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In addition to seeing a place that I've never seen before, one more reason why I went to Pancevo was to see the iconic painting by Paja Jovanović - "Migration of the Serbs".
I found out about it in a museum in Zrenjanin. There was a copy there, but there was also a note stating that the original was in the National Museum Pancevo.
Paja Jovanović is one of my favourite Serbian painters. I've written ...
After Zrenjanin, I decided to go to Pancevo. In reality, it's really Pančevo, but there is no a letter č in the English alphabet, so all English language websites refer to it as Pancevo. I'll do the same. In Serbian, the letter č is for the sound ch in English, as in chair. Every Serb will look at Pancevo and will read it correctly. So, this short explanation is for foreign readers, to know how to correctly ...
After Novi Sad and Sremski Karlovci, I went to Zrenjanin. I could've easily done these three places at the same time. They are all in Vojvodina, close to each other and also close to Belgrade. Zrenjanin is approximately 55km from Novi Sad. But, as I'm in Serbia for a longer period of time, I decided to take it easy and do one excursion per week.
Travelling in Serbia is cheap. There are regular intercity ...
I'm almost ashamed to say that I've never been to the Museum of Yugoslavia. Not even back in the distant 1980, when Marshal Tito died. At that time, after his burial, they were taking school kids to visit his tomb, but for some reason my school didn't go, I don't remember why. So, now that I'm in Belgrade, I decided to go there for the first time.
They call it the Museum of Yugoslavia, although I don't ...
I've been in Belgrade for just over two months now. In one of my previous posts, I wrote about many restoration projects that the city authorities were doing to improve the way the city looks. But the biggest and most ambitious building project was the Saint Sava Church. They've now completed the works and you can finally also see the church, in addition to the crypt.
So, if and when you go to Belgrade, ...
I shouldn't really write a separate post about Zemun. That's because Zemun is a municipality of Belgrade. But Zemun has been part of Belgrade for only 86 years. For many past centuries, it was a completely independent city.
The main reason why I decided to write a separate post is because, when you go there, it feels like being in a completely different place. The last time I was there it was over 30 ...
There is one more important section in the National Museum in Belgrade that I'd like to write about. I saw it for the first time during my latest visit to the museum. The section that I'm talking about is the Yugoslav modern art.
In fact, it makes sense to add these paintings to the permanent collection. Thus, you can see progression of the Serbian art from medieval times, through the 18th and the 19th ...
This is my second post on the Yugoslav 20th century art. During my latest visit to Belgrade, I went back to the National Museum to see this collection. I mostly missed it when I was there last time. Sometimes, we go to a museum and, after a while, we become saturated with too many impressions. Then, it becomes difficult to process and remember everything. But thanks to the photos in this and my previous ...
I visited the newly restored National Museum in Belgrade in November 2018. Afterwards, I presented four important parts of its collection: Medieval Art, Serbian 19th Century Painting, International Collection and Impressionists. Surely, all of them are truly impressive. But there is one more important collection in the museum. I'm talking about the Yugoslav 20th century art.
So, I went back to the museum ...
The Impressionists in the National Museum in Belgrade add to the story of this museum. In my previous posts, I wrote about the Serbian medieval art, Serbian 19th century painting and also about the international collection that you can see there. Surely, these are truly magnificent works of art.
But the Impressionists collection is also special and unique. The museum in Belgrade is the only place where ...
