Fibula with wild birds

Department of archeology together with the numismatic collection originated from the 1885 decision of the town authorities on founding  the town museum. This was at first executed by putting up some sort of lapidary in the town’s only park. Some of  these stone monuments can be seen in the park even today.

History of Sirmium and its popularization owes a great deal to the Sremska Mitrovica’s most famous  archaeologist, late doctor of archaeology  Petar Milosevic.

Department of archeology collects, keeps and  researches on the movable material from prehistoric, antique and middle ages from Sirmium and surrounding territory of Srem. Thousand of objects and fragments were collected by the way of systematic archaeological excavation of Sirmium, which commenced in 1957 under the supervision of the greatly deserved archaeologist Miodrag Grbic.

Sometimes material was found accidentally or bought from a finder. Sometimes material was even given as a present to the Museum.

All the material is sorted in three collections:

PREHISTORIC COLLECTION

Life and the first society from Neolithic times until the settlement of the Celtic tribe in the 4^th century BC is shown through variety of archaeological objects : stone axes, bone objects, bronze age vessels, hoards from the time of the beginning of the iron age.

ANTIQUE COLLECTION

Fascinating history of the Roman town of Sirmium and surrounding area presented through remarkable material including artistic objects, jewellery, military equipment, agricultural implements, medical instruments that were all the evidence of life in the town that was at its highest point one of the four capitols of the Roman empire.

MIDDLE AGES COLLECTION

Stormy times of the great migration of the early middle  ages - with Germanic and Avaric material, and period of the permanent settlement of Slavonic tribes in our region mainly with the material from the graves in Macvanska Mitrovica.

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