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INTRODUCTORY
Fuad Baćićanin

SEVENTY YEARS OF DURATION AND WORK:
A LONG STORY AND A SHORT HISTORY

Seventy years ago, on 27th June1952, City Museum was established
in Novi Pazar. A half century ago, at the time, Hometown Museum in Novi
Pazar, defined its publishing work, the first one in the town of Novi Pazar,
it even published its first book. The Museum published numerous valuable
works since then from Archeology, History, Art, Literature, Oriental Art,
works of old manuscript Museum Collection and other scientific and expert
publications. A half century ago, the same Museum, started with its exhi-
bition activities and organized numerous exhibitions from all areas of the
Museum work. A half a century ago, it started with Archeology researches
in its own organization. Forty-five years ago, the Museum also published its
first issue of the journal Novi Pazar Collection of Works, the only scientific
journal back then, and today, the only journal being published continuously
from its first issue in the territory of the city of Novi Pazar and a broader re-
gion. Five years ago, it was renamed into “RAS” Museum of Novi Pazar, it
formed its Museum library, the first special library in the territory of Serbia,
out of the city of Belgrade, being joined to the unique library system.
The Museum started a serious work in the last years in digitaliza-
tion of its material, numerous manuscript documents are translated from
the Arabic language, Persian, Church Slovenic, Ottoman language, but also
the texts in the Bosnian and Serbian languages, written in the modified Ar-
abic language-Arabica. The journal of Novi Pazar Collection of Works is
also digitalized, being researched per several parameters, and its use in the
scientific use became available to a broader population. Another Museum
journal is also digitized Sopoćanska vidjenja (Views of Sopocani), being
first issued in 1982, and the last issue was in 1990. For the first time after its
establishment, the revision of the Museum exponents was performed and it
was determined what is being exposed in the permanent conservation of the
Museum. By making the Museum mobile application, the Museum activi-
ties and all its digitalized material is reproached closer to the youth. There
are numerous archeological excavations, in front of the building of the Dis-
trict Court, in the north tower of the Novi Pazar Fortress, in the location of
Dublje and numerous other locations, and for the first time, the Museum