Archaeological Museum of Macedonia. The beginnings bind to the archaeological department in the museum of southern Serbia (1924), with Lapidarium in Kurshumli An. At the time of the fascist occupation of Macedonia, he is part of the reorganized National Museum (1942), who was destroyed in the bombing of Skopje. After the liberation continues as a department in the newly established National Museum of Macedonia, open on May 1, 1946. Later, with the reorganization (1949), it was transformed into an archaeological museum of Macedonia. By 1952 Works in the same setting in the Archaeological Museum, Skopje building with the Ethnographic Museum, and in 1953 it moves into the former barracks of the Kale fortress, which the earthquake (1963) demolves. By 1976 The museum continues to work in part of the cells of the reconstructed Kursumli An and in a shed built in his yard. In 1977 Together with the ethnological and historical museum, it moves in today’s museum building and join in an organization – SIST Museums of Macedonia. By 1984 Am, together with his medieval collection, realized several archaeological research (in Demir Kapija, Stobi, Isar-Marvinci), collected data on the archaeological topography of Macedonia, etc. He arrived exhibitions dedicated to medieval wall painting and iconography, and with copies of frescoes he participated in the exhibition for medieval art arranged in Paris (1950). He issued his “Proceedings of the Archaeological Museum of Macedonia” (11 numbers). In 1982 It regulates the permanent archaeological exhibition “Macedonia from the prehistory to the arrival of the Slavs”. With the last reorganization of SIST in the Museum of Macedonia (1984), the Archaeological Museum loses its autonomy and returns to the status of 1949. – As an archaeological department. Lit.: S.
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Кириличен напис АРХЕОЛОШКИ МУЗЕЈ НА МАКЕДОНИЈА