Serbian Museum of Corfu, Military museum in Corfu, Greece.
The Serbian Museum of Corfu, known in Serbian as Srpska kuća ("Serbian House"), occupies a building in the Old Town and holds photographs, uniforms, arms and ammunition, regimental flags, religious artifacts and surgical tools. The exhibits document the roughly 150,000 Serbian soldiers and the government in exile who sheltered on the island after the front collapsed in October 1915.
After the 1915 Austro-Hungarian attack, around 150,000 Serbian soldiers retreated to Corfu and established a military base there. The island became a temporary seat of government and refuge for a nation at war.
The museum's name, Srpska kuća or "Serbian house", reflects its role as a gathering point for the exiled Serbian government and army on Corfu. Among the displays are regimental flags of the Serbian army and religious artifacts carried by the soldiers and civilians who sheltered on the island after October 1915.
The museum sits in the Old Town on Moustoxidou Street, a short walk from the Liston and Spianada square, and is reached on foot through narrow pedestrian lanes. The rooms are compact, so the ten thematic sections and roughly 386 objects can be seen in a single visit without tiring.
Medical instruments used by Serbian doctors on Vido Island in 1916 are part of the collection, showing the humanitarian side of the war. Original decorations from the Serbian Kingdom are also displayed, symbolizing the continuity of a government in exile.
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