Budva City Museum
Four-floor museum in Budva's old town showing finds from the Greek, Roman and Slavic city.
Museum work in Budva began in 1962 around an archaeological collection drawn from the Hellenistic and Roman necropolises dug outside the old town in 1957 and 1958. Large-scale excavation followed the earthquake of 1979, when the walled town was rebuilt, and produced many thousands of objects covering more than two and a half millennia of settlement. The present purpose-built museum opened in 2003 within the historic core and was given the Green Apple award in London in 2005.
The displays occupy some 400 square metres over four levels. The lower floors are archaeological, moving from Illyrian material through Greek and Roman finds to the early Slavic period, with glass, pottery and grave goods from the necropolises. The top floor holds the ethnographic and recent history collection, including fishing gear, navigation instruments, furniture, costume and objects from town and village households along this stretch of the Adriatic coast.
Highlights
- Grave goods from the Hellenistic and Roman necropolises of Budva
- Roman and Greek glass and pottery recovered after the 1979 earthquake
- Ethnographic floor with fishing and navigation equipment
- Purpose-built museum inside the walled old town
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