National Museum Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia

5Aleksandra 5:00 PM Dec 12, 2022

National Museum of Serbia, Belgrade
The National Museum is absolutely enormous, with particularly impressive collections of, on the one hand, neolithic, antique and mediaeval artefacts (although these are rarely explicitly framed as such within the descriptions on their museum plaques, there are some incredibly rare, well-preserved pieces such as most of the constituent parts of a Roman chariot or of a hydraulic pipe organ) and, on the other, European art across the fourteenth through to the twentieth century (the French art collection, for example, includes the entire estate of Paul Karađorđević, protégé of arguably the most significant French art dealer of the twentieth century, Ambroise Vollard, and so includes multiple pieces by Renoir, Degas, Gauguin, Pissarro, Matisse and Corot, to name but a few; the Italian, Dutch, Flemish, German, Austrian, English, Russian and Serbian art collections are among the other more extensive ones). I ended up spending the entire day, from open to close, at the museum, and the time disappeared as if in the blink of an eye, without me even having been able to see all I would have liked. It is definitely the kind of place one can keep coming back to, ideally on Sundays when entrance is free of charge (although it is also not terribly expensive otherwise, only 250 RSD, which is only slightly over 2 EUR and under 2 GBP). It is also one of the rare museums and galleries in Belgrade accessible to a more international audience — almost all of the museum plaques include a description in English in addition to Serbian, although occasionally this can be a little stilted and of questionable accuracy (while I was there, one piece by the Serbian artist Siniša Vuković, for example, acquired an entirely different interpretation in translation, going from 'Soba osoba bez lica', understood approximately as 'Room of People without Faces', to 'Room without a Face').

5S. 5:00 PM Jan 7, 2023

Amazing!!
Favourite Belgrade museum! Would recommend to all - this is THE place to visit if you want to learn about Serbian (and Yugoslav) culture, history, national heritage.. Also, amazing foreign artists' artwork is also exhibited. This is one of those places you enter and don't want to leave for hours. Plus, it's very affordable - ticket prices are symbolic.