Museums & Villages
Sirogojno — the Old Village museum
Zlatibor · Šumadija & Western Serbia
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- Zlatibor · Šumadija & Western Serbia
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- 2–3 days
ABOUT THIS ATTRACTION
Sirogojno keeps the Zlatibor village as it was: an open-air museum of original 19th-century log houses moved here from across the plateau — the school, the church, the smithy, the winter kitchen — arranged as a living hamlet. The museum’s knitwear workshop made Sirogojno famous twice: the hand-knitted “Sirogojno style” was exported worldwide in the 1980s and is still sold at the gate.
HISTORY & BACKGROUND
The story behind it
The museum opened in 1980 around the village church of Sts Peter and Paul (1764); the houses were collected from across Zlatibor by the ethnologist Dobrila Vlahović. The knitting cooperative — started the same decade to employ village women — became the “Sirogojno style” brand, the most successful craft enterprise of socialist Yugoslavia.
WHAT TO SEE
What to see here
The log-house hamlet — the school, smithy and winter kitchen.
The church of 1764 and its iconostasis.
The knitwear shop — the famous Sirogojno style, made here.
GOOD TO KNOW
Facts & Curiosities
The “Sirogojno style” knitwear was sold in New York and Milan in the 1980s — hand-knitted in this village.
The museum’s houses are originals — moved log by log from across the plateau.
The church of 1764 keeps the plateau’s oldest iconostasis.
The village’s winter kitchen (mrljenica) shows the Zlatibor hearth — the region’s cooking defined.
MAP & LOCATION
Sirogojno — the Old Village museum
Sirogojno — the Old Village museum, Zlatibor, Šumadija & Western Serbia, Serbia
43.7520, 19.8270
THINGS TO DO
Things to do nearby
FOOD & DRINK
Where to eat nearby
The town’s kafanas — Zlatibor cheese, kajmak and grilled meat at the source
Katun tables on the pastures — cheese made where you sit
HOTELS & STAYS
Where to stay nearby
The town’s hotels and apartments by the lake; the villages (Sirogojno, Alin Potok) for the quiet
Camping Zlatibor — the town’s year-round campsite, 10 minutes from the centre
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