National Museum Zaječar

The museum was founded on March 27, 1951, as the City Museum by the Council for Education and Culture of the Zaječar city government in a small building on Dositejeva Street for the "research and preservation of cultural heritage of Zaječar County".

At the end of 1951, it moved to the present building, which was constructed in 1927 for the Military Institute of Road Design.

[1] Initially, the museum's collection was mostly photographs, World War II era documents, and "a dozen of archeological objects" that were discovered during agricultural activities.

[1] This department holds 5000 objects from Zaječar and Eastern Serbia and includes jewelry, distaffs, belts, socks, and gloves.

It holds over 1,000 pieces, including works of Vera Božičković Popović, Olja Ivanjicki, Leonid Šejka, Velizar Krstić, Aleksandar Luković Lukijan, Dragan Mojović, Živojin Turinski, Ljubica Cuca Sokić, Frano Mengelo Dinčić, Mira and Sava Sandić, many paintings by Dušan Adamović, and Anatolij Bajev, a Russian emigre who lived in Zaječar in 1930s.