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Founded in 1948, the museum preserves in its permanent exhibit the traces of history and secrets of the civilizations which have settled in our region from eight thousand years ago to the present day.
The following fall within the scope of the National Museum of Leskovac: the City hall – an example of a house built in the Balkan oriental style which presents the life of the people of Leskovac from the beginning of the 20th Century; the Textile museum in Strojkovac, a unique building which safeguards the secret of the beginning of the textile industry in Serbia; and the archaeological site of Justiniana Prima, the magnificent city from the mid-6th Century, the archbishopric and the legacy of the Early Byzantine emperor Justinian I, the last Roman emperor born on the territory of Serbia.
The textile museum in Strojkovac is located in a Turkish mill built in the 19th Century. The people of Leskovac opened the first braid factory in the mill in 1884. The mill was bought in 1959 from its owner, restored and spindles from the Leskovac textile factory are exhibited in...
The emergence and development of the textile industry in Strojkovac represents the emergence and development of the first textile industry in Serbia as a whole. The braid factory in Strojkovac and its branch in Vučje employed 24 workers in 1889. The buildings were used for braid production until 1896 after...
