CITY MUSEUM – Bačka Palanka

CITY MUSEUM – Bačka Palanka

The City Museum building was constructed in 1903, and the facility itself served an educational purpose until 2020, when reconstruction works were completed. That same year, on September 13, experts from the Provincial Institute for the Protection of Cultural Monuments registered the building as a cultural asset.

Following the completed procedure, the building became the City Museum—a cultural property under preliminary legal protection. Experts from the Museum of Vojvodina prescribed technical protection measures and guidelines applied to all exhibits. The museum currently houses 5,530 items, classified into the following collections:

Archaeological Collection: 1,964 items (objects illustrating the prehistoric, ancient, and medieval periods). Prehistoric materials include bone awls, stone axes, clay weights, flint knives, a Neolithic altar, anthropomorphic figurines, and prehistoric pottery. Roman materials include coins, jewelry, oil lamps, cultural artifacts, and vessels and ceramic fragments from Roman provincial workshops. Medieval materials consist of coins, jewelry, tools, weapons, horse gear ornaments, and medieval pottery.

Ethnological Collection: 346 items

Historical Collection: 127 items

Eva Seč Bequest: 630 items

Željko Drljača Bequest: 38 items

Leonard Nemet Bequest: 55 items

Fine Arts Collection: 207 items

Numismatic Collection:589 items

Paleontological Collection: 232 items (including shell remains in stone, carbonized shell remains, prehistoric shark teeth, and mammoth skeletal remains—lower jaw, femur, rib, vertebrae, and teeth—believed to have gone extinct around 2,500 years ago).

Natural History Collection: 11 items

Civic School Classroom Collection: 801 items

Souvenir Collection: 320 items

Tactile Collection: 50 items (adapted for blind and visually impaired visitors, located in the upper museum corridor)

Highlights from Egyptology to Pazuzu: 50 items (designed to spark visitors’ interest in the exhibition halls they precede)

Ethnographic and Historical Items in the Upper Corridor: 50 items (the spacious museum corridor is used as an exhibition space)

Ores and Minerals: 60 items (displayed in the lower corridor, showcasing stones that reflect the geological past of the region)

The lower corridor of the museum also regularly hosts exhibitions of handicrafts created within the field of women’s innovative entrepreneurship, as part of the development of women’s entrepreneurship through the centuries. The total number of these items varies depending on the theme.

Within the City Museum building, there is also an Atelier where art workshops for all age groups are held, as well as a school of drawing and painting as one of its regular activities.

The museum also houses the City Gallery, where visiting exhibitions rotate periodically. With the addition of a piano, this hall also serves as a concert venue, hosting lectures, seminars, panel discussions, workshops, presentations, and promotions.

The courtyard of the building has also been renovated and enclosed, making it suitable for various city events.

Due to the wide range of activities within the institution, the Cultural Center of Bačka Palanka records a large number of daily visitors.

The City Museum also includes a professional library.

The City Museum carries out independent projects such as “Museum Digitalization,” daily visits, and the continuous improvement of 20 permanent exhibitions.

Opening hours on workdays: 07:00–19:00, and on Saturdays: 08:00-14:00.

Organized visits can be scheduled at any time by calling: +381 (0)63 403 224

Trg bratstva i jedinstva 21, Bačka Palanka
+381 (0)21 60 45 933 (museum) +381 (0)21 60 41 644 (CC) +381 (0)63 403 224
[email protected]
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