Stories from the Museum

The war path of the largest military unit and the longest that existed on the territory of central Serbia. In this episode, film footage of old Kragujevac (in 1920 and 1930) is shown for the first time.

It was founded in Kragujevac in 1853 as a smelter of cannons. Soon after, it received several production lines of civilian program. The first civilian products made by the Serbian industry were nails.

Prince Aleksander, the son of the uprising leader Karadjordje, is the most neglected ruler of recent Serbian history in historiography, in art, and globally in Serbian society

How did the civil class raise itself in Serbia? Which was the first urbanized street? Original items from a civilian house, traditions, way of life

The story of one of the most popular rulers in the history of Serbia. Where did he build the first Serbian assembly building? How did he want to implement Ilija Garašanin’s „Nachertania“? Why was Prince Mihailo killed?

Where is stored the cross in front of which the insurgents took the oath in Takovo, on Candlemas Day 1815? Where are the remains of the Takovo oak under which the Second Serbian Uprising started?

The camera follows key places linked to Karadjordje and the First Serbian Uprising. Original items from the Voljavcha Monastery and the connection between medieval Serbia and Serbia under Karadjordje.

The first Serbian states and their expansion on the territory of Shumadiya. The only Donjon tower preserved in Shumadiya. Life of the „ordinary people“ during the Middle Ages in Serbia.

Lepenski vir – the place where was made the first sculpture in World History, where the first religion was born, where the first domestication of animals and cultivation of plants took place.