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Museums and galleries of Novi Sad
Museum of Contemporary Art of Vojvodina
The Museum of Contemporary Fine Arts in Novi Sad was founded on February 1, 1966 by the decision of the Assembly of AP Vojvodina and called the Gallery of Contemporary Art. The name of the institution was changed in 1996, with the recommendation and consent of the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Serbia, and having in mind that since its founding, the Gallery has performed activities that correspond to the function, scope and character of the Museum of Contemporary Art.
The museum fund contains collected collections of fine arts that represent a historical overview of poetics and phenomena in artistic events in Vojvodina in the second half of the 20th century. The art fund contains 2500 works of art (paintings, sculptures, graphics, drawings and works in the field of extended media), and a significant part of it consists of donations from Vojvodina artists: Milan Kerc, Mileta Vitorović, Stojan Trumić, Dušan Milovanović, Zoran Petrović, Bogomil Karlavaris, Ankica Oprešnik, Boško Petrović and a number of smaller donations.
The Collection of Foreign Art includes works by some of the most famous names in world art: Viktor Vasareli, Hundertwaser, Rafael Soto, Jim Cave and others.
Museum of Novi Sad
The Museum of the City of Novi Sad was founded in 1954 and belongs to the category of city museums of a complex type, whose activities include the development of the city from its inception to modern times.
It consists of: Department of Archeology with collections from prehistory, antiquity and the Middle Ages, Department of History with collections from the field of economic, socio-political history and history of Petrovaradin Fortress, Department of Cultural History with collections from fine arts, applied arts, education and publishing , Department of Ethnology with collections in the field of crafts, rural architecture, everyday and ordinary life and the Homeland Gallery which collects works of contemporary art.
Museum of Vojvodina
The cultural institution with a museological tradition of more than 150 years is one of the largest museums of a complex type in Serbia, which preserves in its collections the invaluable cultural heritage collected in the area of Vojvodina. It was founded in 1847 in Pest, at a session of the Board of Directors of Matica Srpska, on the initiative of prominent Serbs from Vojvodina under the name "Serbian National Collection or Museum".
In 1933, the Matica Srpska Museum was opened, the first public cultural institution of its kind in the history of Novi Sad,
with the task of collecting, keeping museum acquisitions from the area of Vojvodina.
The Matica Srpska Museum has formed the following collections: a gallery of paintings, an archeological, ethnological and numismatic collection, a collection of precious photographs and clichés, a library and archive.
After the Second World War, the dynamic development of museum activities in the APV began. In 1947, the Vojvodina Museum was founded with collections from archeology, history, ethnology, art, zoology, botany, geology, paleontology and mineralogy.
Matica Srpska Gallery
The richest art museum of Serbian art of recent times. It was founded in 1847.
It has been operating as an independent institution of Matica Srpska since 1958.
Her permanent exhibition chronologically presents selected works from the entire art fund, which contains about five thousand works of art important for the national art history of modern times and the culture of the Serbian people in Vojvodina from the end of the 17th to the end of the 20th century. All works of art that the Matica Srpska Gallery received as a gift from numerous donors, took over for safekeeping from the Serbian Orthodox Church and other owners, purchased
from private property or obtained by planned copying of wall paintings, are stored, studied, protected and used under appropriate conditions. Depending on the physical, artistic and cultural-historical properties, the works of art in the Gallery's collection are classified into systematic collections of Serbian painting, graphics, drawings, sculptures, oleography and copies. All collections are available to the public. They can be seen in a permanent exhibition and at occasional exhibitions.