Description of the attraction
Sirogojno is a small mountain village located near the town of Zlatibor. At the end of the 70s of the last century, the museum "Staro Selo" was opened there. In fact, this is an open-air museum, an ethnographic settlement in which the traditional crafts of the Serbs are preserved - wooden house-building, knitting, blacksmithing, cooper's, pottery, weaving and other crafts. Here you can also see the traditional for these places in the past, the organization of the household, household items, attend master classes, concerts of folk music, exhibitions and other cultural and educational events.
The village of Sirogoino has been known since the end of the 15th century. The inhabitants of these places built brvnars for themselves - log houses on stone basements under thatched roofs. Each residential building on a hill was surrounded by outbuildings and smaller houses in which the married sons of the owner of the house lived. Among these outbuildings were premises for fruit drying (mishana), rakia production (barn), milk storage (milk), corn warehouse (salash), bakery and others. Nowadays, two such estates and a shepherd's hut have survived in Sirogoino, one of the features of which was a koutier - a bed placed on runners, a kind of mobile “house” of a shepherd.
The women who lived in Sirogoino have long been famous for their ability to knit warm and durable things from sheep's wool. In the second half of the last century, the clothes they created were considered one of the brands of Yugoslavia, also known outside the country. The name of the fashion designer Dobrila Smilyanich is associated with this craft, who once created a cooperative of knitters in Sirogoino. In the ethnic village, this craft is represented in the Museum of Knitters, and knitted sweaters and other items can be purchased.
In addition to estates, huts and workshops, in Sirogoino there is the Church of the Holy Apostles Peter and Paul, erected in the second half of the 18th century, there is a tavern and a hotel, souvenir shops. "Staro Selo" in Sirogojno is the only open-air museum in Serbia. The museum complex is protected by the state as a particularly important landmark.
