The Museum of Vuk and Dositej was established in 1949. Ever since 1979 it has been a part of the National Museum. The base for its foundation was the legacy of Vuk Karadzich which his daughter Mina presented to the Kingdom of Serbia in 1984. The archive documents within this collection were given to the Serbian Academy of Science, while the pictures and Vuk Karadzich's personal belongings were given to the National Museum which formed a special exhibit, so called Vuk's Room. This exhibition was enlarged by another one related to Dositej Obradovich, another great Serbian educator and Vuk's predecessor in the struggle for introducing the vernacular into Serbian literature.
The Museum is situated in Jevremova Street 21, the oldest preserved residential building in Belgrade, the building where the first Serbian High School, founded by Dositej Obradovic, used to be. One of the first students was Vuk Karadzich.
The Museum collection has about 8.000 objects, and a library with 5.000 books. The exhibition space is 180 m2. The Museum has a publishing department. It publishes the yearly "Kovcežic" ("A Small Chest").