The Jokanovic’s House
Jokanovica Kuca was the property of the one of the richest merchant families of Užice in the second half of XIX century- the Jokanovics family. It is also known under the name “peccara” (The Jokanovics family traded, besides other things, with wine and brandy and owned a couple of inns in Užice).
This house is one of the rare representative houses from XIX century, not only in Užice but wider as well. Due to its emphasized ethnography characteristics, the building has been declared a national cultural heritage.
Jokanovica Kuca is in the very center of the town, next to the City Art gallery. There is a museum exhibition of ambient character under the title:”City House in Užice in the XIX and the beginning of XX century”. Within this exhibition it is able to be seen the total transformation of Užice from the oriental settlement “sheher” into the Serbian small town.
The exhibition consists of three ambient parts (three interiors): the first one, so-called “Oriental Room” where you can see the way citizen of Užice lived in XIX century. “Maiden’s – City Room” shows the beginning of the new “Serbian” time, when after the liberation against the Turks, Serbian craftsmen and merchants needed more comfortable things and flats, European suits, jewelry etc.
The saloon of the town house from the end of XIX and the beginning of XX century depicts time when in Užice started distinctive separation of rich class people, the merchants, who wanted to show their wealth by living under luxurious conditions
Opening Hours 09am-2:30 pm, closed on weekends, Address: Slanuška 18, Trg Svetog Save, Phone: +38131 521 360, 031/513-035, In charge: National Museum Užice, http://nmuzice.org.rs/ nmuzejuzice@ptt.rs