Bread Museum Pecinci

The Museum dedicated to the glory of bread, in the Pećinci village of Srem county in Vojvodina Province, has been established in 1995 and was named Jeremija, after Slobodan Jeremić Jeremija – Jeremy, whose life idea led to the creation of such Museum collection. Bread Museum in Pećinci village is result of numerous years of research and collecting of painter Jeremija, who had dedicated pretty long part of his life to the principle and the role of the Eucharistic bread. The unique Jeremija Bread Museum in Pecinci village is result of artworks of academic painter Slobodan Jeremić Jeremija who for decades collected various items while traveling along Serbia, often in exchange for his paintings. Result of this rare collecting and researching passion is the exhibition of immeasurable ethnographic value that includes tools for cultivation of land and bread preparation, as well as 96 ritual bread loafs that tell stories about people, thier lives, customs and lifestyle in the past.

The Bread Museum collection consists of 2000 exhibits, items and artifacts, divided into the ethnographic, archaeologic and the artistic parts. Besides the Bread Museum in Ulm, Germany, the Bread Museum in Pećinci village distinguishes itself by the rich archive of the feast breads in the Serb culture, from the neolithic period up to the present days, and provides its visitors great opportunity to explore and discover various ancient tools and objects and methods of how the land used to be cultivated by the Serbs. In the Bread Museum in Pećinci village are exposed various tools for cultivating land, original objects for wheat and corn processing, tools and objects for bread making, the ancient furnaces and the hearth, around which the whole family used to gather, collection of breads prepared for feasts and festivities….

Additional offer within the Bread Museum Pecinci are the paintings exhibition, the Refectory of Saint Nicholas, the Belfry dedicated to Saint Nicholas, painted depictions of the Serbian Medieval rulers, beautiful gardens full of greenery and flowers… Cordial hosts, who engage the whole family are always at service to provide lots of information of the exhibited authentic items, but also to serve uniquely rich and memorable fantastic „Bread buffet” to the announced groups. The Bread Museum in Pećinci village is frequented during year by large number of visitors – scholars, ethnologists, historians, art historians, researchers, church dignitaries and school students and various visitors from all parts of the world, keen to get new experiences, since exploration of the rich collections and authentic bread-culture items of the Bread Museum provides unique experiences.