City Museum of Mitrovica
Town museum with Illyrian to Ottoman archaeology and a large ethnographic collection from the Ibar valley.
The City Museum of Mitrovica was founded in 1952 and occupies the former House of the Yugoslav Army in the centre of the town, a solid inter-war block near the Ibar. Mitrovica grew on the mining of the Trepca deposits and on the railway, and the museum sets out to record both that industrial history and the much older settlement of the valley, which was a route between the Kosovo plain and the Serbian interior.
The archaeological holdings run to more than a thousand objects, from Neolithic pottery found in the surrounding hills through Illyrian and Dardanian metalwork to Roman coins and glass and medieval material. A second department of some eight hundred ethnographic pieces covers costume, jewellery, looms, tools and household objects from the different communities of the district. The museum also mounts temporary exhibitions, among them recent shows on rural life in the villages above the town.
Highlights
- Founded in 1952 in the former House of the Yugoslav Army
- More than a thousand archaeological finds from Neolithic to medieval
- Around eight hundred ethnographic objects from the Ibar valley
- Changing exhibitions on local and regional history
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