The Administration for the Protection of Cultural Property accepted the initiatives of the President of the Municipality of Kolašin Marta Šćepanović for the establishment and unification of the protection of the Native Museum, the mill on Svinjača (restaurant Vodenica), the church of St. Dimitrija and the old Elementary School "Risto Manojlović" with six memorials.
According to the Administration, the Kolasin Native Museum "has authenticity, integrity, a high degree of preservation, uniqueness and rarity within its kind". This property, they judge, simultaneously has historical, memorial, ethnological, architectural, construction, artistic, scientific, technical, documentary and other social significance and characteristics.
The Kolasin Museum is one of the oldest in the city. He survived numerous destructions of Kolašin, especially during the Second World War. The house was started to be built in 1903 by the Montenegrin army commander Pavle M. Vujisić (1871-1921). As he did not have the money to finish it, the house was bought by the Montenegrin government in 1905, for the needs of state institutions in Kolašin. Originally a house, now a museum, one of the buildings that make up the Lower Town Square, it used to be a grain market, today Trg Borca. The building is located on the northeast corner of Trg, on the corner of Vojvode Mina and IV proleterska streets.
The mill on Svinjača, the Management explains, has uniqueness and rarity within its kind, a part of authenticity and a certain degree of preservation.
"The original mill or mill for grinding grain with a rolling mill for rolling wool or cloth, on the river Svinjača pod Brezo, was built, most likely, at the beginning of the 1858th century. The mill was demolished in the great destruction of the city in 1864. It was restored immediately after the return of the Turkish administration to Kolašin in 1879. According to the Dation Registers for XNUMX, it belonged to Murat Jusov Martinović, who also owned the surrounding land", are historical details about the building that now houses the Vodenica restaurant.
After the liberation of Kolašin and the entry of the Montenegrin army, that building was listed as a mill with two winches. By the order of Prince Nikola, it was presented to the commander of the Montenegrin army, Milisav Mišnin Vujisić.
During the NOR, the mill was damaged in the bombing in 1944, and the roof was destroyed in a fire. It was restored after the war, but the need for its work faded over time. In the eighties of the last century, the mill became the property of the Municipality of Kolašin by purchase.
Church of St. According to the Administration, Dimitrija has authenticity, integrity and a high degree of preservation.
It was built in 1888 in honor of the tenth anniversary of liberation, in the place where a small chapel dedicated to St. Jovan Preteča, formerly an observation post from the Ottoman period. Prince Nikola contributed 2.000 fiorins for the construction of the existing church. Conscripts from this region took part in the construction of the church, and the work was supervised by the commander of the Kolašin battalion.
The initiator's request refers to the unification of the protection of six memorial plaques, three on the building and three in the building of the old elementary school.
From mid-November to early December 1943, the School hosted the Founding Assembly of the National Anti-Fascist National Liberation Council (ZAVNO) of Montenegro and Boka, the first Congress of Anti-Fascist Youth of Montenegro and Boka and the first Congress of the Anti-Fascist Women's Front. Since 1961, the school has been named after its former teacher, a revolutionary and anti-fascist who died in the Second World War. The old building of the Gymnasium in Kolašin was built in 1938 on the foundation of the previous one, which burned down in a fire in 1937. The work of the "Risto Manojlović" Elementary School, and the building was the last permanent purpose of the building, until 2012 and the construction of a new school of the same name. Due to its historical significance, the building was placed under state protection in 1960.
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