The oldest of museum institutions in Belgrade was founded in 1844 at the initiative of the Serb writer Jovan Sterija Popovic.

The founding of the National Museum coincides with the rise of the civic culture and the establishment of the state institutions of the Principality of Serbia.

The National Museum in Belgrade, a complex type museum, is the most significant, oldest and central museum of Serbia containing 34 archaeological, numismatic and historical collections at this moment, after 160 years of growth and development. The museum collections contain over 400,000 archaeological and historical-artistic items, key mementos for archaeology and the history of art, representing the development and civilisation changes within the region of contemporary Serbia and its nearest surroundings, as well as key artistic directions and styles, pinnacles of artistic achievement in the national and European art world from the medieval period to modern times. Some example of the unique exhibits are the sculptures from Lepenski vir (7^th millennium B.C.), Vincian statues (6-5^th millennium B.C.), a shed from Jabucje (1^st century A.D.), Belgrade Camea (4^th century), coins of King Radoslav (13^th century), medieval icons and frescoes, a bowl from Vracevšnica (17^th century), paintings by Paja Jovanovic (19^th century) or Sava Šumanovic (20^th century). The National Museum also holds the Gospel of Miroslav (“Miroslavljevo Jevandelje“) from the 12^th century, the most valuable artefact of Serb culture, officially declared the most beautiful Cyrillic manuscript in the world and a cultural treasure placed, along with the archive of the Museum of Nikola Tesla, under the protection of the UNESCO program “Memories of the World”.

Address: Republic Square 1a
Open: Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Fridays 10-17h, Thursdays and Saturdays 12-20h, Sundays10-14h, closed on Mondays
Accessible to persons with disabilities
Telephone: +381 11 33 06 048    

Founded in 1949, it is located in the building of the former Grand School, opened in 1808 as a lyceum by the great Serb luminary and first Serbian Minister of Education Dositej Obradovic.

The museum contains a professional library, with a small reading room and consists of two parts – the ground floor contains an exhibit dedicated to Dositej Obradovic, while the first floor is dedicated to Vuk Stefanovic Karadžic.

Address: Gospodar Jevremova 21

Open: Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Fridays 10-17h, Thursdays 12-20h, Sundays 10-14h, closed on Mondays

Telephone: +381 11 26 25 161

www.narodnimuzej.rs

The gallery was founded in 1953 as a special institution for the collection, study and exhibition of material on Serbian medieval art. It is currently part of the National Museum and contains a rich collection of copies of frescoes and medieval sculpture.

Address: Cara Uroša 20

Open: Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Fridays and Saturdays 10-17h, Thursdays 12-20h, Sundays 10-14h, closed on Mondays

Accessible to persons with disabilities

Telephone: +381 11 26 21 491

www.narodnimuzej.rs

The museum was founded in 1958 and is located in a building in New Belgrade, at the very confluence of the Sava and the Danube. The original architectural design of the building is reminiscent of a crystal. The permanent exhibit shows a rich selection of Yugoslav painting, sculpture and engravings from the 20^th century.

Address: Ušce 10, Novi Beograd

The museum is closed for reconstruction

Telephone: +381 11 31 15 713

www.msub.org.rs

The gallery is located in the former atelier of the renowned painter Petar Dobrovic, one of the key figures of Yugoslav painting between the two world wars.

Address: Kralja Petra 36/IV

Opening hours: Friday, Saturday, Sunday 10-17 hours. Admission free

Telephone: +381 11 26 22 163

www.msub.org.rs

Exhibitions of artwork by contemporary authors are held at the Salon of the Museum of Contemporary Arts, opened in the spring of 1961.

Address: Pariska 14

Open: 12-20h, closed on Tuesdays

Telephone: +381 11 26 30 940

www.msub.org.rs

The Museum of the Serbian Orthodox Church in Belgrade was opened in 1954. The museum exhibit is divided into several sections: metallic liturgical objects, exhibits related to historical events and persons, exhibits dedicated to the life of Serbs on the territory of the Habsburg Monarchy and a collection of icons.

Address: Kralja Petra I nr. 5

Open: weekdays 8-16h, Saturdays 09-12h, Sundays 11-13h

Telephone: +381 11 30 25 136

www.spc.rs

The Museum of Applied Art was founded in 1950 and belongs to the category of art museums of a specialised type. In addition to national applied arts items the museum houses items from a number of other countries, collected through cultural and economic relations.

The Museum of Applied Arts purchased a valuable collection of various artistically processed objects upon its opening, collected during a period of thirty years by the painter and engraver Ljuba Ivanovic. The collection contained over 3,000 objects, the most prominent in terms of their historical and artistic value being the works of jewellers, objects carved from wood, resin and mother of pearl, woodcuts and painted icons. The oldest items owned by the museum date back to the 4^th century B.C.E. and are part to the numismatic collection (ancient Greek coins).

Address: Vuka Karadžica 18

Open: Tuesdays and Saturdays 11 do 19h, Wednesdays, Thursdays and Fridays 12-19h, Sundays 10-14h, closed on Mondays

Telephone: +381 11 26 26 494

www.mpu.rs

The Ethnographic Museum houses a large number of ethnographic items, divided into separate exhibits (household items, jewellery, customs, national costumes, national architecture, economy, stock farming, transportation, cultural artefacts), along with one of the best equipped professional libraries in the Balkans.

The permanent exhibit takes up three levels of the building. The first floor represents the popular assembly, the second is related to textile production and the third is about the culture of living. The symbol of the museum is the Decanska Fountain, located at its centre.

Address: Students’ Square 13

Open: 10-17h, Sundays 9-14 h, closed on Mondays

Accessible to persons with disabilities

Telephone: +381 11 32 81 888, 26 25 140

www.etnografskimuzej.rs

Manak’s House is an integral part of the Ethnographic Museum, an example of old Balkan urban architecture, housing a particularly significant and valuable ethnographic memorial collection by Hristifor Crnilovic.

The collection contains approximately 2,600 items, mostly costumes and jewellery of immense cultural value. The costumes hail from the regions of South Serbia, Kosovo, Metohija and Macedonia. The collection is completed by examples of embroidery, textiles, towels, bags, carpets from Pirot and household items. The jewellery is particularly valuable, especially the jewellery worn on the head: diadems, head-scarves, tepeluks, pins, earrings, combs and necklaces.

Address: Kraljevica Marka 10

Open: Tuesdays-Saturdays 10-17h, Sundays 09-13h, closed on Mondays

Telephone: +381 11 30 36 114

www.etnografskimuzej.rs

A total fund of over 130,000 cultural-historical items is sorted into 14 sections, with exhibits from prehistory, a significant collection of antique culture, as well as a collection of engravings and maps of Belgrade from the 16^th through 19^th century.

This treasure is waiting to be adequately presented to the public as evidence of the long and rich history of Belgrade.

The Museum of the City of Belgrade also contains exhibits of cultural-historical (Residence of Princess Ljubica, Sekulic Icon Collection), ethnographic (Memorial Museum of Zemun and the Museum of Mladenovac) and memorial type (Museum of Toma Rosandic, Museum of ?ovan Cvi?ic, Museum of Pa?a ?ovanovic, Memorial Museum of Ivo ?ndric, Museum of the Camp at Banjica), as well as the Vinca archaeological locale.

Address: Zmaj Jovina 1 (administrative building)

Open: weekdays 9-17h

Telephone: +381 11 26 30 462

www.mgb.org.rs

Located in the very heart of Belgrade, on Kosancicev Venac.

The Residence of Princess Ljubica was erected on orders by Prince Miloš Obrenovic in 1831, as the private residence of his wife, the Princess Ljubica. The architecture and placement of rooms represent an example of the Balkans style, with a number of western baroque elements.

The Residence houses the permanent exhibit “Interiors of Belgrade City Houses of the 19^th Century” starting with the Oriental (Turkish), through the influence of Central (Biedermeier) and Western European (Neo-baroque, Neo-rococo, Napoleon III, Altdeutch) styles. The arched hall in the Residence basement is an exquisite ambiental locale where the Museum of the City of Belgrade organizes exhibits, lectures, music performances and promotions.

Address: Kneza Sime Markovica 8

Open: Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Fridays, Saturdays 10-18h, Thursdays 12-20h, Sundays 10-14h, closed on Mondays
Telephone: +381 11 26 38 264

www.mgb.org.rs

It is located in the building that once belonged to the famous Aromanian noble family Spirta.

The house was built in 1855 and is the only Neo-gothic building preserved in the region around Belgrade. The museum houses the permanent exhibit displaying the diverse history of Zemun, while on occasion professional and thematic exhibits, lectures, promotions and music manifestations are organized.

Address: Main Street 9, Zemun

Open: upon appointment with the curators
Telephone: +381 11 31 65 234

www.mgb.org.rs

It is located in a former private residence, built in 1925 in a neo-classicist style.

The permanent exhibit represents the archaeological, historical and ethnographic development of the municipality of Mladenovac.

Address: Aleksandrova 69, Mladenovac
Open: Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Fridays, Saturdays 10-17h, Thursdays 12-20h, Sundays 10-14 h, closed on Mondays
Accessible to persons with disabilities

Telephone: +381 11 82 32 969

www.mgb.org.rs

The museum preserves the memory of the Nobel Prize winning author Ivo Andric.

Part of the authentic ambient showing the everyday life of the writer is preserved, and various exhibits present the life of Andric, as well as important stages in his creative biography.

In addition to representative documents (student’s cards, passports, certificates, diplomas, the Nobel Prize and medal, Vuk’s Awards, honorary doctorates) and photographs, the exhibit also displays original manuscripts of Andric’s work, letters, various editions of books in local and foreign languages, as well as his personal effects.

Address: Andricev Venac 8

Open: Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Fridays, Saturdays 10-18h, Thursdays 12-20h, Sundays 10-14 h, closed on Mondays
Telephone: +381 11 32 38 397

www.mgb.org.rs

The museum is located in the house built in 1905 by the renowned scientist-geographer Jovan Cvijic.

The museological exhibit presents a representative part of the legacy of Jovan Cvijic, encompassing manuscripts, letters, photographs, books, applied art objects, artistic paintings, personal effects, documents and furniture.

Address: Jelene Cetkovic 5
Open: Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Fridays, Saturdays 10-18h, Thursdays 12-20h, Sundays 10-14 h, closed on Mondays
Telephone: +381 11 32 23 126

www.mgb.org.rs

The museum is located in the house built in 1929 by the famous sculptor and pedagogue, the academic Toma Rosandic, who spent his life there.

The artist left his atelier with a number of works to Belgrade and the Museum of the City of Belgrade. The museum houses sculptures by Toma Rosandic, sculpting tools, applied arts items and pieces of furniture (original works bearing the personal mark of the author), letters and personal documents.

Address: Ljube Jovanovica 3

Open: visits by appointment at +381 11 26 30 825

Telephone: +381 11 26 51 434

www.mgb.org.rs

The Museum of Paja Jovanovic is of a memorial type, located in an apartment of an old multi-story building in one of the main streets of Belgrade.

The famous actor bequeathed the Museum a number of his works while still living, from initial sketches to representative portraits and historical compositions. The museum contains a partial reconstruction of his Vienna atelier with pieces of period furniture, along with painting tools, personal documents, diplomas and medals, notes and memories of the artist, a set of his letters and a photo library of most of his works.

Address: Kralja Milana 21/IV
Open: visits by appointment at +381 11 26 30 462

Telephone: +381 11 33 40 176

www.mgb.org.rs

An authentic interior from the nineteen-twenties, the home of the collectors Pava and Milan Sekulic, houses the permanent exhibit of icons created during the past 500 years on the Balkans, in Italy and Russia.

This unusual and valuable collection contains 165 Serb, Italo-Cretian, Greek and Russian icons, handmade in accordance with canons from the lives of saints.

Portraits by Pavel Đurkovic, Konstantin Danilo and Arsenije Teodorovic, as well as religious compositions by Stevan Aleksic, Jovan Kljajic and others represent 19^th century painting, while 20^th century painting is represented with landscapes by Jovan Bijelic, Marko Celebonovic and Ignjat Job.

Open: Tuesdays and Saturdays, 10-16h. Group visits are available also on other days during the week if booked in advance by phone +381 11 32 83 504

Address: Uzun Mirkova 5/1
Open: Tuesdays and Saturdays, 10-16h
Group visits are available also on other days during the week if booked in advance by phone +381 11 32 83 504

www.mgb.org.rs

The Museum of the Camp at Banjica is dedicated to the memory of the prisoners and victims of the Nazi concentration camp from World War II.

It is located at the authentic locations of the former camp (rooms 3, 25 and 26).

Address: Pavla Jurišica Šturma 33
Open: visits by appointment
Telephone: +381 11 36 74 877

www.mgb.org.rs

The locale of the Vincian culture can be found near Belgrade, on the right bank of Danube, in the village of Vinca. This culture arose across the region of South-eastern Europe around 5,000 years B.C.E.

A cross-section of the cultural layers at Vinca (approximately 10 m), visible from the Danube shore, represents a historic period of over 1000 years.

It represents evidence of the birth, rise and disappearance of the Neolithic Vincian culture, part of early European civilization. Archaeological research in Vinca was initiated by Professor M. M. Vasic in 1908, who worked there until 1934.

The Museum of the City of Belgrade manages the locale and oversees the museum materials. The locale contains a minor informative exhibit, while materials from the excavations are preserved in the archaeological collection of the Faculty of Philosophy and the National Museum.

Address: Belo brdo 17, Vinca
Open: visits by appointment at +381 11 80 66 340

Accessible to persons with disabilities

Telephone: +381 11 80 65 334

www.mgb.org.rs

The Heritage House is located in the house of the famous Belgrade merchant Veljko Savic, built in 1869 as one of the first modern single-story houses.

It arose as the product of a multi-decade initiative by artists, intellectuals, experts and donors, wishing to unite in a single place the heritage and gifts presented to Belgrade from 1955 to this day.

Address: Knez Mihailova 46

Open: 10-20h, closed on Mondays (occasional exhibits)

Telephone: +381 11 33 44 583, 33 44 601

www.kucalegata.org

Various materials important for the national theatre can be found in the adapted house of merchant Miloje Božic, built in 1863.

The museum exhibit contains archive materials and documents, letters, manuscripts, posters and programs, photographs, set and costume sketches, a library and a hermotheque (newspaper clippings).

Address: Gospodar Jevremova 19

Open: 9-14h, closed on Sundays

Telephone: +381 11 26 26 630

www.mpus.org.rs

The Museum of Pedagogy was founded in 1896 by the Teachers’ Association of Serbia with the mission to collect and preserve teaching aids and all other assets of pedagogical and historical significance for primary schools and teachers.

The museum was, unfortunately, completely destroyed in both world wars.

 The museum was rebuilt and modernised after 1945, and has been working since 1969 with the permanent exhibit “Ten Centuries of Serbian School in the Building of the Belgrade Lyceum (Realka)”. The visitors are introduced to the history of schools in Serbia from the 9^th to the early 20^th century in a clear and accessible way, through original items, documents, photographs and books.

Address: Uzun Mirkova 14

Open: Tuesdays-Saturdays 11-18h, Sundays 11-16h, closed on Mondays

Accessible to persons with disabilities

Telephone: +381 11 26 25 621

www.pedagoskimuzej.org.rs

The Museum of the Yugoslav Film Archive in Belgrade, founded in 1952, is a specialized film theatre showing classic works of local and international cinema.

The film collection of the Yugoslav Film Archive represents one of the most significant and plentiful film collections in Europe.

It houses more than 85,000 copies of films, both silent and sound, black and white and colour. These are the most important archive materials and documentary footage related to the territory of the former Yugoslavia, starting with the oldest preserved local film “Crowning of King Petar I” from 1904. The collection of foreign films, making up 80% of the collection of the Yugoslav Film Archive, contains all of the most valuable works from the history of world cinema.

The most precious artefacts in the museum are “Magic Lantern” (1890), a camera of the Lumičre brothers (1896), the head of an Edison cinetoscope (1893), the first “Pate Frer” studio film camera  (1903), the forerunner of the record player – the polyphone (1860), Edison’s phonograph (1908) and an array of cameras, projectors and sound devices.

Address: Kosovska 11

Open: prior to scheduled film projections

Telephone: +381 11 32 48 250

www.kinoteka.org.rs

The Military Museum in Belgrade is located within the Belgrade Fortress complex.

Founded in 1878, it was first open to the public in 1904. It consists of a diverse collection of weapons and military equipment from various historical epochs, prehistory to modern times, with uniforms, national banners, flags and medals, as well as artistic paintings from the 17^th to the 20^th century.

 Among the more interesting items are Turkish lances and the armour of a Turkish vizier from the battle of Kosovo, a collection of old weapons, war banners and uniforms (including the uniform of King Alexander Karageorgevich, assassinated in 1934 in Marseilles), as well as a collection of medals of national heroes from World War II.

 An additional open-air attraction in the area surrounding the museum (the wall and moat of the Fortress) are the exhibited cannons from the 18^th and 19^th century, armoured weapons from the two world wars, antiaircraft and ship cannons, partisan boats...

Address: Belgrade Fortress bb

Open: 10-16h, closed on Mondays 

Telephone: +381 11 33 43 441

www.muzej.mod.gov.rs

The Museum of Yugoslav History (Muzej istorije Jugoslavije - MIJ) was founded in 1996 as a successor to the Memorial Centre “Josip Broz Tito” and the Museum of the Revolution of Yugoslav Nations and Ethnic Minorities. It has a collection of more than 200 000 items that illustrate Yugoslav history throughout 20th century, with the special accent on life and work of Josip Broz Tito. The Museum of Yugoslav History comprises 3 buildings (the Museum “May 25^th”, the “House of Flowers” and the “Old Museum”).

Museum working hours:
During summer period (April 24 to October 15) from 10.00 a.m. to 8.00 p.m. every day except Mondays.
During winter period (October 16 to April 23) from 10.00 a.m. to 4.00 p.m. every day except Mondays.

Public holidays:
The Museum is closed to the public on January 1, January 7, Easter Days.

Entry fee:
Individual visit: 200 dinars
students and pupils (showing the student ID):  100 dinars.
Free entrance:
Children under 7, citizens of former SFR Yugoslavia over 70, ICOM members, members of official delegations and all visitors on the following dates: May 4 and May 25.

Within the museum there is a souvenir shop.

MUSEUM OF YUGOSLAV HISTORY
Boticeva 6, Belgrade, Serbia
tel:+381 11 3671485
fax:+381 11 2660170
mail: info@mij.rs
web site: www.mij.rs

The “May 25” Museum
Exhibitions of material from the Museum of Yugoslav History collection have been presented in this gallery, along with exhibitions and other events organised by the MIJ in collaboration with both local and international partners.

THE MAY 25 MUSEUM was purpose-built as a gift from the City of Belgrade to Tito, on the occasion of his seventieth birthday. It was officially opened on May 25, 1962. Gifts received by Josip Broz, both at home and abroad, were exhibited, curated, catalogued and studied in this museum until 1982. Its distinguishing feature was the permanent exhibitoin of batons. The May 25 Museum became the entry and exit facility of the Josip Broz Tito Memorial Centre (1982-1996), the major memorial complex established to preserve and nurture the memory of Josip Broz and to collect, catalogue and display documents and other items connected to his life and work.  

The Museum of Yugoslav History comprises 3 buildings (the Museum “May 25^th”, the “House of Flowers” and the “Old Museum”).

Exhibitions of material from the Museum of Yugoslav History collection have been presented in this gallery space since 1992, along with exhibitions and other events organised by the MIJ in collaboration with both local and international partners.

From 1945 to 1987, May 25 was celebrated as the birthday of Josip “Tito” Broz. From 1957, on the initiative of Tito himself, the date was celebrated as Youth Day with a festival in the Yugoslav People’s Army stadium. May 25 became a youth review in which the physical and spiritual achievements of young Yugoslavs were presented at a rally which included the presentation of a baton to Tito as part of the event.  

Museum working hours:
During summer period (April 24 to October 15) from 10.00 a.m. to 8.00 p.m. every day except Mondays.
During winter period (October 16 to April 23) from 10.00 a.m. to 4.00 p.m. every day except Mondays.

Public holidays:
The Museum is closed to the public on January 1, January 7, Easter Days.

Entry fee:
Individual visit: 200 dinars
Students and pupils (showing the student ID):  100 dinars.

Free entrance:
Children under 7, citizens of former SFR Yugoslavia over 70, ICOM members, members of official delegations and all visitors on the following dates: May 4 and May 25.

Within the museum there is a souvenir shop.

MUSEUM OF YUGOSLAV HISTORY
Boticeva 6, Belgrade, Serbia
tel:+381 11 3671485
fax:+381 11 2660170
mail: info@mij.rs
web site: www.mij.rs

The House of Flowers was built in 1975 as a winter garden with work and leisure space for Josip Broz, close to his Residence.  In accordance with his wishes, Tito’s body was interred in the central flower garden in 1980.

From 1945 to 1987, May 25 was celebrated as the birthday of Josip “Tito” Broz. From 1957, on the initiative of Tito himself, the date was celebrated as Youth Day with a festival in the Yugoslav People’s Army stadium. May 25 became a youth review in which the physical and spiritual achievements of young Yugoslavs were presented at a rally which included the presentation of a baton to Tito as part of the event.  On display in the House of Flowers are local batons presented as gifts by members of the Pioneer youth organisation and by various other youth, social and political organisations. There are also federal batons from the period after 1957, when May 25 was celebrated as Youth Day and Tito’s batons were increasingly institutionalised and renamed Youth Batons.

The Museum of Yugoslav History comprises 3 buildings (the Museum “May 25^th”, the “House of Flowers” and the “Old Museum”).

Museum working hours:
During summer period (April 24 to October 15) from 10.00 a.m. to 8.00 p.m. every day except Mondays.
During winter period (October 16 to April 23) from 10.00 a.m. to 4.00 p.m. every day except Mondays.

Public holidays:
The Museum is closed to the public on January 1, January 7, Easter Days.

Entry fee:
Individual visit: 200 dinars
Students and pupils (showing the student ID):  100 dinars.

Free entrance:
Children under 7, citizens of former SFR Yugoslavia over 70, ICOM members, members of official delegations and all visitors on the following dates: May 4 and May 25.

Within the museum there is a souvenir shop.

MUSEUM OF YUGOSLAV HISTORY
Boticeva 6, Belgrade, Serbia
tel:+381 11 3671485
fax:+381 11 2660170
mail: info@mij.rs
web site: www.mij.rs

The Old Museum

The building was initially used to preserve and present the numerous gifts Josip Broz received for his birthdays and during his travels in the country and abroad.
The permanent exhibit in the Old Museum, set up since 1987, represents a part of the Ethnographic Collection, Collection of Handmade Weapons and Applied Art Collection of the Museum of Yugoslav History. Among the more notable items are a “tanto” sword (one of the most valuable artifacts in the collection, from the 14^th century), a Prizren costume from 1870 (the oldest textile garment in the collection) and stone gusle.

Exhibition Around the world in 23 minutes presents the collection of the Museum of Yugoslav History as a unique collection of rarities. The title, Around the World, is intended to emphasise the variety of origin of the items.  In the permanent exhibition of the Old Museum we have focused on the exclusive quality of certain items.

The Museum of Yugoslav History comprises 3 buildings (the Museum “May 25^th”, the “House of Flowers” and the “Old Museum”).

Museum working hours:
During summer period (April 24 to October 15) from 10.00 a.m. to 8.00 p.m. every day except Mondays.
During winter period (October 16 to April 23) from 10.00 a.m. to 4.00 p.m. every day except Mondays.

Public holidays:
The Museum is closed to the public on January 1, January 7, Easter Days.

Entry fee:
Individual visit: 200 dinars
Students and pupils (showing the student ID):  100 dinars.

Free entrance:
Children under 7, citizens of former SFR Yugoslavia over 70, ICOM members, members of official delegations and all visitors on the following dates: May 4  and May 25.

Within the museum there is a souvenir shop.

MUSEUM OF YUGOSLAV HISTORY
Boticeva 6, Belgrade, Serbia
tel:+381 11 3671485
fax:+381 11 2660170
mail: info@mij.rs
web site: www.mij.rs

As a complex museum with the task of preserving and enabling communication between the public and the national heritage, the Historical Museum of Serbia collects, preserves, registers and studies materials related to the history of Serbia, maintains and completes museum collections, as well as the information and documentation on them, and makes it available to the public. In addition, through museum exhibitions it responsibly and competently articulates and interprets the knowledge of the past not only of Serbia and the Serbian people, but also of the other peoples and cultures that have lived and still live in the territory of Serbia from the Middle Ages to the present. It was established in 1963. Since 1966, the Residence of Prince Miloš in Topcider has been incorporated into the Museum. At present, the Museum has over 35.000 objects within its fund, kept in 25 collections.

Museum locations:

Djure Jakšica 9 (Administrative Building)

Working hours: weekdays 9 a.m. – 5 p.m.

Telephones: +381 (11) 3287 242; 3287 243; 2187 360

?-mail: istorijskimuzej@imus.org.rs

www.imus.org.rs

Trg Nikole Pašica 11 (exhibition space)

Working hours: every day except Mondays 12 a.m. – 7 p.m.

Telephone: +381 (11) 3398 018

Residence of Prince Miloš Obrenovic in Topcider

Rakovicki put bb

Working hours: every day except Mondays 10 a.m. – 5 p.m.

Telephone: +381 (11) 2660 422

Public transport: tram no. 3

Admission fees: 200 RSD for adults, 100 RSD for school children, students and seniors

Group visits are available. Reservations must be made by phone or e-mail. For further information please call (011) 3287 243; 060/3398 018; (011) 2660 422; or e-mail nenad.beljinac@imus.org.rs or istorijskimuzej@imus.org.rs

From the Museum’s offer

The Karadjordjevic and Obrenovic dynasties in the Collections of the Historical Museum of Serbia (Trg Nikole Pašica 11)

In the year of celebration of its 50^th anniversary, the Historical Museum of Serbia opened a part of its refurbished space with the representative exhibition The Karadjordjevic and Obrenovic dynasties in the Collections of the Historical Museum of Serbia, dedicated to the two ruling dynasties in Serbia which contributed to the liberation from the centuries-long Ottoman rule and the creation of the modern Serbian state.

The author of the exhibition concept is Andrej Vujnovic, and of the exhibition design Izabela Martinov Tomovic.

The visitors can see over four hundred objects that belonged to the founders of the two ruling dynasties – Vožd Karadjordje and Knez Miloš – as well as to the members of their extended families: the weapons used in the First Serbian Uprising, the royal insignia of Peter I Karadjordjevic, and objects used in their everyday life.

These objects, which provide a better insight into the material traces of the Serbian history of the 19^th and first half of the 20^th centuries, belong to one of the most valuable groups of objects kept in the Museum Collections.

Guided tours are available every Wednesday at 5 p.m. and Saturday at 1 p.m.

Residence of Prince Miloš

A new permanent exhibition of the Historical Museum of Serbia has been put on display in the Residence of Prince Miloš in Topcider.

On the ground floor, the visitors can see six ambient units within the exhibition named Life in 19th-century Serbia, which deals with the changes of life style in 19th-century Serbia: the ambience of an Oriental town house as well as the typical interior of a European town house partially reconstructed, the differences between rural and urban households through the culture of food/nutrition, the intimate world of an individual, the creation of public spaces, and travelling – another important aspect of the life of an individual in 19th-century Serbia.

The ground floor also provides a few basic facts about Topcider, the suburb of Belgrade at the time, where Prince Miloš in 1831 built one of his official residences, as well as about its inextricable connection with the memory of Prince Miloš and the Obrenovic dynasty. The famous Topcider Park, which surrounds the residence, became a favourite Belgrade resort in the second half of the 19^th century.

The exhibition on the upper floor named Miloš Obrenovic – a dynasty, history, myth, is dedicated to Prince Miloš, the creator of modern Serbian state and to his immeasurable contribution to the liberation from the centuries-long Ottoman rule, as well as to the many significant roles played by his successors during 19th-century Serbian history: the creation of the modern Serbian state and its struggle for independence, the evolution of its modern political and social institutions, the rise of education, culture and science, and the development of the economy and social life. 

The authors of the exhibition concept on the ground floor are Katarina Mitrovic and Dragana Spasojevic, and of the concept on upper floor Katarina Mitrovic, Nebojša Damnjanovic and Vladimir Merenik. The author of the exhibition design is Borjana Šuvakovic.

Having built a residence for his wife and children in the city of Belgrade, Prince Miloš Obrenovic erected a residence for himself in Topcider during the period between 1831 and 1834.

The rich interior decoration on the ceilings, walls and niches is partially preserved to this day. During his first reign Prince Miloš only resided there occasionally, while he spent the last two years of his second reign at the Residence, dying there in 1860.

One of the oldest and most beautiful sycamore trees in Europe grows in front of this building, over 160 years old and preserved as a natural rarity.

Address: Rakovicki put 2

Open: 10-17h (April-October), 11-16h (October-April), closed on Mondays

Telephone: +381 11 26 60 422

www.imus.org.rs

The Museum of Natural History was founded in 1895 under the name “Jestastvenicki muzej“, as the first specialized institution dealing with the natural heritage of the nation.

The first exhibit was opened in 1904.

 A temporary location houses the natural and cultural heritage in 117 naturalist collections, with approximately 1,500,000 various items from Serbia, the Balkan Peninsula, and the world. The mineralogical, petrological, fossil and recent mollusc, insect, bird and mammal collections stand out regarding the number of items, along with the General Herbarium of the Balkan Peninsula.

 The Museum of Natural History does not have a permanent exhibit. Exhibitions are presented in the Gallery of the Museum of Natural History.

 Address: Njegoševa 51, Belgrade (administrative building)

Open: 09-17h

Telephone: +381 11 34 42 147, 34 42 149

www.nhmbeo.rs

The building housing the Gallery of the Museum of Natural History is one of the oldest buildings, erected between 1825 and 1835 within the complex of the Belgrade Fortress.

It was built to be used by the sentries guarding the main approach to the Stambol Gate.

 The remains of animals from the Ice Age (spiral twisted tusks of a woolly mammoth, the skull of a woolly rhinoceros, vertebra of a cave bear, horn of a giant deer) and fossil remains indicating that the area of Belgrade was the location of a warm Pannonian Sea fifteen million years ago (shells, corals, “beogradica” snails, tooth of the Carcharocles Megalodon shark) are particularly attractive items in the permanent exhibit.

 Address: Mali Kalemegdan 5

Open: 10-21h (April-October), 10-17h (November-March), closed on Mondays

Accessible to persons with disabilities

Telephone: +381 11 32 84 317

www.nhmbeo.rs

The building housing the Jewish History Museum was erected in 1928 for the needs of the Jewish Sephardic Municipality in Belgrade.

The German Kulturbund was located in the building during World War II. The museum is currently located on the first floor.

 Through items, documents and photographs, this museum preserves the history of the 2,000 years of Jewish presence on the territory of the former Yugoslavia. It contains depictions of synagogues, graveyards, customs, the history of Jewish municipalities, Jewish societies and schools, notable persons and the holocaust.

 Address: Kralja Petra I 71a/I

Open: 10-14h, closed on Saturdays and Sundays

Telephone: +381 11 26 22 634

www.jimbeograd.org

The museum preserving the complete heritage of the greatest Serbian scientist and inventor Nikola Tesla is located in the heart of Belgrade, in a beautiful residential villa built in 1929, designed by the notable Serbian architect Dragiša Brašovan.

In accordance with Tesla’s last will and testament, his heritage was moved to Belgrade in 1951. The permanent exhibit consists of the original documents, books, magazines, plans and drawings of the greatest Serbian inventor. This is an extremely valuable collection containing over 160,000 original documents, 2,000 books and magazines, 1,200 historical and technical items, 1,500 photographs and glass photoplates, original technical items, instruments and devices, 1,000 plans and drawings.

Address: Krunska 51

Open: 10-18 h, Saturdays and Sundays 10-15h, closed on Mondays

Telephone: +381 11 24 33 886

www.tesla-museum.org

The museum was founded in 1950. The extremely valuable items show the development of the railroads in the country and the world.

The collection includes several old locomotives: a locomotive from 1861, the Rama locomotive pulling the parade train for Sarajevo in 1882 and reconstructed to look as an engine from 1877, as well as the Milan locomotive, the first one built in Serbia, in Majdanpek in 1882.

 Address: Nemanjina 6

Open: 9-15 h, Saturdays and Sundays, visits by appointment

Accessible to persons with disabilities

Telephone: +381 11 36 10 334

www.zeleznicesrbije.com

The Museum of Aviation was founded in 1957 with the intent of preserving material evidence of importance for the birth and development of aeronautics in this region.

 The attractive museum building is located on the plateau of the “Nikola Tesla” Airport and contains over 200 aircraft, 130 aircraft engines, several radars and rockets, aeronautical equipment, 20,000 books and over 200,000 photographs in its collections and funds.

Address: “Nikola Tesla” airport, Surcin
Open: 09-18:30h (summers), 09-16h (winters), closed on Mondays
Telephone: +381 11 26 70 992

www.muzejvazduhoplovstva.org.rs

www.aeronauticalmuseum.com

The building housing the museum was built in 1929 as the first public garage in the city centre, designed by the Russian architect Valeri Stashevski.

It was named “Modern Garage” and declared a cultural heritage item. It housed the automobiles used in the First International Automobile Race held in 1939 in Belgrade.

The collection contains a unique display of 50 old and rare automobiles – the oldest of them being a Marot Gardon from 1897, as well as the license plates, drivers’ licenses, the first traffic regulations and photographic recordings of the birth of automobilism in Serbia.

Address: Majke Jevrosime 30

Open: Mondays – Fridays 11-19h

Accessible to persons with disabilities

Telephone: +381 11 30 34 625

www.beograd.rs

Postal-telegraphic-telephonic museum functions as a museum within the Public Enterprise of PTT communications "Srbija".

Museum deals with the collection, study, protection and exhibition of objects and documents related to the operation and development of PTT communications.

PTT museum was created in order to preserve and protect items and information relating to the history of Serbian Post.

The beginnings of collecting exhibits for the museum can be traced back to end of the 19^th century, more precisely to 1887, when the provision was adopted according to which the Head of Postal and telegraph department handles library and "foreign stamp album".

Later, in 1888, in Regulations on jobs division within Postal and telegraph department, provision on postal museums was expended to: "collection of old and new collections of postal and telegraphic items and handling of the collection".

Postal-telegraphic-telephonic museum was opened on July 31^st, 1923, at the same time when the first Rules of Operation of the PTT museum were adopted.

Museum was established as a section of Ministry of post and telegraphs, and Statistics Department of General section of the Ministry was in charged of it. Museum was located in the building of the Ministry, in Deligradska street.

In 1930 PTT museum was moved to the ground floor of the building designed by the architect Momir Korunovic, in the Majke Jevrosime street number 13.

During 2011, exhibition space, library and museum depots were reconstructed. The reconstruction was carried out in accordance with the latest museological standards.

PTT museum is open for visitors every work day from 10 to 15 hours.

E-mail: pttmuzej@ptt.rs

www.pttmuzej.rs

This museum arose out of the collection of original art items collected by Veda Zagorac and Zdravko Pecar, PhD during their long stay in Africa, and presented to Belgrade in 1974.

 The collection contains approximately 1,800 art items, mainly from West African countries: Mali, Guinea, Senegal, Upper Volta, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Benin, Cameroon and Nigeria. The items represent part of the traditional culture of the peoples: Dogon, Bambara, Malinka, Mosi, Bobo, Baula, Kisi, Baga, Dan, Gere, Senufo, Ashanti, Fon, Yoruba... It is a collection of cult, magic, decorative and practical items made of wood, bronze, textiles, stone and ceramics: masks, sculptures, musical instruments, cloth, jewellery, applied objects and miniature bronze plastics (450 gold weighing weights from Ghana).

Address: Andre Nikolica 14

Open: 10-18h

Telephone: +381 11 26 51 654

www.museumofafricanart.org

The Roma Museum in Belgrade was opened in 2009 at the initiative of the Roma Community Centre, with the financial support of the Belgrade City Assembly.

The museum was thus far host to the exhibits: Alav e Romengo – written culture of the Roma, The Holocaust that Cannot Be Forgotten, An bibijako sastipe – To Bibija’s Health, Our Fellow Citizens, The Roma and the Roma St. George’s Day Meetings, containing the permanent exhibit – Roma Material Culture.

Address: Ruzveltova 41-43 

Open: weekdays 10-19h, Saturdays and Sundays 12-20h

Telephone: +381 11 27 52 283

www.romamuseum.rs

The museum became an institution of the Republic in 2003, while in late 2005 it was awarded the building of the first public thermoelectric plant in Dorcol. The project for the reconstruction and expansion of the Museum of Science and Technology, by the author Boris Podreka, is being undertaken as part of the National Investment Plan of the Republic of Serbia.

 Despite the ongoing reconstruction, over 2,500 m˛ of exhibition space is open to the public, with twenty-five museum collections presenting over 700 items, documents and photographs, audio and video materials.

Address: Skenderbegova 51
Open: Tuesdays – Sundays 10-21 h

Telephone: +381 11 30 37 850, 30 37 950
www.muzejnt.rs

The Historical Archive of Belgrade contains various archival funds and collections, providing important data on the history of Belgrade and Serbia.

The archive materials are mostly in Serbian and German, with individual documents in Turkish, French, Hungarian, Russian, Italian, Romanian, Hebrew...

 The oldest document preserved in the Archive is from the second half of the 16^th century, the “Dialogue of an Ottoman and a Christian on the Military-Political Situation”, in Turkish. The oldest fund is the Zemun Magistrate, with materials from 1749, when Zemun was pronounced a free royal city by being excluded from the estate of the Schönborn family.

 Address: Palmira Toljatija 1, New Belgrade

Open: reading room open for research Mondays to Fridays, 08-16.30h

Accessible to persons with disabilities

Telephone: +381 11 26 06 336

www.arhiv-beograda.org

The Archive of Serbia was founded in 1900 to protect, organize and process, as well as present for use and publish archival materials.

Most of its funds are classified as Archival Materials of Exceptional and Grand Importance, with the oldest document being the Charter of Decani (“Decanska povelja“) from 1330.

 Address: Karnegijeva 2

Open: reading room open for research Mondays to Fridays 09-19h

Telephone: +381 11 33 70 781

www.archives.org.rs

The archive of Serbia and Montenegro is located in the building of the Foundation of King Alexander I Karageorgevich, erected as the King Alexander Home for Secondary School Youth.

The building was erected in 1933, designed by the architect Vojin Petrovic.

The Archive of Serbia and Montenegro has operated under this name since 2003, following the creation of the State Union of Serbia and Montenegro, as the institution that continued performing the work of the Archive of Yugoslavia. The archive preserves materials from the period of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, the period of the Socialist Yugoslavia and personal funds and collections.

Address: Vase Pelagica 33

Open: reading room open for research Mondays to Fridays 09-15h

Accessible to persons with disabilities

Telephone: +381 11 36 90 252
www.arhivyu.rs

The Zepter Museum was opened in 2010 in the representative building of the former First Croatian Savings Bank, in Knez Mihailova Street in the center of Belgrade. It is the first private museum institution in Serbia, with a collection of 350 artworks by 132 artists, which represents a complete view of Serbian art (painting, drawing, pastel, sculpture, installation) in the second half of the 20th century.

Address: Knez Mihailova 42

Open: Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday, Sunday 10 – 20h, Thursday, Saturday 12 – 22h, closed on Mondays

Telephone: +381 11 328 33 39

www.zeptermuseum.rs

The Museum of the National Theatre was established in 2010 in the reconstructed space, in the basement of the building, following the design of architect Milan Pališaški. The permanent exhibition comprises a historical  overview of the development of all segments of the theater art of the National Theater along with a thematic exhibition entitled Contemporary Costumography and Scenography on the Stage of the National Theater and The Greats of the National Theater on Postage Stamps.

As part of the Open Door Drive every month visits to the Museum and the National

Theater are organized and are accompanied by expert guides.

Address: Dositejeva 2
Opening hours: from 11:00 to 23:00, closed on Mondays
Telephone: 328 44 73

www.narodnopozoriste.rs/muzej-narodnog-pozorišta

In the annex of the Nebojša Tower the history of the Tower as a military facility that has been, ever since its construction around 1460, a part of the defensive system of the city.

The exhibition on the ground floor is devoted to the history of Nebojša Tower as a prison, while the one on the first floor is dedicated to personality of Rigas Feraios, a great Greek poet and a revolutionary who died in the prison of the Tower. The topic of the exhibition on the second level is the First Serb Upraising and the creation of the modern Serbian state at the beginning of the 19th century. On the topmost level of Nebojša Tower the history of Belgrade in the first decades of the 19th century is presented, as well as the process of transformation of the Oriental town into a modern European city.

Address: Bulevar vojvode Bojovica

Opening hours: from 10:00 to 20:00 (June – September), from 10:00 – 18:00 (October – May), closed on Mondays 

www.kulanebojsa.rs

Rodoljuba Colakovica 2, Belgrade

tel/fax: +381 (0)11 3676 288

www.msub.org.rs

Opening hours: from 12h to 20h, except on Tuesdays