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was a holder of the archeological excavations in the port of St. Peter Church
in Novi Pazar. The Museum established cooperation with numerous insti-
tutions in the country and region, and it became desirable again for mutual
work and realization of mutual projects.
Seventy years of its existence and work, the Museum marked with
its everyday activities, lasting for a month, from 27 May until 27 June,
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2022. Starting with the Museum exhibition, the activities continued with
presentations, workshops, round table discussions, conferences, promotions
and finished again with the exhibition of “70 Years of the Museum Work”,
and the solemn academy organized at the Museum yard. For its work, only
in the last several years, the Museum received recognitions and awards by
the most significant institutions, starting from the National Museum of Ser-
bia, organization of Museums for 10, until General Consulate of the Re-
public of Turkey in Novi Pazar, and this year, the Museum received award
by the Museum Association of Serbia. Most of the projects are supported
by the Museum, in the first place, the Ministry of Culture and Information
of the Republic of Serbia, then the Turkish Agency for Coordination and
Cooperation TIKA, and certainly, the City of Novi Pazar and Bosniac Na-
tional Council. In this year 2022, we started and realized a lot of significant
projects, from conservation of the Ottoman city clothing and households,
workshops of calligraphy writing, continuation of education of the youth on
the significance of conservation of non-material cultural heritage, transcrip-
tions, translations and digitalization of the texts on the Sanjak of Novi Pazar
in the official annuals of the Bosnian Vilayet, researches and presentations
of the monuments of the Islamic Architecture in the territory of the City of
Novi Pazar through workshops and monographs and similar.
The exhibition activity of the Museum was very contents full in this
year, from panting exhibitions by the local prominent academic painters to
domestic and guest Museum exhibitions. Together with the General Consu-
late of the Republic of Turkey in Novi Pazar, with the exhibition of paintings
and artistic program, it was marked 15 July – the Day of Democracy”. The
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Museum enriched its painting collection by buying and gifting for dozens of
significant artistic and painting pieces of work. Within the organization of
the exhibition, within its printing, there was the Catalogue of the Monograph
“Sanjak in the Foreign Cartoons and Art Work at the End of 19 until Mid-
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dle of 20 Century” by Damir Gruda, and due to the International Year of
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Sulejman Celebija (1351–1422), the author of the first Mevlud, proclaimed
by the UNESCO and TÜRKSOY, The Museum published “Mevlud of Novi
Pazar Literature and Scientific Author Vehbija Hodzic (1916–1977). By pre-
senting its publishing activity, the Museum published bibliography of all
of its publications, but also the bibliography of works of the first Museum