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Researches in the domain of physical anthropology began within the Archaeological Department of the museum in 1983. The Anthropological Cabinet was established in 2001.

The Cabinet deals with research of skeleton finds discovered in archaeological excavations of necropolises. Around 10,000 individual skeletons from all archaeological periods have been analysed. They come from the following prehistoric sites: Markova Sušica, Varvara and Hipodrom (Skopje), Vodovrati and Ulanci (Veles), Milci and Vardarski Rid (Gevgelija), Dedeli (Valandovo), Otošnica and Opila (Kriva Palanka), as well as the medieval ones: Demir Kapija, Viničko Kale (Vinica), Pepelište and Bistrenci (Negotino), Dunje (Prilep), Orta Džamija and Vodoča (Strumica) and Plaošnik (Ohrid).

The Anthropological Cabinet carries out reconstruction of the physical characteristics of people in the past, the paleodemographic features of the population, ethno-genetic and anthoropogenetic processes in the prehistoric and historic periods, as well as paleopathological traits of the people in Macedonia. Several long-term research projects have been carried out, such as “Anthropological Features of the Medieval Population of Crkvište – Demir Kapija”, “Anthropological Profile of the Ancient Population of Stobi” and “Medieval Population of Orta Džamija and Vodoča – Strumica”. The results have been published in four monographs and some thirty articles in scholarly magazines.

In 2004 the Museum of Macedonia staged the exhibition titled “Man in Macedonia throughout Prehistory and History". It presented skeletons of thirteen selected individuals dating from the span of the Neolithic to the Middle Ages, as well as their two- and three-dimensional reconstructions in Sculptures and Drawings.

Fanica Veljanovska, Ph.D. anthropologist

The beginnings of archaeology in Macedonia go back to 1924, when the Archaeological Museum was established in Skopje. After the World War II archaeological researches continued within the Archaeological Museum of Macedonia established in 1949. In 1977 three national museums joined in the newly established institution - the Museum of Macedonia - Archaeological, Ethnological and Historical. The primary activities of the Archaeology Department are collecting, research, protection and presentation of the archaeological treasures of the Republic of Macedonia. The permanent exhibition of the Museum of Macedonia contains archaeological artefacts collected mainly during the excavations throughout the country.

• PALAEOLITHIC
• NEOLITHIC
• ENEOLITHIC
• BRONZE AGE
• IRON AGE
• EARLY ANIQUITY
• ROMAN PERIOD
• LATE ANTIQUITY
• TERRACOTTA ICONS
• THE GREAT MIGRATIONS
• BYZANTINE-SLAVONIC PERIOD
  (Episcopal complex of Morodbison)
• SLAVONIC BYZANTINE PERIOD
• NUMISMATICS
• EPIGRAPHY
• KURŠUMLI AN

Collecting of ethnographic objects in Macedonia started in 1920, when several collections were compiled within the Faculty of Philosophy in Skopje to serve as teaching tools for the students. In 1925 a complex museum was established including an ethnographic department. During the World War II this department continued its activities within the National Museum of Macedonia, at the time, together with the archaeological department. In 1949 the ethnological department became a separate institution - Ethnological Museum of Macedonia. Since 1977 the Ethnological Museum has continued to work within the Museum of Macedonia - Archaeological, Ethnological and Historical one.

Since its establishment, the mission of the Ethnological Museum was to collect, study and preserve the ethnological cultural heritage of our country and through its exhibiting, publishing and educational activities make it accessible to the public.

Today, the museum is in possession of some18,000 ethnological objects dating from the period of 10^th to 20^th centuries.

Collections:

• FOLK COSTUMES
• TRADITIONAL JEWELLERY AND CRAFTS
• TRADITIONAL TEXTILES
• TRADITIONAL ECONOMY
• TRADITIONAL ARCHITECTURE AND WOOD-CARVING
• TRADITIONAL POTTERY
• TRADITIONAL MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS
• TRADITIONAL CUSTOMS
• WOODEN HOUSEHOLD ITEMS

Half a century existence of the Historical Museum, now the History Department of the Museum of Macedonia, started by collecting materials related to the period of the National Liberation War and continued with the period of national revolutionary movements. Gradually, the research and collecting of materials started, and the complete history of the Macedonian people, from the settling of the Slavs in the territory of Macedonia until the creation of the Macedonian state within 1944 Anti-fascist Assembly of the National Liberation of Macedonia, was covered.

Collections:

• VI TO XIV CENTURY MACEDONIA (SLAVONIC-BYZANTINE PERIOD)
• MACEDONIA UNDER OTTOMAN RULE
• CULTURAL REBIRTH
• NATIONAL REVOLUTIONARY MOVEMENT
• MACEDONIA BETWEEN THE TWO WORLD WARS
• NATIONAL LIBERATION WAR IN MACEDONIA
• SOCIALIST CONSTRUCTION OF MACEDONIA
• PHYSICAL CULTURE AND ART COLLECTION
  

The Art History Department deals with museum material dating from the Byzantine Period, Late Middle Ages, Renaissance and the 20^th century. The materials have been collected since the 1920's. Most of them have been collected in salvage activities carried out in abandoned churches and monasteries, and a smaller part has been obtained by purchasing.

Collections:

• ARCHITECTURAL DECORATIVE RELIEF
• WALL PAINTING
• ICONS
• WOOD CARVING
• APPLIED ART
• 17th AND 18th CENTURY PAINTING
• ISLAMIC ART
• FRESCO REPLICAS