1985.
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- Музеј Младеновца је у саставу Музеја града Београда
It had long been believed that the City Museum was officially established in 1929, together with the library. Since different dates had been used in various sources and the beginning of the Museum’s activities had been put into relation with various legal acts, an expert commission was established to clear the problem up. It undertook an archival investigation because, according to the Regulation on the Registration of Self-Funded Institutions, it was necessary to provide the date of founding (Official Gazette of the Federal People’s Republic of Yugoslavia No. 27/55). After comprehensive investigation, which also involved people who did not work at the Museum (Miodrag Dželebdžić, who worked at the Belgrade City Institute for the Protection of Cultural Monuments, kept on researching the subject), the Museum submitted an application to be entered into the Register of Institutions. Under point one of the application No. 206/3 of December 1, 1964, it was stated that the Belgrade City Museum had been founded by the Belgrade Municipality on October 15, 1903.
The register entry with the Trade Court in Belgrade (on the 41st registration leaf, volume I, in compliance with the Decision Us-89/65) as of October 16, 1965, states that the “Belgrade City Museum, No. Zmaj Jovina Street, was founded by the Belgrade Municipality on October 15, 1903, O No.24, vol. 1, p. 276”.Following the change of the Constitution, the new Statutes of the Museum was adopted. It introduced new internal organization and job systematization, according to which the Museum was to include 11 units with 21 departments.
The newly established Memorial Museum of Jovan Cvijić was also incorporated into the Belgrade City Museum. Its permanent exhibition was set up three years later.
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One of the first legators of the City of Belgrade was sculptor and academician Toma Rosandić (1878–1958). In his will made on July 8, 1955, he bequeathed his movable and immovable property to the City of Belgrade. It was his express wish that the house, together with the works of art bequeathed to the city, be used as a museum. Although the Museum of Toma Rosandić was incorporated into the Belgrade City Museum already in 1956, due to the lack of financial means the preparations to open it to public had to be delayed. In the meantime, until the permanent exhibition in the Museum of Toma Rosandić was finally set up, the bequeathed objects had been presented to public only as part of other exhibitions. After long preparations, the Museum of Toma Rosandić was inaugurated in December 1963. In accordance with the artist’s will, the permanent exhibition was housed in his home at Senjak, in the genuine environment in which he worked. The Museum of Toma Rosandić encompasses nearly 700 pieces of sculpture, sculpting tools, works of applied art, pieces of furniture, correspondence and personal documents.
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