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Manak's House ::: |
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About Manak's HouseManak's house is the architectural monument of great cultural value. Today it is a division of Ethnographic Museum of Serbia keeping and exhibiting the legacy "Ethnographic memorial collection of Hristifor Crnilović". |
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| Curator: Dragana Stojković Contact: dstojkovic@etnomuzej.co.yu |
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| This collection is actually a museum in itself, since it contains some 2, 600 items of considerable cultural value, 1, 617 negatives-plates of items from this collection and items recorded during field work, about 23, 000 pages of manuscripts and over 700 historic and ethnographic books and magazines. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
 Hristifor Crnilović |
For the most part the collection consists of costumes and jewellery. Folk costumes, rural and urban, originate mainly from the region of south Serbia, Kosovo and Macedonia. Majority of items belonged to Serbian and Macedonian people. The collection is supplemented by pieces of embroidery, textile, towels, bags, Pirot kilims, household items etc. A special place is given to jewellery, especially the one worn on head: diadems, 'počelica', 'tepeluk', needles, earrings, hairpins, and underchins. The most precious jewellery piece is an earring from 14th century. Significant parts of collection are parts of houses and their household: carved pieces of urban interior architecture, kits for weaving, writing and smoking, musical instruments, vessels of ceramic, faience, wood and metal. Collection contains tools used by terzija, kujundžija -filigree and other crafts. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
 Women costume, Vlasina, 19th century |
Manak's house was built in 1830 in Savamala Street. It was named after its owner Manak Mihailović, a Tzintzar immigrant from Macedonia, and located by the old road that used to join Varos gate and
Savamala. The site on which it was raised conditioned its irregular shape. The house had a basement made of stone, ground floor and first floor built in wood construction system. The ground floor was occupied by a tavern and baker's shop, and on the first floor there were residential rooms of the owner. Such a layout of the interior and characteristic nails used in construction, exemplify a typical house of Balkan building tradition. Manak's house became museum after conservation and restoration works done purposely by Belgrade Institute for Protection of Cultural Monuments, from 1964 to 1968, in order to place Crnilović's collection here. Thenceforth, on the first floor of Manak's house there is a permanent exhibition entitled "Folk costumes of Central Balkan region from 19th century and first decades of 20th century". It exhibits items from Šop, Morava and Vardar regions. |
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The ground floor of the house is occupied by workshops for teaching old crafts and national handiworks. Programs are conceived in form of courses, which include several months long theoretic lectures followed by practice, and they are based on curriculum of art academies. The greatest interest is for weaving and pottery courses. Programs are self-financed and intended for adults regardless of years and vocation. Lecturers are renowned artists from Faculty of Applied Sciences. Having finished the course, every trainee obtains a certificate and an opportunity to take part on a joined exhibition. |
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