The house at Kopitareva gradina,  built in 1905, and the preserved collection of artifacts represent authentic evidences on the life and work of the great Serbian and Yugoslav scholar Jovan Cvijić (1865-1927). As a connoisseur of the countries and peoples of the Balkan Peninsula, he wrote a number of important scholarly works, like The Balkan Peninsula and the South-Slavic Countries, Geomorphology, Anthropogeographic Problems of the Balkan Peninsula, Basic Geography and Geology of Macedonia and Old Serbia. He was president of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts and corresponding member of the Yugoslav Academy of Sciences and Arts, and member of numerous scholarly societies in Yugoslavia and abroad, professor and rector of Belgrade University. He was honorary doctor of the Sorbonne in Paris and the University of Prague. From the Geographic Societies of London, New York, Paris, etc. he received gold and silver medals as tokens of recognition. Stylistically, the house is a representative of the early twentieth century academic style. Nowadays the building houses the museum dedicated to the great scholar. Some works by Dragutin Inkiostri Medenjak have been preserved in the interior. Reflecting the scientist's interest in the Balkan Peninsula, the thematic layer of painting was inspired by landscapes of Bosnia, Herzegovina and Sumadija, which Cvijić particulary explored and scientifically approached.

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