NATIONAL MUSEUM OF GEVGELIJA (НАРОДЕН ГЕВГЕЛИЈА ГЕВГЕЛИЈА МУЗЕЈ)

A national institution founded in 1992, this museum (Национална Установа-Музеј Гевгелија/Nacionalna Ustanova-Muzej Gevgelija) is housed in the former Vladov konak, a mansion built in 1906. The main hall houses about 350 objects from the Vardarski Rid site, especially those from the period of the Macedonian kingdom (^4th-1st century BC): a 61 cm statue of Aphrodite, coins minted under various Macedonian kings (including Alexander III, known as "the Great"), jewelry, luxury ceramics, red clay figurines, including the seated one depicting the Phrygian goddess Cybele, etc. We go back in time with the previous occupants of the same site: beautiful bronze objects left by the Peonians (^7th-6th century B.C.) and superb ceramic jugs from the tomb of a Bronze Age child (^13th-12th century B.C.). The rest of the archaeological collection consists of finds from other sites in the region, especially the Isar site near the village of Marvinci/Марвинци, 19 km north of Gevgelija (GPS: 41.283333, 22.498056). This site that can be visited freely had a strong development with the Greco-Roman city of Idomene. There is also a beautiful set of bronze bracelets and pendants (700-650 BC) from the site of Milci, near the border post. Finally, the museum houses small collections of ethnology, art and history as well as a store selling reproductions of the most beautiful archaeological objects exhibited here.