MUSEUMS IN BELGRADE - they have what you will not see anywhere in the world!

Cultural and scientific treasures in Belgrade's museums are invaluable, with a unique and diverse museum material. Some of these institutions are unavoidable places when visiting our capital.

National Museum - a symbol of Belgrade

For many years, the immense treasure of the National Museum in Belgrade was far from the public eye, until 2018, when the museum opened, with a new permanent exhibition that covers a huge chronological range from the distant Paleolithic to the art of the 20th century.

Organized on three levels of a representative building, the exhibition is distributed over 5000m² of exhibition space. Representing the entire fund of the National Museum, carefully selected exhibits, as well as the exhibition as a whole testify to the past and art, not only of Belgrade and Serbia, but also of the world.

Among the exhibits is the Belgrade Mummy, a mummified figure of a priest from Ethiopia, about 2,400 years old, chosen by the famous National Geography magazine as its trademark.


There are the best paintings and sculptures by local artists. Among the famous painters of these epochs and representatives of different painting directions, sound names such as Tintoreto, Gvardi, Rubens, Van Gogh, Mondriano, Pizarro, Degas, Monet, Renoir, Gauguin, Toulouse Lautrec, Mathis stand out, and at the end of school modernism was rounded off by Picasso and Kandinsky.

Museum of Vuk and Dositej

Within the National Museum is the Museum of Vuk and Dositej, dedicated to the two most important personalities of our culture and enlightenment. The Museum of Vuk Stefanović Karadžić and Dositej Obradović is located in the oldest residential building in Belgrade, an architectural testimony of centuries of Turkish rule.

Vuk's collection is richer and older, created by Vuk's daughter Mina Karadžić Vukomanović giving the Kingdom of Serbia his legacy. Today, the collection contains personal and family items of Vuk Karadžić, portraits and artistic legacy, the first editions of his books and numerous archival materials.

Dositej's personal belongings are not in the Dositej Museum, they dissapeared in the fire. The museum's collection is mainly based on art contributions, archival material, Dositej's correspondence and books, among which are the first editions of his works.

Museum of Illusion

The Museum of Illusions Belgrade contains numerous installations that represent entertainment for all ages, from 7 to 107. The exhibits are interesting for both children and adults. This completely special type of museum, as some other metropolises have, relies on sensory performances and gives a distorted picture of reality.

Here, visitors get the feeling that there is a thin line from illusion to reality. So the room where you can see someone's head in a tray, as he watches you with a grimace on his face, is terribly scary, as much as fun.

Residence of Princess Ljubica

Princess Ljubica, whose name the inn bears, was one of the most important women in Serbian history. Her residence of exceptional architectural value was located in one of the oldest parts of Belgrade.

The residence of Princess Ljubica, which is still part of the Museum of the City of Belgrade, has been adapted for a representative museum exhibition, as a museum of the memorial type. The permanent exhibition in the Residence of Princess Ljubica consists of authentic furniture that is characteristic of Belgrade houses of the nineteenth century, in the Oriental-Balkan style.

Nikola Tesla Museum

The Museum of the Great Scientist in Krunska Street, in Belgrade, is visited annually by over 170,000 visitors, all of whom, without exception, point out that it is one of the places in Belgrade that must not be missed.

The museum keeps more than 160,000 original documents, 2,000 books and magazines, as well as more than 1,200 historical and technical exhibits and 1,500 photographs and glass photo plates, as well as more than a thousand plans and drawings. The museum provides a unique opportunity for visitors to see the original legacy of the famous scientist - objects and inventions that they will not be able to see anywhere else in the world.

There is also a large collection of Tesla's items - from shaving accessories, glasses, to the boxes in which Tesla's legacy was delivered, to large items - such as refrigerators and beds that were in his hotel room.

Museum of Yugoslavia

Located in a magnificent park with a cascading complex of paths, stairs and plateaus, the Museum of Yugoslavia talks about the period and time when many remember the set and which few want to forget.
 

The core of the Museum of Yugoslavia is a huge collection of gifts that Josip Broz Tito received, both from his compatriots and from many world statesmen. Some of the exhibits in the treasury of gifts are materially valuable, and some are interesting only because of the donor. Among them are a generally known fragment of a stone from the Moon, but also lesser-known gifts such as a model for a monument to Tito's horse.

Ethnographic Museum

The Ethnographic Museum, located on Studentski trg, in the heart of Belgrade, is one of the oldest ethnographic museums in the Balkans, a place where visitors can learn a lot about the life of our people.

By the way, the Ethnographic Museum is one of the oldest museums in our region, and it is rightly called the custodian of the immeasurable treasure of traditional culture. It is as old as his first collections created in the newly formed Principality of Serbia.

Car Museum

This is a place that members of the stronger sex certainly do not miss. The youngest among the technical museums in Belgrade, gathers fans of motoring and technology in general.

Guided by the idea that the car is an invention that contains all the inventions of mankind - from the earliest, such as fire or wheel, to the most perfect, which contain microprocessors - the Museum organizes the recording of educational shows and movies, lectures, stage events and other cultural events -educational activities in order to popularize the history of motoring.