Museum Collections and Funds Department

Professional and scientific work in the Historical Museum of Serbia is carried out through four departments of the Division of Primary Protection. Connected with each other, the departments undertake diverse tasks in order to collect, preserve, interpret and exhibit museum objects within its collections.

This department is basic one in the Museum and consists of two units: one dealing with the collections within its competence, and the other one, dealing with the collections outside its competence. Both units employ historians, art historians, archeologists and ethnologists. Museum experts are engaged in systematical filling up of the collections, their preservation and identification, as well as in their interpreting, presentation and publication through temporary exhibitions and various issues. Apart from this, the curators perform researches in other scientific and professional institutions, archives and museums; they also work on sites, in order to find materials needed for studying certain periods of Serbian history and their further use as museum displays.

Particular aspect of work can be recognized in archeological and architectural researches. Independent archeological excavations the Museum carried out on the Avar necropolis in Mali Idjos, and, in cooperation with other institutions, on sites near Stari (Old) Ras, in Backo Petrovo Selo, and nearby Kladovo.

For their almost half-of-century-long activity, the Museum experts collected a lot of objects of outstanding importance for Serbian history, which were evaluated as indispensable in representing social-political, economic, cultural, educational and other aspects of life of the Serbs and their state from their settlement in the Balkans up the present.

Their work and results of their researches, the Museum experts present on temporary exhibitions, the number of which exceeds one hundred, and which were great success not only in Serbia but also abroad, as well as in the Review of the Historical Museum of Serbia and catalogues of collections and exhibitions.

Staff

Collections within Museum’s competence

            Budimir Milojko, senior curator

Vujnovic Andrej, senior curator

            Vuksan Vanja, curator

            Damnjanovic Nebojsa, senior curator

            Jankovic Zorica, curator

            Korica Borislav, curator

            Ljubojevic Bosko, curator

            Merenik Vladimir, curator

            Radmanovic Stefica, senior curator

            Radosevic Stojanka, curator

            Solunac-Jovic Snezana, curator

Collections outside Museum’s competence

            Bojic Dusica, MA, curator

            Vuksan Marko, curator

            Jovanovic-Ceska Tijana, senior curator

            Skoric Zeljka, MA, museum counselor