The National Museum of Valjevo

For almost a century, the building of the Museum has served its educational purpose, being a grammar school, a school of economics, technical school and a primary school on several occasions.The Museum was originally placed in Muselim's Lodgings building, after that it was transferred in today's nearby building. Since 1968 the Museum has been located in the building which was built in 1870.

The previous permanent exhibition of the Museum of Valjevo was opened in 1979, and in 1997 it was closed because the building was dilapidated. The process of sanation and renovation of the building started in 2002 with extensive construction work both on the outside and the inside of the building. 

First the area of 600 square meters was provided for the administrative workers, and the area of 1000 square meters on the ground floor was prepared, it is a modern well equipped area for the Museum's public communication which consists of the lobby with souvenir shop and tourist information desk, ten exhibition halls, Museum club for various cultural activities and two galleries for themed exhibitions.

The new permanent exhibition called “The third dimension of the past – a view from the future” was opened on May 19 2007 on the first national Museum Night. The Museum Association of Serbia awarded the plaque “Mihailo Valtrović“ to the National Museum of Valjevo for the best museum in Serbia in 2005 and 2008.

A walk through ten halls of the Museum offers more than mere information obtained from looking at the exhibits, it enables us to immediately experience the times, events, pictures and sounds. By combining traditional ways of museum presentation with contemporary techniques of ambient and event reconstruction, with the use of multimedia, the National Museum of Valjevo offers its visitors a one of a kind tridimensional time travel.