Exhibits |
Belo brdo 17
Phone: 8065-334, 8066-340
If you would like
to visit the
archeological site, please contact
Mr Dragan Janković
(phone numbers: 8065-334, 8066-340).
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Not
far away from Belgrade, on the right bank of the Danube, in Vinča
village, there is an eponymous site of the Vinča culture. The Vinča
culture was established on the vast expanses of the southeast Europe,
c. 5.000 BC, based on the
tradition of the previous, Starčevo culture. The profile of cultural
layers in Vinča, some 10 meters high, visible from the Danube bank,
is a historical equivalent of more than 1.000 years of existence. It
is a testimony of the establishment and amazing rise, but also of
disintegration of the culture in which an entire epoch in the human
evolution – the European Neolithic – has reached its prime. The
Vinča culture and its eponymous site are an unavoidable element in
the establishment and development of the early European civilization.
Professor Miloje Vasić undertook the first archaeological excavation
in Vinča in 1908, where he worked until 1934. Material from these
excavations is stored in the Archaeological Collection at the Faculty
of Philosophy, and in the National Museum. Archaeological research
today is managed by a Committee on the Vinca Archaeological
Excavations, established by the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts,
while the Belgrade City Museum takes an active part in the project,
administers the site, and takes care of the museum material. There is
a small informative exhibition at the site, and an archaeological camp
is organized as well. Archaeological
research is done each year on the site. Educational activities are
also planned there. |