Exhibition to mark 170th anniversary of National Museum

BELGRADE - The Belgrade National Museum will mark its 170th anniversary by an exhibition entitled 'Kroz lica Muzeja' (Through the faces of the Museum) on the oldest museum institution in Serbia.

On Sunday, June 14, the exhibition will be officially opened by Assistant Minister of Culture and Information in the Sector for Cultural Heritage Protection Aleksandra Fulgosi, the National Museum announced.

Visitors will be able to learn more about 28 selected individuals who in various ways indebted the National Museum during the 170 years of its existence.

The exhibition will offer a chance to display the only remaining fragment and replica of the Idol of Klicevac after a number of years which was destroyed 100 years ago during the Austro-Hungarian bombing of Belgrade.

The rarely displayed copy of the fresco of Amor with a gavel, from the collection of foreign artefacts, will be featured as one of the exhibits, as well as the graphics such as The Gnome by Odilon Redon and the portrait of young Vuk Karadzic and the figurines made from terracotta from the Greek and the Roman periods.

The authors of the exhibition include Mina Jovic, Marina Pejovic, Andrija Despotovic, Aleksandar Bandovic, Jovan Mitrovic and Nikola Kilibarda.

The exhibition will be open by September 14.