28.04.2013.

Minister Vucic opens the standing exhibition in Duke Milos's Residence

On the occasion of 198 years since the start of the Second Serbian Uprising on Orthodox Palm Sunday, the first Serbian Deputy Prime Minister and Defence Minister Aleksandar Vucic, opened in the restored Duke Milos's Residence a new permanent exhibition.

Before a crowd of citizens and guests from the public, political and religious life, Minister Vucic said that Prince Milos Obrenovic, who raised the Second Serbian Uprising was the creator of the modern Serbian state that our country can be proud of.
- This is a man who invested huge effort and work, sometimes wielding sword and sometimes using his cunningness was able to win for the autonomy of Serbia and he was well aware how much we needed literacy and progress. The Minister pointed out that Obrenovic was a skilled diplomat who showed skill, prowess and knowledge, so it is no wonder that that Serbia is proud of "great Milos".

- Today we are faced with many dilemmas I am sure that the majority of people feel the same pain and problems and pressures great powers impose on us. Often left stranded and to our own devices, we are trying to, something using Milos’s knowledge and skill, as well as his courage and determination, to keep something of what is ours thus to get more and more friends and allies with whom we wish to build a modern, advanced and prosperous Serbia.

First Deputy Prime Minister said that this exhibition should serve as an example of how we have to teach our children not only history, and that we should found the future of Serbia on his deeds.

In his address to the "National Assembly", which was attended by the Minister of Justice Nikola Selakovic and advisor to the President of Serbia, Oliver Antic, the Minister of Culture Bratislav Petkovic reminded the present of the religious and historical aspect of Palm Sunday, when Christ with his disciples entered Jerusalem, "which was the announcement of his passion week full of suffering and the announcement of the resurrection, " thus the Second Serbian Uprising is a sort of a resurrection.

He recalled that the Konak dates back to 1831 when it was built by Milos Obrenovic.
- It is here before you today that I testify about the difficult and heroic days of struggle for independence of the Serbian state, the ones history has not yet had its final word and that struggle, in part still continues.

First Deputy Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic with his hosts, visited the entire exhibition composed of two permanent and one temporary exhibitions,.

At the side of the ground floor of Duke Milos’s Residence an exhibition "Life in Serbia in the XIX c, "which describes life in the Serbian civil and rural household at the time of the Ottoman Empire has been set up while the first floor is devoted to the constant exhibition of Milos Obrenovic.
In the central part of the ground floor, where temporary exhibitions will be held , as of today exhibition "Images of the Serbian revolution", dedicated to the First Serbian Uprising, which marked the process of liberation from centuries of Ottoman rule and the creation of the modern Serbian state.

This part of the exhibition features Karadjordje’s seal, its cannon cast back in Belgrade in 1811. The well-known work "The assembly on Orasac” byVeljko Stanojevic, "Lighting up inns" by Bozidar Prodanovic, and "Death of Karadjordje" by Hungarian painter Tan Mor.

the Artistic Ensemble of the Ministry of Defence "Stanislav Binicki" and Ensemble "Kolo added to the whole festive tone of the event.