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Museum Of Yugoslav History
The Museum of Yugoslavia ( sr, Музеј Југославије, Muzej Jugoslavije) is a public history museum in Belgrade, the capital of Serbia. It chronicles the period of Kingdom of Yugoslavia and Socialist Yugoslavia as well as the life of Josip Broz Tito. Tito's grave is located in one of the museum buildings (the House of Flowers). With 120,000 visitors annually, it is the most visited museum in Serbia. History "Josip Broz Tito" Memorial Centre All three buildings that make up the Museum of Yugoslavia were previously part of the "Josip Broz Tito" Memorial Centre. The 25 May Museum was opened on 25 May 1962. It was built by the City of Belgrade as a present to Josip Broz Tito, the president of Yugoslavia, for his 70th birthday. This museum was used to display presents that Tito have received up until 1962. A special collection of Relay of Youth batons were on display in this museum. On 16 November 1982, the "Josip Broz Tito" Memorial Centre was founded and the 25 May Mu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Belgrade
Belgrade ( , ;, ; Names of European cities in different languages: B, names in other languages) is the Capital city, capital and List of cities in Serbia, largest city in Serbia. It is located at the confluence of the Sava and Danube rivers and the crossroads of the Pannonian Basin, Pannonian Plain and the Balkan Peninsula. Nearly 1,166,763 million people live within the administrative limits of the City of Belgrade. It is the third largest of all List of cities and towns on Danube river, cities on the Danube river. Belgrade is one of the List of oldest continuously inhabited cities, oldest continuously inhabited cities in Europe and the world. One of the most important prehistoric cultures of Europe, the Vinča culture, evolved within the Belgrade area in the 6th millennium BC. In antiquity, Thracians, Thraco-Dacians inhabited the region and, after 279 BC, Celts settled the city, naming it ''Singidunum, Singidūn''. It was Roman Serbia, conquered by the Romans under the reign ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gerbrand Van Den Eeckhout
Gerbrand van den Eeckhout (19 August 1621 – 29 September 1674) was a Dutch Golden Age painter and a favourite student of Rembrandt. He was also an etcher, an amateur poet, a collector and an adviser on art. Biography Gerbrand was born in Amsterdam, the son of a jeweller, a Mennonite who fled after 1585 from Antwerp to the north. In 1631 his mother died. His father's second wife was Cornelia Dedel, the daughter of a founder of the Delft chamber of the Dutch East India Company. Arnold Houbraken records Van den Eeckhout was a pupil of Rembrandt. A fellow pupil to Ferdinand Bol, Nicolaes Maes and Govert Flinck, but regarded as inferior to them in skill and experience; he soon assumed Rembrandt's manner with such success that his pictures were confused with those of his master. Eeckhout does not merely copy the subjects; he also takes the shapes, the figures, the Jewish dress and the pictorial effects of his master. It is difficult to form an exact judgment of Eeckhout's qual ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Museums Established In 1996
A museum ( ; plural museums or, rarely, musea) is a building or institution that cares for and displays a collection of artifacts and other objects of artistic, cultural, historical, or scientific importance. Many public museums make these items available for public viewing through exhibits that may be permanent or temporary. The largest museums are located in major cities throughout the world, while thousands of local museums exist in smaller cities, towns, and rural areas. Museums have varying aims, ranging from the conservation and documentation of their collection, serving researchers and specialists, to catering to the general public. The goal of serving researchers is not only scientific, but intended to serve the general public. There are many types of museums, including art museums, natural history museums, science museums, war museums, and children's museums. According to the International Council of Museums (ICOM), there are more than 55,000 museums in 202 cou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Museums In Belgrade
Art museums * Museum of Illusions (Nušićeva 11 * National Museum of Serbia (Trg republike 1a* Museum of African Art, Serbia, Museum of African Art (Andre Nikolića 14) * Museum of Applied Arts (Vuka Karadžica 18* Museum of Contemporary Art (Belgrade), Museum of Contemporary Art (Ušće bb* Legacy of Milica Zorić and Rodoljub Čolaković (Rodoljuba Čolakovića 2), part of Museum of Contemporary Art (Belgrade), Museum of Contemporary Art * Belgrade City Museum (Resavska 40b* Museum of Paja Jovanović, (Kralja Milana 21/VI part of Belgrade City Museum * Zepter Museum (Knez Mihailova 42) ww.zeptermuseum.rs* Gallery of Frescos, (Cara Uroša 20 part of National Museum of Serbia Cultural and historical museums * Historical Museum of Serbia (Trg Nikole Pašića 11) mus.org.rs/en/home* Museum of Yugoslav History (Mihaila Mike Jankovica 6 with 3 buildings: House of Flowers (Tito's tomb), Old museum (Tito's gifts and documents about Yugoslavian history) and Museum 25 May ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yugoslav Drama Theatre
Yugoslav Drama Theatre ( sr-cyrl, Југословенско драмско позориште, Jugoslovensko dramsko pozorište; abbr. JDP or ''Jugodrp'') is a theatre located in Belgrade, Serbia. It was founded in 1947 as the representative theater of new Yugoslavia. Actors from Zagreb, Novi Sad, Sarajevo, Split, Ljubljana and other cities were invited to perform there. History In 1947, director Bojan Stupica was appointed the head of the theatre as an artistic manager, much to the dismay of his mother, along with the critic Elli Fincci. Fincci laid the foundation for the reporter orientation of the Yugoslav Drama Theatre as the theatre that focused on high literary quality. Approximately 60 renowned actors were selected as initial members, among them Мarija Crnobori, Мira Stupica, Branka Veselinović, Мlađa Veselinović and Kapitalina Erić. The Yugoslav Drama Theatre was founded on the site of the driving school, and the stable was adapted and turned into the stage. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yugoslav Film Archive
The Yugoslav Film Archive ( sr, Југословенска кинотека / Jugoslovenska kinoteka) is a film archive located in Belgrade, the capital of Serbia. Founded in 1949, it is a founding member of the International Federation of Film Archives and was the national film library of the Yugoslavia and currently of Serbia. The main cinema operated by the Yugoslav Film Archive is named after Dušan Makavejev. History The Yugoslav Film Archive was founded by the Federal People's Republic of Yugoslavia's Committee for Cinema in 1949. During the 1999 NATO bombing of Yugoslavia the archive's collection was under threat, however, it was successfully saved. Italian director Bernardo Bertolucci penned a plea for the Archive to be spared during the bombing. After restoration, the new main building of the Archive was officially opened in 2011 and in 2014 it was opened for the public. Collection The film collection contains over 100 000 film prints of various national production ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Archives Of Yugoslavia
Archives of Yugoslavia ( sr-cyr, Архив Југославије), in Belgrade, Serbia, houses and protects the archival materials produced by state bodies and organizations of Yugoslavia from 1918 to 2006. It currently exists as a cultural institution, museum and library. The Archives' building is located in Senjak, which belongs to a designated cultural-historical area of Topčider, famous for its numerous public and private buildings assigned monument status. It is the most important archive and museum of the history of Yugoslavia. History The Archives of the Yugoslav state were founded in 1950, under the name ''State Archive of the Federal People's Republic of Yugoslavia (FNRJ)''. Three years later the name was changed to ''The State Archives of FNRJ'', and in 1964, to ''The Archives of Yugoslavia''. It retained this name until 2003, when, as a consequence of the creation of a State Union of Serbia and Montenegro, it was renamed ''The Archives of Serbia and Montenegro'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Council Of Ministers Of Serbia And Montenegro
{{Politics of Serbia and Montenegro The Council of Ministers of Serbia and Montenegro ( sr, Савет Министара Србије и Црне Горе, ''Savet Ministara Srbije i Crne Gore'') was the federal executive governing body of Serbia and Montenegro. Organization Chairman of the Council: Svetozar Marović Secretary general: Igor Jovičić The Council was composed of 5 ministries. Ministers at the moment of dissolution were: *Minister of Foreign Affairs - Vuk Drašković (Preceded by: ''Goran Svilanović'') *Minister of Defense - Zoran Stanković (Preceded by: '' Prvoslav Davinić (11 July 2004 - 21 October 2005)'', ''Boris Tadić (17 March 2003 – 11 July 2004)'') *Minister of International Economic Relations - Predrag Ivanović *Minister of Internal Economic Relations - Amir Nurković *Minister of Human and Minority Rights - Rasim Ljajić Responsibilities The Council of Ministers duties were to: *Chart and pursue the policy of Serbia and Montenegro in tune wi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
World War II In Yugoslavia
World War II in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia began on 6 April 1941, when the country was swiftly conquered by Axis forces and partitioned between Germany, Italy, Hungary, Bulgaria and their client regimes. Shortly after Germany attacked the USSR on 22 June 1941, the communist-led republican Yugoslav Partisans, on orders from Moscow, launched a guerrilla liberation war fighting against the Axis forces and their locally established Puppet state, puppet regimes, including the Axis-allied Independent State of Croatia (NDH) and the Government of National Salvation in the Territory of the Military Commander in Serbia, German-occupied territory of Serbia. This was dubbed the National Liberation War and Socialist Revolution in post-war Yugoslav communist historiography. Simultaneously, a multi-side civil war was waged between the Yugoslav communist Partisans, the Serbian royalist Chetniks, the Axis-allied Croatian Ustaše and Croatian Home Guard (World War II), Home Guard, Serbian Volun ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ušće Tower
Ušće may refer to: * Ušće, Belgrade, a settlement in Belgrade, Serbia * Ušće (Obrenovac), a village in the municipality of Obrenovac, city of Belgrade, Serbia * Ušće (Kraljevo) Ušće ( sr-cyr, Ушће) is a populated place in the town of Kraljevo in the Raska district. According to the 2011 census, there were 1,881 inhabitants. Demographics There are 1621 adult inhabitants in the settlement of Ušće, and the averag ..., a village in the municipality of Kraljevo, Serbia or: * Ušće Tower, a building in Ušće, Belgrade, Serbia {{disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Palace Of Serbia
The Palace of Serbia ( sr, Палата Србије, Palata Srbije) is a building located in the Novi Beograd municipality of Belgrade, Serbia. The building is used by the government of Serbia and currently houses several cabinet level ministries and agencies. Name The technical name of the building is Federal Executive Council 1 ( sr, Савезно извршно веће, Savezno izvršno veće 1; abbr. ''SIV 1'') as it was used by the Federal Executive Council of Yugoslavia. Later, it was informally known as the Palace of the Federation ( sr, Палата Федерације, Palata Federacije) before given its present name. After the construction was finished, the building was named "The Palace of the Federation", but colloquially and sometimes even officially it referred to as SIV and SIV 1 (after the construction of the buildings SIV 2 and SIV 3). After the disintegration of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, only the name "Palace of Federation" was used, an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New Belgrade
New Belgrade ( sr, / , ) is a municipality of the city of Belgrade. It is a planned city, built since 1948 in a previously uninhabited area on the left bank of the Sava river, opposite old Belgrade. In recent years, it has become the central business district of Belgrade and its fastest developing area, with many businesses moving to the new part of the city, due to more modern infrastructure and larger available space. With 214,506 inhabitants, it is the second most populous municipality of Serbia after Novi Sad. Geography New Belgrade is located on the left bank of the Sava River, in the easternmost part of the Srem region. Administratively, its northeastern section touches the right bank of the Danube, right before the Sava's confluence. It is generally located west of the 'Old' Belgrade to which it is connected by six bridges (Ada Bridge, New Railway Bridge, Old Railway Bridge, Gazela, Old Sava Bridge and Branko's Bridge). European route E75, with five grade separations, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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