The Kikinda National Museum was founded on 7 November 1946 as a museum of the complex type. It is housed in the building of the former Magistrate of the Great Kikinda District, where it occupies 2,080 m². The museum has six departments – archaeology, ethnology, history, natural history and art, with a gallery – and a total of 25,000 exhibits. The activity of the museum is limited to the territory of the municipalities of Kikinda, Čoka and Ada. One of the best-preserved original mammoth skeletons in Europe has been kept here since 2006. The museum also contains the first 3D cinema in Serbia, the Club of Friends of the Museum, a concert hall and a souvenir shop.
Kurija (Latin for "courtroom") is a monumental building dominating the central square, once the seat of the Great Kikinda District and of the Royal Court. It was built between 1835 and 1839 and has since witnessed historical, political and cultural events in Kikinda, among them the national uprising of 1848, the trial of Jovan Popović and a group of young poets in 1930, the shooting of hostages by fascists in 1942 and the imprisonment of well-known public figures of the region, but also the receptions for the Austro-Hungarian Emperor Franz Joseph and the Serbian king-regent Aleksandar.