Collection of archives

The archive collection includes historical sources that mostly cover the period from 1941 to 1945, and a smaller number refers to the First World War and the time after 1946. The fund contains a variety of materials that talk about military, political and social life, related to personalities and events in the 20th century. Within the Collection of Archives there are posters, leaflets, brochures, newsletters, IDs, telegrams, military cards, personal and official documents that represent historical evidence of the time of the occupation of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia during the Second World War. There are also special archival collections represented, consisting of war diaries, diary entries, individual letters and correspondence as a whole, diplomatic files and newspaper clippings. This precious museum material provides an insight into everyday private and social life and depicts the history of the Serbian people. The tradition of collecting items in the Military Museum has been going on since its foundation, so the fund has been enriched in recent years with written historical sources related to the life of Duke Radomir Putnik. Most of the archival materials arrived at the Military Museum as gifts or purchases. The variety, number and rarity of the items from the Collection of Archivals, due to their importance, have an important place within the national cultural heritage.

The collection is handled by: Aleksandra Tmušić