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ZAJEČAR − CAPITAL OF SERBIAN EAST
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Central Library “Sve to zar Mar ko vić”
Data on the first book subscribers in Zaječar, Vražogrnac
and neighboring places recorded only one year after the liberation
from Turks, also indicated the existence of first private
libraries at that time. However, the first public library
would appear only a few decades after. Distant predecessor
of today’s Central Library “Sve to zar Mar ko vić” was the
Reading Room, founded on January 22, 1866 (some sources
say that it was founded in 1860), whose fund was completely
destroyed in the Serbian-Turkey War from 1876-1878. It was
later restored and again, and for a long time, it was a cultural
centre in Zaječar.
Za je čar got first Public Library, located In the Gymnasium
building, after several failed attempts, in 1909. When
after the occupation of Serbia in 1915 the school was closed,
the same happened to the Library. During World War One,
all the books disappeared from its shelves. There is no
data of the Library being restored between the world wars,
but it is known that other bookstores and reading rooms
were working.
Two and a half months after the liberation in 1944, the
city finally got its Library again. Today it has 100,000 books,
a magazine section, CD library, reading room with 70 seats,
computer system, 3,500 members enrolling each year. It is
also conducting publishing activity, popularization of books
at promotions, literary evenings, lectures and exhibitions.
For more than thre decades it has been organizing manifestation
“Flower in the Word, Flower in the Image”, a review of
children’s literary and art work.
National Museum
Decades before the initiative to found a museum was officially
launched in Zaječar, there had already been an interest
for that. It was expressed by Gymnasium professors,
many of whom were involved in scientific and research work.
Thanks to them, a small museum was opened in the 1920’s at
the school, with archaeological and geological-mining collections
(partly destroyed during World War Two, partly scattered
in a later period).
The initiative to establish a museum was launched very
soon after the liberation in 1944, but it was not going to be
realized until 1951. Initially established as a hometown collection,
in time the Museum has grown into a complex institution,
with departments of archaeology, history, art history
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Central Library
“Sve to zar
Mar ko vić”
in Zaječar
Building of the
National Museum,
one of the symbols
of the city
Cemetery and
Hiding place
At the site Pi šura
če sma, on the
eastern outskirts of
present-day Za ječa
r, a cemetery (with
urns) and the oldest
traces of a settlement
in this town were
discovered. They date
from the 14 th century
B.C. “Hiding places
for precious assets,
probably buried
during the threat of
war”, date from the
Iron Age, the last in
prehistory. At that
time, in Zlotska Cave,
there was a settlement
made of logs
where bronze and
iron tools were made.
The most important
findings are kept in
the National Museum
of Za je ča r.