PERMANENT MUSEUM EXIBITIONS

The main seat of the Institute and Museum Bitola is the Old Barrack which is registered monument of culture. This building, according to the inscription of Tefic Bey was built in 1848 in aim to serve as a military gymnasium - "Idadie" or high military school which exists from 1848 till 1900.

From 1900 till 1909 in this building the military academy was accommodated, than known as "Harabie", while from 1909 till the Balkans Wars is transformed into a military school once again. Immediately after he Balkan wars until the 1974 this building serve as a military barrack.

With the above mentioned processes of integration the National Museum of Bitola in 1976 moved its old museum exhibits and the entire museum fund to the present building, better known as the Old Bitola Barracks "Stiv Naumov".

At that time this building, with a surface area covering more than 6000m2, in its ruined state did not offer many possibilities for museum presentation, that is, for the establishment of permanent museum exhibitions. Namely, this is the period when the museum presentation noted 15 years stagnation, waiting for the completion of the adaptation and the reconstruction of the premises until 1992. In this period many surveys were prepared, concepts for a complex permanent exhibition in which, through the presentation of the natural landscapes and region, archaeology, history, ethnology, art history and contemporary art, Bitola would be well presented from ancient times till the present day.