The Historical Museum of Serbia is a complex museum complex with the task of collecting, preserving, studying, professionally and scientifically processing material testimonies of the history of Serbia, maintaining and completing museum collections, as well as information and documentation about them and makes them accessible to the public. The task of the Museum is to articulate and interpret the knowledge of the past of Serbia and the Serbian people, as well as other peoples and cultures on the territory of Serbia in a responsible and expert way through museum settings, and it accomplishes public communication with the national historical heritage.
The establishment of the Museum has run in several stages. The first attempt, which was not realized, was made in 1950 by the adoption of the Regulation on the Establishment of the Historical Museum of the Republic of Serbia. The second attempt was made in 1954 on the occasion of marking the 150th anniversary of the rise of the First Serbian Uprising, when an exhibition dedicated to this topic was made, which was later transferred to Prince Miloš Obrenović's Prince in Topčider. Thus, the Museum of the First Serbian Uprising was formed, the concept of which was based on the processing of materials of the First (1804-1813) and the Second Serbian Uprising (1815) as an event of great importance for the Serbian people, which began the process of establishing a modern Serbian state and its recognition as an independent international entity. It only confirmed that it was ideologically recognizable and acceptable for the authorities of the uprising-revolutionary mile.
