CULTURAL VALUES - Museum

Negotin Museum was founded on 16th February 1934. buy the decision of Moravian Ban based in Nis, on the initiative of the people from Negotin. The original name of the museum was "Hajduk Veljko City Museum." Facilities for the work of the Museum were provided by two great benefactors and founders of the Museum: Petar Tipa, school inspector of the Ministry of Education and Milan Radojevic, school foreman. The museum in the beginning had the archaeological, scientific, numismatic and collection of books.

Today in the fund of museum there are about 15,000 objects, many of which are placed in permanent settings in the three representative object, which themselves are cultural goods: the Archaeological Museum, born house of Stevan Mokranjac and the Hajduk Veljko museum. In addition, the Museum of Krajina have activity on two archaeological sites: residential memorial complex Vrelo Šarkamen (III century) and complex Koroglaš monastery (XIV century).

Archaeological Museum consists of the archaeological, ethnological, historical and artistic collection of images and icons. Among the most important exhibits is extracted altar (found in Rudna Glava near Majdanpek 3500 BC), the god Neptune statue (bronze - 1th century), sculpture of Jupiter Dolihena (pilgrimage in Brza Palanka III-IV century), Serbian medieval collection of jewelry, etc..

The born house of Stevan Mokranjac include postulate which is performed in the ambiance of old-style town house at the end of 19th century. In the parterre is a permanent postulate by Stane Djuric Klein on the Mokranjac spiritual and sacred creation, and analysis of the musical composition. This is usually the area in which the chamber concerts are held, well read meetings and other cultural activities. On the upper floor is the ethnological postulate with significant objects from the time of the famous Serbian composer.

Hajduk Veljko Museum is placed in the building that impounds the beauty of that style, the house of the Duke of Negotin from half of the 19th century – house of the Duke Todorce. The museum postulate is dedicated to the hero from the first Serbian uprising, Hajduk Veljko. The museum is the subject of weapons and the Serb rebellion, household objects from the nineteenth century and exhibits incurred as a result of artistic inspiration on Hajduk Veljko.

The late ancient site of Vrelo Šarkamen is located 25 km west of Negotin. This residential-memorial complex comes from the Roman authorities (3-4. Century) and is one of the small number of confirmed so far out of Rome. The researches were carried out in one of the five visible objects mausoleum of the empress-mother,in 1996 it was found the set out the emperor's golden jewelry (located in the National Museum in Belgrade), from the time of regency of Galerie and Maksimina Daje (293 to 311 year BC). .

From ancient sites in the Krajina the remains of the Roman town Ad Akvas should be mentioned, which is located on the shores of the Danube near the village of Prahovo and which, in time of its greatest prosperity at the end of 2nd and the beginning of 3rd century, had between 15 and 20 thousand inhabitants.