The house of Đura Jakšić, now a museum, has changed owners and functions many times. After the death of Dionisije Jakšić it was inherited by his youngest son, Venijamin, a priest in Crnja. After Venijamin's death the house became state property. The first library and reading room in Srpska Crnja were opened in it in 1919. The first decision to set up a museum in memory of Đura Jakšić was passed on 5 December 1944, but it was not carried out at that time. The museum was opened on 5 October 1952. The birthplace of Đura Jakšić has been protected at national level since 1956. The exhibition space of the museum consists of three rooms. The exhibition was arranged by the Zrenjanin National Museum in 1981 in such a way as to reflect consistently the complex personality of the greatest Serbian painter and poet of Romanticism. Approximately 400 documentary items – photographic copies, photocopies and colour reproductions – present the life and work of Đura Jakšić through concise descriptions on labels; the original documents are kept in the archives of Novi Sad, Kragujevac, Požarevac and Svetozarevo (Jagodina) and in the Belgrade City Museum, while the paintings are in the Gallery of Matica Srpska in Novi Sad, in the National Museum in Belgrade and in Zrenjanin.
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