The unique artistic legacy of Dimitrije Avramović, one of the most important figures in Serbian art in the first half of the 19th century, is presented at the exhibition that can be seen until May 3, 2016. The most of his works are held by the National Museum in Belgrade and they include his painting and drawing oeuvre.

The Museum of the Banjica Concentration Camp is dedicated to the memory of the prisoners and victims of the Nazi concentration camp from the World War II. The first permanent exhibition, in limited space, was opened in 1969. In 1983, the new exhibition, based on a different concept, was set up on approximately 450 square metres, and in 2001, an altered permanent exhibition, amended to include recent research, was presented to public. Documents, posters and photographs, together with a scale model of the concentration camp make the framework for the presentation of personal belongings, original drawings, sketches and handicrafts made by prisoners. The exhibition includes 400 items. Of particular interest is the Memorial Hall with an authentic reconstruction of a prisoners’ room and an isolation prison cell that strikingly depict the dreary atmosphere surrounding prisoners.

The Banjica Concentration Camp

The Banjica Concentration Camp was established on July 5, 1941 in the building of the 18th Infantry Regiment of the Army of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, whereas the first prisoners were brought there on July 9. About 24,000 prisoners, mostly Serbs, but also members of other ethnic groups, passed through this concentration camp. Until today, 4,200 shot camp prisoners have been reliably identified. Thousands of prisoners who were deported from the camp throughout Europe should also be added to that list. The camp was abolished on October 4/5, 1944.

We invite you to take a look at the objects displayed in Banica Concentration Camp.

You can view other objects owned by Belgrade City Museum’s other collections and institutions in our digital depot.

Opening hours

• Thursday, Friday and Saturday: 10 a.m. - 5 p.m

Contact Informations

Address: 33 Pavla Jurišića Šturma Street

Phone: +381 11 263 08 25

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Admission

• Ticket: 200 RSD
• Concessions (pupils, students, job seekers and retirees): 100 RSD
• Groups: On every 10 visitors, a group gets two free tickets. This does not refers to concessions.
• Free of charge: every last Saturday in a month, children under 7 years, disabled visitors with escort, MDS, ICOM, ISIC, and Euro26 members.

Professor Miloje Vasić had started exploration of Vinča, and he has done archeological digging at the site between 1908-1934, which is still ongoing today, with some discontinuations in the mean time. Findings from the digging site are kept at the National Museum in Belgrade, while smaller portion of the findings is kept in Archeological Collection of Belgrade Philosophy Faculty.

Vinča embodies the very zenith of the European Neolith. The territory of today’s Serbia and Central Balkans had become European cultural centre in the period of 5300-4300 B.C., while Vinča became a huge settlement.

The archeological findings from Vinča and other Neolithic findings in these parts of Europe had changed our understanding of pre-historical humans. The remains of dug out settlements tell us a story of developing settlement culture and civilizational progress .

At the crossroads of strategic waterways and roads, Vinča had become the largest European market at the time, not only because of the value of domestic products, but also because of rare raw materials and objects that reached Vinča from Transylvania, upper parts of river Tisa, lower parts of river Danube, as well as, from the Adriatic and Aegean coasts.

The findings at the 10.5 m high archeological diggings are a proof of continuity of life till this day.

Permanent Exhibition

Cultural layers in Vinča hold true treasure chests of objects of great variety: tools made out of stones and animal bones, ceramic dishes for every-day use, luxurious ceramic dishes, richly decorated ritual vases, a large number of anthropomorphic and zoomorphic figurines, prosopomorphic lids, jewelry made out of various precious materials, and other objects made either in Vinča, or purchased form farther regions of Middle Europe, lower parts of river Danube, and the Mediterranean. Based on each of these findings, as well as, on architectural remains and raw materials that were used, material and spiritual culture of Vinča’s Neolith population has been reconstructed with great certainty.

Archeological findings from the diggings done by Belgrade City Museum, in 1978, are the largest part of Vinča Museum exhibition, focused on the Neolithic period. The exhibited pieces from the Copper and Bronze periods, including the ones from Middle Ages Necropolis, constitute the proof of life in the area, through millennia.

We invite you to take a look at the objects displayed in Archaeological Site of Vinča.

You can view other objects owned by Belgrade City Museum’s other collections and institutions in our digital depot. 

Opening hours

Open from April 1 until October 31/ During other months visits should be announced in advance

• Monday: closed
• Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday: 10 a.m. – 4 p.m.
• Thursday: 12 a.m. - 6 p.m.
• Saturday and Sunday: 10 a.m. - 6 p.m.

Guided Tours on weekend at:

10, 11:30 a.m. and 13, 14:30, 16 and 17:30 p.m.

Contact informations

• Address: 17 Belo brdo, Vinča 
• Phone: +381 11 806 53 34, +381 60 500 51 87
• E-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Admission

• Ticket: 200 RSD
• Concessions (pupils, students, job seekers and retirees): 100 RSD
• Groups: On every 10 visitors, a group gets two free tickets. This does not refers to concessions.
• Free of charge: every last Saturday in a month, children under 7 years, disabled visitors with escort, MDS, ICOM, ISIC, and Euro26 members.

The home of Pava and Milan Sekulić houses in an authentic interior the largest collection of icons that can be seen in Serbia gathered in a single place. In 1970, it was bequeathed, together with a collection of icons, paintings and works of applied art, to the City of Belgrade by these passionate collectors. The collection includes 165 icons made in Serbia, Macedonia, Montenegro, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Italy, Greece and Russia between the 15th and 20th centuries.

The examples of 19th-century painting include portraits by Pavel Đurković, Konstantin Danil and Arsenije Teodorović, as well as religious paintings by Stevan Aleksić, Jovan Klajić and other artists, whereas 20th-century art is represented by landscapes painted by Jovan Bjelić, Marko Čelebonović and Ignjat Job.

Milan Sekulić

In the period between the two World Wars, architect Milan Sekulić (Sremska Mitrovica, 1895 – Belgrade 1970) took part in the construction of several multi-storey residential buildings, private homes and business edifices, among which special attention should be drawn to the old edifice of the Politika Newspaper Agency and the building of Sekulić’s family home at No. 5 Uzun Mirkova Street. As a renowned developer, Milan Sekulić organized major construction projects of his time, like the building of the Albanija Palace in Belgrade and the Banovina Palace in Novi Sad.

We invite you to take a look at the objects displayed in Collection of Icons Sekulić.

You can view other objects owned by Belgrade City Museum’s other collections and institutions in our digital depot. 

Opening hours

• Friday: 10-18 h
• Saturday: 10-17 h
• Sunday: 10-14 h

Contact informations

• Address: 5 Uzun Mirkova Street/I floor
  
• Phone: +381 11 263 08 25
• E-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Admission

• Ticket: 200 RSD
• Concessions (pupils, students, job seekers and retirees): 100 RSD
• Groups: On every 10 visitors, a group gets two free tickets. This does not refers to concessions.
• Free of charge: every last Saturday in a month, children under 7 years, disabled visitors with escort, MDS, ICOM, ISIC, and Euro26 members.

It is not known when Paja Jovanović (Vršac, 1859 – Vienna, 1957) first visited Belgrade. (It is reasonable to guess that it might have happened during his visits to the hometown, Vršac, or on his travels to the southern parts of Serbia in the closing decades of the 19th century. Although he never spent much time in Belgrade due to his painting commitments all over the globe, it remained a place to which he eagerly returned. After the plan to build an art studio for him in Belgrade had been abandoned with the break-out of World War II, in 1950 Paja Jovanović started a correspondence with the officials of the Belgrade City Museum about establishing his legacy in Belgrade. He wanted to bequeath to the City the pieces of his work and items of his painting equipment that he considered “worth preserving”, so that a studio could be set up – the master’s room attracting those who would like to learn something more about him and his art.

The Legacy of Paja Jovanović, including more than 800 objects, was handed over to the Belgrade City Museum in 1952. In compliance with the artist’s wish, after his death in Vienna on November 30, 1957, the urn with his remains was also delivered to the Museum. Just as he wished, it was buried at the Alley of Meritorious Citizens at the Novo Groblje Cemetery in Belgrade on June 11, 1970, on the very same day when the Belgrade City Museum fulfilled the painter’s second wish by opening to public the Museum of Paja Jovanović.

In 1972, the collection was extended by the gift of the painter’s wife Hermina – Möuny Dauber. She bequeathed to the Belgrade City Museum eleven paintings by Paja Jovanović from her private collection and a number of pieces of antique furniture.

Paja Jovanović

Paja Jovanović (Vršac, 1859 – Vienna, 1957) was born into the family of photographer Stevan and Ernestina Jovanović. In 1875, his father took him to Vienna, where he enrolled in the Academy of Fine Arts (Akademie der bildenden Künste) in 1877. Having completed his studies at the Academy, Jovanović travelled a lot and worked for Paris and London art dealers, to settle in Vienna in 1895. He was elected full member of the Serbian Royal Academy in 1888.

In his very long artistic career, Jovanović created outstanding works of art: history paintings (Migration of the Serbs, Proclamation of The Code of Emperor Dušan), genre paintings (Adoring of the bride, Cocok-fight, Fencing) and numerous portraits of famous people (Mihailo Pupin, King Aleksandar and Queen Maria Karađorđević). He also tried his hand in religious painting: Paja Jovanović painted the iconostases in the churches in Dolovo and Novi Sad.

We invite you to take a look at the objects displayed in Museum of Paja Jovanović.

You can view other objects owned by Belgrade City Museum’s other collections and institutions in our digital depot. 

Opening hours

• Friday: 10-18 h
• Saturday: 10-17 h
• Sunday: 10-14 h

Contact Informations

• Address: 21 Kralja Milana Street, 4th floor, Belgrade 
• Phone: +381 11 334 01 76
• E-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Admission

• Ticket: 200 RSD
• Concessions (pupils, students, job seekers and retirees): 100 RSD
• Groups: On every 10 visitors, a group gets two free tickets. This does not refers to concessions.
• Free of charge: every last Saturday in a month, children under 7 years, disabled visitors with escort, MDS, ICOM, ISIC, and Euro26 members.