8 – 27 JUNE
Organised by: the Mountaineering Association of Serbia
The roots of Serbian mountaineering can be traced back to the scientific and exploratory study of nature. Among its predecessors, Academician Josif Pančić can be highlighted, as well as Academician Ljuba Nenadović and Academician Milan Đ. Milićević. It is through their actions that the foundations were laid for viewing the mountain as a place of learning, freedom, and spiritual awakening.
Together with several students of Academician Josif Pančić, Academician Jovan Žujović founded the Serbian Mountaineering Society in Belgrade on 9 June 1901, giving the movement its first institutional framework.
The Serbian Mountaineering Society, later renamed the Mountaineering Association of Serbia, has comprised 29 academicians-mountaineers. This exhibition is dedicated to their lives and works and showcases their professional and mountaineering biographies along with accompanying archival records.
The exhibition will also feature one ‘living’ specimen of Pančić’s spruce (Picea omorika).