MILITARY MUSEUM IN THE BUILDING OF ENGINEER MILITARY BASE
21.10.2014

The Mayor of Nis, Prof. Dr. Zoran Perisic, after the meeting with the representatives of the Military Museum and the Museum of Aviation in Belgrade and the Ministry of Defence (10.23.2014.), said that the agreement was reached that the military barrack base "Filip Kljajić" (Engineering barracks) which is located on the territory Palilula, will be converted to the Military Museum. "The City of Niš does not have Military Museum and the suggestion is that perhaps certain future activities of the Military Museum and the National Museum in Nis unify the space and the barracks, Perisic said to the reporters. The meeting was attended by Boban Džunić, president of Palilula Municipality and PhD Mile Ilic, Mayor of Nis. Military Museum in Niš should be opened in 2018 to mark the 100th Anniversary of the liberation of the First World War.

Engineering Base is one of the most important and the most monumental military facility in Nis. It was built at the turn of the 19th to the 20th century and it was built by the project architect and Danilo Vladisavljevic (1871-1923), who from 1898 to 1921, was the architect of the Army of Serbia. Engineering Barracks is the most significant achievement of the famous architect, who, among other things, designed by the Belgrade Military Hospital, the building of the Export Bank on Terazije and Transfer bank in Knez Mihajlova street. The cornerstone of the Engineer barracks was set on June 10, 1899, in ceremonies attended by King Obrenovic and his father, King Milan, the liberator Nis. The construction of barracks was completed in the fall of 1900. This building represents an exception to the then prevailing styles in architecture Serbia at the turn of the 20th century. It was built in the spirit of romantic architecture.

Engineering barracks represents also new, refreshing and artistic progress, not only for Nis, but also the entire Serbian architecture. It was built for military purposes, it symbolizes a military facility - a castle, with rectangular, polygonal towers, the protrusions on the top of the ridges on the top floor. Stylistic features, extraordinary plasticity and monumentality, make Engineering building base one of the "clearest romantic objects" in modern architecture Serbia.