Museum in Bački Petrovac
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The Museum of Vojvodina Slovaks (Serbian: Музеј војвођанских Словака, Muzej vojvođanskih Slovaka; Slovak: Múzeum vojvodinských Slovákov) in Bački Petrovac in Serbian province of Vojvodina, is the central museum institution of the Slovaks in Serbia. Under its current name and with its contemporary mission the museum was established in 2012 as the direct successor of the Museum of Bački Petrovac. The museum's mission is to study, document, present, and preserve ethnological, historical, and artistic artifacts related to the Slovak community in Vojvodina.
The initiative to create a museum dedicated to the Slovak minority in the former Yugoslavia began in 1946, led by Matica slovenská during preparations for an exhibition at the Slovak National Festival. In 1949, the Slovak Museum in Yugoslavia officially opened in Bački Petrovac, showcasing artifacts such as traditional Slovak rooms and tools related to flax processing and brewing. Over the decades, the museum evolved to focus on cultural and historical collections, despite challenges during the 1990s. It reopened to the public in 2004.
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