Memorial museum Knjaževac

Memorial Museum of Knjaževac is located in the house of the former radical party leader Aca Stanojević, who was the President of the Serbian Parliament at the beginning of the 20th century.  Exhibited objects and artifacts of the cultural and significant value are first of all personal belongings and objects of Stanojevic Family while part of items represent gifts from the old families of Knjazevac which used to have name of Gurgusovac and was regarded as one of the oldest settlements in Serbia. Numerous Memorial museum Knjazevac events such are literary and music evenings and various lectures are organized in the nicely arranged ground floor of the City Museum of Knjaževac, within the gallery space.

The temporary exhibition of the Memorial Museum Knjazevac, from the prehistoric times until nowadays is exposed in the building in Karadjordjeva street 15, in the very center of Knjazevac. This is the cultural monument itself, built in 1906, and a type of cultural public property of civil architecture with stylish characteristics significant for the beginning of the 20th century. The Memorial Museum Knjazevac exhibition includes chronologically and thematically displayed original objects and artifacts, or exceptionally, the copies of the objects from Knjazevac and Timok region representing the nature and people. Unique Ethnographic collection of remarkable number of about 1000 examples of outstanding two-sided hand-pinned wool socks of Timok Region from the 18th until the 20th century is the part of the Memorial Museum Exhibits.