The most valuable part of the ethnological department is the Jevđević Memorial House as the oldest preserved house in the urban area in old Priboj. It was built by Vukola Jevđević in 1879, a member of a prominent priestly family at the time. The house is a representative of the modest town architecture of that period and is under the protection of the Regional Institute for the Protection of Monuments from Kraljevo. On the initiative of Vujica Jevđević, (grandson of Vukolin), a prominent scientist with a prestigious international career in the field of hydrology, the house was handed over in 2005 as a gift by a professor to the Priboj Homeland Museum for care and preservation with financial support for its rehabilitation. 

Vujica Jevđević was the world’s leading scientist in the field of hydrology. He is one of the world’s most cited scientists in this field who has paved new directions in world water science. This visionary spirit, which has been omnipresent throughout his career, greatly contributed to the fact that in 1996, as the first laureate, he was awarded the newly established, highest national, and at the same time world, award for achievement in the field of hydraulic engineering by the ASCE (American Society of Civil Engineers). He was born in 1913. in Kasidoli, near Priboj. He finished elementary school in Priboj and the First Gymnasium in Sarajevo with honors. He completed his studies in civil engineering at the Technical Faculty in Belgrade, where he graduated in 1936. He continued his education at the prestigious high school in Grenoble (France), where he received a diploma in hydraulic engineering in 1938. 

He formed the Hydropower Institute with a hydraulic laboratory, which quickly became one of the most famous of its kind in the world. The newly formed Institute played a decisive role in the hydropower construction of Yugoslavia and today’s Institute for Water Management “Jaroslav Černi” was founded on its foundations. Until 1957, at the Faculty of Civil Engineering in Belgrade, he taught Hydrology and Utilization of Water Power.  In 1955, he defended his doctoral dissertation at the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts in front of a commission chaired by academician Milutin Milanković, becoming the first doctor of technical sciences in our country in the field of water management and hydraulic engineering. 

In 1958., as a world-renowned expert, he moved to the United States, and two years later he was elected a full professor at the Faculty of Civil Engineering of the University of Colorado (Fort Collins), which thanks to him would become the world’s most famous college of hydraulic engineering. He was a professor, researcher and director of the Water Management Institute at George Washington University. He was the initiator and one of the most prolific authors of scientific journals, and in terms of citations in the field of hydrology and water management, he was at the very top of the world. He has received numerous and high-quality international awards, was an honorary doctor at several world universities, an honorary member of several international associations, and in Serbia he received an honorary doctorate from the University of Belgrade and was elected a foreign member of the Academy of Engineering Sciences of Serbia. He has taken the first places at many levels in his field, and on the international level of the most famous Serbian civil engineers, he ranks right behind the famous Milutin Milanković. He has nurtured numerous and outstanding experts around the world, especially in our country. Until his last days, he did not break off relations with the motherland, introducing the former Yugoslavia, and especially Serbia, into large international hydrological projects, lectures, discussions. For six decades in a row, he was present in the world of water science, continuing his vigorous research activity even after his retirement.

He marked the last year of his successful life with legacies: he donated his family house to the Homeland Museum in Priboj, the fund for the award for the best student of the Faculty of Civil Engineering in Belgrade and part of his rich library of professional literature to the same faculty. He died in 2006 in the United States. Until now, the name of Vujica Jevđević is known as the most successful individual from the territory of the municipality of Priboj.