Perast Town Museum
Baroque Bujović Palace on the Perast waterfront, holding the town's maritime and family collections.
The Perast Town Museum occupies the Bujović Palace, a baroque house raised in 1694 on the waterfront for Vicko Bujović, a captain who made his name in Venetian service and became one of the town's leading figures. Its arcaded ground floor, balustraded terrace over the water and carved stone window frames are among the best-preserved examples of the Boka Kotorska palaces built by captains and shipowners between the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries, when Perast supplied officers and navigators to the Venetian fleet.
The museum itself was constituted on 28 February 1937, when the municipal council adopted its statute; the palace was adapted to house the collections in 1948, and an annexe was added in 2006. Holdings run to more than three thousand objects from the fifteenth to the twentieth century. Rooms are arranged by theme, with domestic goods and dress on the ground floor, a captain's salon of portraits and navigation instruments above, and a diplomatic room, library and armoury on the top floor, alongside ship models, flags, charters, icons and heraldry.
Highlights
- Baroque waterfront palace built in 1694 for captain Vicko Bujović
- Museum constituted in 1937; palace adapted for it in 1948
- Over 3,000 objects spanning the 15th to 20th centuries
- Captain's salon with portraits and navigation instruments
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