The house of Jovan Cvijić

The family residential building was built in 1905. The house at Kopitareva gradina and the preserved collection of artifacts represent authentic evidences on the life and work of the great Serbian and Yugoslav scholar Jovan Cvijić (1865- 1927). As a connoisseur of the countries and peoples of the Balkan Peninsula, he wrote a number of important scholarly works, like The Balkan Peninsula and the South-Slavic Countries, Geomorphology, Anthropogeographic Problems of the Balkan Peninsula, Basic Geography and Geology of Macedonia and Old Serbia. He was president of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts and corresponding member of the Yugoslav Academy of Sciences and Arts, and member of numerous scholarly societies in Yugoslavia and abroad, professor and rector of Belgrade University. He was honorary doctor of the Sorbonne in Paris and the University of Prague. From the Geographic Societies of London, New York, Paris, etc. he received gold and silver medals as tokens of recognition. Stylistically, the house is a representative of the early twentieth century academic style. Some works by Dragutin Inkiostri Medenjak have been preserved in the interior. Nowadays the building houses the museum dedicated to the great scholar.