Museum of VMRO

The Museum of VMRO for Shtip and the Shtip region (1893–1934) is located in Shtipsko Novo Selo, at the place called Yavorot, near the bridge over the river Bregalnica and Ldzite. The museum is housed in a building of old-town architecture, formerly owned by the Andonovi family. This museum is dedicated to the Macedonian revolutionary organization and the struggle of the Macedonian people for an autonomous Macedonia.

The museum was officially opened on December 20, 2014. It has an exhibition space of 160 square meters, as well as seven separate rooms containing 11 wax figures of prominent activists of the Organization, valuable exhibits, photographs, authentic documents, personal belongings, and weapons that belonged to some of the most significant historical figures originating from or active in Shtip and the Shtip region. In addition to the wax figures of Tode Deltchev, Dame Grujev, Mishe Razvigorets, Doncho Shtipjancheto, Todor Lazarov, Todor Aleksandrov, Gjorgji Petrov, Petar Pop Arsov, Vladislav Kovachev, Pancho Mihajlov, and Ivan Mihajlov, the museum also displays ethnological items from everyday social life at the end of the 19th century.

The Museum of VMRO in Shtipsko Novo Selo represents a memorial house of Macedonian revolutionaries who were born in this place or dedicated their lives to Macedonia. Every part of this museum testifies to a significant historical period of the Organization, and their names remain permanently inscribed in our history. Through this museum, we pay tribute to the deeds of these distinguished revolutionaries and enable cultural interaction between the past and the present, between history and modern life. Today, we live their dream – an independent and autonomous Macedonia.