The SASA Institute of Ethnography visited the National Museum Smederevska Palanka on Wednesday, April 30, 2025, for the closing of the exhibition, “Olga Benson- about Us between Art and Ethnography”, by Petar Dekić. The exhibition introduced the work of the Russian academic painter Olga Benson, who was employed as a folklore painter at the SASA Institute of Ethnography in the period from 1947 to 1950, to the public. By selecting sixty drawings and aquarelles from a collection of almost six hundred works, a part of her oeuvre that demonstrates the value of visual documentation in ethnographic research was presented. In addition to explaining the significance of this collection form the perspective of contemporary ethnography, the audience had the opportunity to learn about the history and current activities of the SASA Institute of Ethnography, as well as other significant collections of this institution.

Petar Dekić, director of the National Museum Smederevska Palanka and the associates of the SASA Institute of Ethnography, Bojana Bogdanović, PhD, Milan Tomašević, PhD, and Bojana Vuković spoke at the promotion.