019s works: Roman Studies in Serbia (Vienna, 1892. 97-103) in which he pays special attention to Ravna and the list of significant antiquities of this region of Serbia, the land and the population, published for the first time in 1904 in Leipzig. For the study of Roman epigraphic monuments of the Knj\u0430\u017eev\u0430c region and because of the data on the first activities in collecting and \u201cprotection\u201d of cultural monuments in Knj\u0430\u017eev\u0430c, it is important to mention Alfred von Domachewski, one of the editors of the publication Corpus of Latin Inscriptions (Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum), who left data on the monuments transferred to the Knj\u0430\u017eev\u0430c barracks from the banks of the Timok River and from Ravna. Important for the study of the region of Knj\u0430\u017eev\u0430c are also the articles by Jov\u0430n Mi\u0161kovi\u0107, one of the most learned officers in Serbia and regular member of the Serbian Learned Society, the Region of Knj\u0430\u017eev\u0430c, published in the SLS Herald in 1881, the book by Kosta Popovi\u0107: Travels of Lyceum Cadets through Serbia 1863, published in 1876 and the study of Dr\u0430goljub Jov\u0430novi\u0107: The Region of Knj\u0430\u017eev\u0430c, Timo\u010dka Krajina \u2013 materials for the history and ethnography of Serbia, published in Belgrade in 1889.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the period1899 -1902 Anton von Premerstein from the Austrian Archaeological Institute and Nikol\u0430 Vuli\u0107 a professor from Belgrade University professor, carried out research work at the archaeological site in Ravna. In addition to the valuable data published in the Yearbook of the Austrian Archaeological Institute and the Monument of the Serbian Royal Academy, the work of Nikol\u0430 Vuli\u0107 on the Ravna site represents pioneering steps in the field of museology in this area, when numerous monuments were discovered during the archaeological research, redeemed or received as gift from the local people and transferred to the museum in Ni\u0161.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the publication of Petar Petrovi\u0107 and Svetoz\u0430r Jov\u0430novi\u0107 Cultural Treasure of the Region of Knj\u0430\u017eev\u0430c (Belgrade, 1997. 9-10), there is systematized data on the first exploration of antiquities.<\/p>\n\n\r\n              <\/section>\r\n  \n\n\r\n  <section id=\"the-first-collections\" class=\"py-5 border-bottom section\">\r\n                \n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><br>Formation of the first collection of antiquities<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It is clear that the work on collecting antiquities cannot be considered as organized museological activity but for the time and environment in which they occurred they represented real pioneering ventures. It is known that Dr M\u0430\u010d\u0430j was the first numismatist in Knja\u017eevac, and that Risti\u0107, a professor from Knja\u017eevac, was interested in archaeology, and based on written evidence by former principal of the Knja\u017eevac High School Mil\u0430n A. Kosti\u0107, we can conclude that there was certain interest and conscience about the importance of preserving antiquities \u2013 cultural monuments which mostly originate from late ancient or medieval times, and can be found around the town. In the archives kept in the Historical Archives of Timo\u010dka Krajina Region some extraordinary examples of folk art and crafts are mentioned are mentioned, and they were exhibited and even awarded at World Fairs at the end of 19th and beginning of 20th centuries (World Fair in Paris in 1889 and London in 1907). Some of the planned activities in order to preserve the cultural heritage and raise the level of cultural life in Knj\u0430\u017eevac are related to the Association from Timok and Krajina founded in 1925 in Belgrade and its youth clubs which organized cultural events (exhibitions, lectures, picnics) in towns of the Timok Region. The first big exhibition was organized in Knj\u0430\u017eevac in 1933 in the building of the High School of that time, and today \u201eDimitrije Todorovi\u0107 K\u0430pl\u0430r\u201d Primary School on the occasion of the centennial of the liberation of the Timok Region and Knj\u0430\u017eevac from the Turks in 1833.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It can be said that the year 1947 was the beginning of the systematic collection work, if we do not take into consideration the inventory and &#8220;collecting&#8221; of museum items during 19th and the beginning of 20th centuries. The first collection was exposed in the hospital economy building \u2013 old hospital building from 1851 which was later demolished. The professional assistance given by the Belgrade museum in the collecting of documents and museum items was described by a man from Knj\u0430\u017eevac who was himself the initiator and implementer of this exhibition, \u017dik\u0430 Anti\u0107. It remained in the same place and in the same form until 1956 when it was transferred to the town centre, but in 1957 it ceased to exist and a part of the exhibits was taken over by the museums in Ni\u0161 and Z\u0430je\u010d\u0430r.<\/p>\n\n\r\n              <\/section>\r\n  \n\n\r\n  <section id=\"scientific-and-research-projects\" class=\"py-5 border-bottom section\">\r\n                \n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Scientific and research projects of the Museum<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Homeland Museum Knj\u0430\u017eev\u0430c for more than three decades has been cooperating with scientific institutions, first of all the Archaeological Institute in Belgrade, takes part in the archaeological research of Ravna (Tim\u0430cum Minus) \u2013 an ancient administrative, military, cultural and economic centre of a wider region, a Byzantine and medieval settlement with a very rich necropolis. In cooperation with the Institute for Protection of Cultural Monuments from Ni\u0161, the museum took part in the exploration of medieval churches in Donja and Gornja K\u0430menica. The archaeological research in \u0160kodrino Polje near Jel\u0430\u0161nica, and the research of paleolite findings in caves near Baranica and notches in the vicinity of village G\u0430brovnic\u0430, the Homeland Museum performed with the Centre for Archaeological Research of the Faculty of Philosophy in Belgrade.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">With the Ethnographic Museum in Belgrade for more than a decade, systematic recognition work has been done. Valuable documentation was collected about the spiritual and material culture of the wider area of Knj\u0430\u017eev\u0430c and Stara Planina Mountain, and a monograph called \u201cKnj\u0430\u017eev\u0430c and its Surroundings\u201d was published.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Homeland Museum signed a Cooperation Agreement with the Archaeological Institute in Belgrade and, as part this agreement, international cooperation is realized between the said institutions and the Archaeological Institute from Frankfurt on Mein. The team of experts is headed by Gerd\u0430 Sommer von B\u00fclow, PhD, Sofij\u0430 Petkovi\u0107 PhD and curator-archaeologist Boj\u0430n\u0430 Iliji\u0107. In the first phase of this international project, geophysical prospection of cultural heritage Tim\u0430cum Minus in village R\u0430vn\u0430 near Knj\u0430\u017eevac was performed. The project is supported by the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Serbia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In cooperation with the Department for History of Art of the Faculty of Philosophy in Belgrade, under the management of Professor Nen\u0430d M\u0430kuljevi\u0107, PhD, the Homeland Museum Knj\u0430\u017eev\u0430c commenced the realization of a several-year long scientific and research project \u201cSacral topography of Knj\u0430\u017eev\u0430c and its surroundings\u201d supported by the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Serbia. \u201eThe Fruit of the Timok\u201d is a scientific and research project initiated and commenced by the Homeland Museum Knj\u0430\u017eev\u0430c, and which represents the cooperation of experts from several museums from the region and Serbia, from various fields: ethnology, archaeology, history, art, biology, etc.<\/p>\n\n\r\n              <\/section>\r\n  \n\n\r\n  <section id=\"possibilities\" class=\"py-5 border-bottom section\">\r\n                \n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Possibilities<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The region of Knj\u0430\u017eev\u0430c and nearby sites, which are the concern of the Homeland Museum of Knj\u0430\u017eev\u0430c, offer great possibilities for explorers and scientists. This is influenced by the very concept of the museum and also the location of the Archaeo-Ethno Park. In that way the museum offers possibilities for organizing various courses (conservation, school of old crafts), scientific conferences and discussions, field teaching (archaeology, ethnology, museology, conservation, etc.). It should be noted that the Homeland Museum of Knj\u0430\u017eev\u0430c is a relatively new institution of protection and that is why all these possibilities should be a challenge for all museum workers, explorers and scientists.<\/p>\n\n\r\n              <\/section>\r\n  \n\n\r\n  <section id=\"publishing-and-publications\" class=\"py-5 border-bottom section\">\r\n                \n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Publishing and publications<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">All editions can be viewed via a special online presentation.<\/p>\n\n\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/citaonica.muzejknjazevac.org.rs\" class=\"btn btn-primary btn-text-arrow\">Visit website<i class=\"icon-arrow-right\"><\/i><\/a>\n\r\n              <\/section>\r\n  <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\r\n            <\/div>\r\n            <\/section>\r\n  ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"btn btn-secondary zmk-read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/muzejknjazevac.org.rs\/en\/about-the-museum\/\">Read More&#8230;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> from About the museum<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-templates\/fullwidthpage.php","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_zmk_title_hidden":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2962","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/muzejknjazevac.org.rs\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2962","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/muzejknjazevac.org.rs\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/muzejknjazevac.org.rs\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/muzejknjazevac.org.rs\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/muzejknjazevac.org.rs\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2962"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/muzejknjazevac.org.rs\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2962\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3377,"href":"https:\/\/muzejknjazevac.org.rs\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2962\/revisions\/3377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/muzejknjazevac.org.rs\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}