National Museum of Pancevo

The administrative building of the city of Pancevo built in 1833-1838. during the Habsburg reign. Today this is a modern institution with a large and valuable permanent exhibition, the gallery, a publishing activity, depots where thousands of museum objects are collected and professionally prepared, and with a computer and electronic equipment as well, which is indispensable id the Museum wants to step into the 21st century.

The museum grew out of private collections, like a lot of other museums in the world. It is one of the oldest institutions of this kind in the country. The Museum's research work comprises the boroughs of Pancevo, Opovo, Kovacica and Kovin. Objects for the museum were obtained in several ways: as donations, collecting them on the spot and buying them up.

A cup with two handles, decorated with warty protrusions. It was discovered in Starčevo, on the eponymous site of the oldest culture of the Late Stone Age in Serbia.

Pot decorated with the barbotine technique. It was discovered in Starčevo, on the eponymous site of the oldest culture of the Late Stone Age in Serbia. 

The skeleton of a young person was discovered at the  site "Livade" near Pančevo, it was transferred to the National Museum of Pančevo in its original position. It belongs to the steppe culture of graves with ocher under the mounds of the Copper Age (Yamna culture). Dated by radiocarbon method in the period 2828–2491 BC.

The sword was found near the confluence of the Velika Morava and the Danube, during the gravel extraction in 1976. The sword is of Mycenian type, and most probably imported from the Aegean region in the Late Bronze Age period c. 1400 B.C.

Hemmoor type bronze cauldron made of thin bronze sheet with a handle whose tops end in the shape of stylized snake or dolphin heads. It came to this area as a war spoil or as a gift to barbarian tribal leaders. Antiquity period.

Belt fitting with a representation of a griffin, cast in bronze. It was discovered at the site „Gornjovaroška ciglana”  in Pančevo. Late Antiquity / Early Middle Ages.

Silver earring type Stenjevac made in the technique of filigree and granulation. It was discovered in Omoljica near Pančevo, in the grave of a woman during the excavation of a medieval church on the site „Preko Slatine” and represents a unique finding on the territory of Serbia.

Helmet made of iron, part of the war equipment of the Cuman horseman. It was discovered in Tomaševac near Zrenjanin,  together with other parts of war equipment (armor, saber) and belt sets. It belonged to a Cuman chief or prince. 

Belt buckle made of silver and gold in the technique of casting and engraving. It was discovered together with parts of war equipment and other parts of the belt set in Tomaševac near Zrenjanin, and belonged to a Cuman chief or prince. 

Belt fitting made of silver and gold in the technique of casting and engraving. It was discovered together with parts of war equipment and other parts of the belt set in Tomaševac near Zrenjanin, and belonged to a Cuman chief or prince. 

The green flag is made of silk damask, bordered with gold tassels and ornaments. Floral motifs are embroidered in the corners In the middle, on one side, the figure of St. Paul with an oar in his hand, with the inscription "Pancevo Fishermen's Support Association". The words "Saint Paul, pray for us" are also embroidered in the corners. On the other side of the flag there is a biblical motif in a medallion, Jesus Christ and two apostles in a boat with a fish.

Long flintlock rifle "Jefferdar" richly decorated with mother-of-pearl, silver and gold. It was made by masters from the Bay of Kotor, in the mid-19th century. The weapon was made with great care and was very richly decorated, it was obviously intended for an important person.

The stage ambience of the painting is the landscape bathed in the sun, figures and objects are defined by diffused light and light blue shadows, more freely treated than the previous version created half a century ago, which makes the work stand out in the artist's oeuvre.

The work was ordered for the Public Library in Pancevo. It shows us two standing figures of saints given according to established iconography, with the exception of a realistic representation of characters with a measured expression between saintly serenity and indications of personality psychologization. The golden background is reminiscent of the traditional way of treatment. The icon is a combination of traditional and contemporary tendencies in Serbian Orthodox church art. 

The portrait of a young elegant woman, portrayed en face in the interior in a sitting position. A moment of leisure is shown, a modern excerpt from the life of the bourgeois elite, with an emphasis on the pensive expression of a young woman at the moment of reading the letter, placed in a rococo armchair. In her image, we recognize the face of the model, the artist's wife - Muni.

The artist's wife, an Austrian, Hermina Dauber-Jovanović, called Muni, was Paja's favorite model. In addition to her numerous portraits, she is depicted in many roles as a mythological or allegorical character. Out of a total of thirty-five acts in the legacy, thirteen belong to Hermine Dauber’s plays. Here she is painted in the form of a bust, which is outlined by the circular shape of the frame - a tondo, a representation resembling motifs from porcelain painted miniatures.

This could be a snowy landscape of any city, but it is a painting. Curved shapes of the cityscape - a winding road defines a curved view - a perspective imposed on the observer. The carriages, painted in the lower right corner, seem to descend from the hill, expanding the space of the painting beyond the borders of the frame. The artist's vision of the city is expressionist, although not fully and literally implemented formally by elements of expressionism.

A representative portrait of the monarch in a sitting position, given below the knee in a half-profile in the interior. He is shown in an officer's uniform, with characteristic glasses, a discreet mustache and combed black hair. With his right hand, he is leaning on the empire style armchair in which he is sitting, and with the forearm of his left hand, in which he is holding bent white gloves on a table with an officer's hat on it. A officer’s saber is painted along the left leg.