Ras Museum Novi Pazar, Regional museum in Novi Pazar, Serbia
Description
The Ras Museum operates from a restored 19th-century building that originally served as a Turkish gymnasium with exhibition halls distributed across two floors. Its collections span archaeological discoveries, ethnographic objects, historical documents, and applied arts from the Raška and Sandžak regions.
History
The institution was founded in 1953 as the City Museum and relocated to its current building in 1957 under its new name. This move enabled the preservation of a significantly larger and more diverse collection of objects from local history.
Culture
The collections reveal how people dressed and lived in this region over centuries through displayed clothing, crafts, and household items. Walking through the exhibition halls shows the daily practices and skills that shaped community life.
Practical
The museum is centrally located and accessible on foot, with exhibitions spread across both floors of the building. Plan to spend adequate time exploring all sections, as the collection is substantial and requires unhurried viewing.
Did you know?
The museum displays the skeleton of an Iron Age warrior, a discovery that offers insights into prehistoric combat practices. The collection also holds rare written documents in Arabic, Hebrew, and Old Church Slavonic that reveal the region's historical diversity.
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