Description
MATICA SRPSKA is the oldest Serbian literary, scientific and cultural society, founded in 1826 in Pest. Its foundation was preceded by the launch of the Letopis Matice srpske (Matica Srpska Chronicle) in 1824. From the very beginning, its activities were aimed at presenting Serbian culture in Europe, and on the other hand, at educating the people. In 1864, Matica Srpska moved to Novi Sad, but its field of activity has always been in all areas where Serbs live, “now, and henceforth, forever and ever”. Many contributors and benefactors have supported the work of Matica Srpska as a central cultural institution throughout its two-hundred-year history. The scholarships of the Matica Srpska endowment have produced a large number of prominent Serbian scientists, cultural workers and artists.
Today, Matica Srpska has around 3,000 associates. They are involved in dozens of scientific and development projects, within the Department of Literature and Language, the Lexicographic Department, the Department of Social Sciences, the Department of Natural Sciences, the Department of Fine Arts, the Department of Performing Arts and Music, and the Manuscript Department. Associates prepare contributions for ten of Matica’s scientific journals and work on the preparation of publications of capital importance for Serbian culture and science, such as the Serbian Encyclopaedia, the Serbian Biographical Dictionary, the Dictionary of the Serbian Language, The Serbian Language Orthography, and others. Matica awards a large number of awards, one of the most significant of which is the “Zmaj Award” for poetry in the Serbian language. Matica Srpska, with the institutions it founded: the Matica Srpska Library, the Gallery of Matica Srpska, and the Matica Srpska Publishing Centre, forms a complex system that uniquely works on the idea of knowledge, enlightenment, and science as the foundation of all kinds of progress of the Serbian people.
Professional cooperation on the issue: Jelena Veselinov, PhD, Manager of Affairs of Matica Srpska; Danilo Vuksanović, PhD, Assistant Director of the Gallery of Matica Srpska
Artistic realization of the issue: MA Anamari Banjac, academic painter
