Gallery of Matica Srpska
Novi Sad art museum tracing Serbian painting from the 16th to the 20th century.
The Gallery of Matica Srpska was founded on 14 October 1847 within the learned society Matica srpska, then based in Pest, and grew from bequests made by Sava Tekelija and other Serbian benefactors. The collection moved with the society to Novi Sad and opened to the public in the city in the 1930s. Since 1958 the gallery has operated as an independent museum, and it is regarded as the principal collection of Serbian fine art, with holdings of more than 7,000 paintings alongside drawings, prints and sculpture.
The gallery occupies a building on Gallery Square in the centre of Novi Sad, listed as a cultural monument of great importance in 1979. Its permanent display is arranged chronologically over three floors, covering religious painting and icons, the late Baroque of the eighteenth century, the Romantic and Realist portraiture of the nineteenth, and the modernism of the early twentieth century. Temporary exhibitions, Friday evening events and weekend curator-led tours run alongside the permanent display.
Highlights
- More than 7,000 paintings of Serbian art from the 16th century onwards
- Chronological permanent display across three floors
- Works by Paja Jovanović, Uroš Predić and Novak Radonić
- Curator-led tours at weekends and Friday evening programmes
