With an exclusive Gift Agreement concluded on May 27, 1965, Pavle Beljanski donated the painting La Grande Iza (1882) by Vlaho Bukovac to the Memorial Collection and the museum was also obliged to establish The Pavle Beljanski Memorial Collection Award for the best Graduate Diploma dissertation in the national history of art (since 2017 the award has also included the best Master Thesis), defended at the Department of Art History at the Faculty of Philosophy of the University of Belgrade. Established in 1967, the Award is the first recognition of its kind in post-war Yugoslavia.
