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Aca Stanojević's bedWhen one comes to the Town Museum, he enters through a wooden porch where a garden set is exposed – a table with wicker Tonet chairs. This space leads into a long hallway in which, there are personal belongings of Aca Stanojević wooden display cabinets, as well as parts of his library, photographs, documents related to the work of the National Radical Party and his personal correspondence. From the hallway to the left there is Stanojević's study with his writing desk, a decorative table, photos and paintings, among which is the portrait of Aca Stanojević, a work of an artist from Knjaževac Dragoljub Sandić. To the right from the hallway one can go into the dining room where a dresser in the style of neoclassicism and a table with six wooden chairs from Vienna with the characteristics of Art Nouveau, closet decorated with carving, the tabernacle, the icon of St. Returns - Cosmas and Damian, portraits of Sara and Gavra Aničić, Stanojević's friends and accomplices in the Timok Rebellion in 1883, works of the Knjaževac painter Milisav Marković from the late XIX century and the phonograph with a horn are exhibited. One can go from the dining room into the bedroom where richly decorated wardrobe, bed with ornamental elements carved in the neo-Renaissance style, set for washing with additional objects made of porcelain in the Art Nouveau style, leather suitcase Aca Stanojević with his initials, an umbrella with a gilded handle and garments of the early XX century are exhibited.

 

Aca Stanojević's glass with initials

 

From the bedroom, but also the right from the hallway, one can go into the central part of the house - salon for receptions, where household objects such as parlor furniture, wall mirrors and other objects in the renaissance style, a carpet from the era of Napoleon III, the gander furnace, the icon of Blessed Marry and Jesus Christ, the work of the Knjaževac painter Milisav Marković from late XX century are exhibited. From the collection a turntable with a horn from the beginning of the XX century, the draper form Palace in Cetinje, table lamps, dishes made of porcelain and glass from the late XIX century, a "Philips" radio and part of the library of Aca Stanojević should be ephasised.

The lower floor is a space that was previously used for a variety of programs. The first gallery in Knjaževac was opened there and was used as a salon for weddings. This part was used for organizing literary and cultural evenings, ceremonial signing of contracts and for holding lectures or conferences. Today this area is being reconstructed in order to form a display area in which a new permanent exhibition will be opened, in order to display the rich applied and fine arts collections of the Homeland Museum of Knjaževac.