National Museum of Serbia
Serbia's oldest museum on Republic Square, holding archaeology, medieval art and European painting.
Founded in 1844 as the Museum of Serbia, the National Museum is the country's oldest and largest museum institution. Its collections span more than 400,000 objects, from Palaeolithic and Neolithic finds of the Danube basin through Roman and medieval material to a substantial holding of Serbian and European art. The museum occupies a monumental building on Republic Square in central Belgrade, alongside the equestrian monument to Prince Mihailo Obrenović and the National Theatre, making the square the symbolic centre of the capital.
The building was raised between 1901 and 1903 to designs by Andra Stevanović and Nikola Nestorović as the headquarters of the Mortgage Bank of the Administration of Funds, and was adapted for museum use after the Second World War. Following a lengthy reconstruction, the museum reopened its permanent display in June 2018 across three floors, arranged chronologically from prehistory to the twentieth century. The display includes the Miroslav Gospel, a twelfth-century illuminated manuscript inscribed on the UNESCO Memory of the World Register.
Highlights
- Permanent display of some 5,600 objects across three floors
- Miroslav Gospel, a twelfth-century illuminated manuscript
- Neolithic Vinča and Lepenski Vir archaeological material
- European paintings including works by Rubens, Renoir and Matisse
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