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The Belgrade City Museum ( sr-cyr, Музеј Града Београда) is a museum located in Belgrade, Serbia. Founded in 1903, the museum operates with several cultural institutions: Ivo Andrić Museum,
Princess Ljubica's Residence Princess Ljubica's Residence ( sr, Конак књегиње Љубице, ) is a palace located in Belgrade, the capital of Serbia. Because of its cultural and architectural importance the residence has been designated a Monument of Culture of Ex ...
, Paja Jovanović Museum, Banjica Concentration Camp Museum, Collection of Icons Sekulić, Archaeological Site Vinča and Jovan Cvijić Museum. The Belgrade City Museum contains over 2,500 paintings, graphics, aquarelles and drawings. It contains numerous paintings by Serbian painters
Paja Jovanović Pavle "Paja" Jovanović ( sr-cyr, Павле "Паја" Јовановић; ; 16 June 1859 – 30 November 1957) was a Serbian painter who painted more than 1,100 works including: '' The Wounded Montenegrin'' (1882), '' Decorating of the Bride'' ...
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Sava Šumanović Sava Šumanović ( sr-Cyrl, Сава Шумановић; 22 January 1896 – 30 August 1942) was a Serbian painter. He is considered to be one of the most important Serbian painters of the 20th century. Šumanović's opus includes around 800 pa ...
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Uroš Predić Uroš Predić ( sr-Cyrl, Урош Предић, ; Orlovat, 7 December 1857 – Belgrade, 12 February 1953) was a Serbian Realist painter. Predić is perhaps best known for his early works depicting ordinary people, as well as his many portrai ...
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Nadežda Petrović Nadežda Petrović ( sr-Cyrl, Надежда Петровић; 11/12 October 1873 – 3 April 1915) was a Serbian painter and one of the women war photography pioneers in the region. Considered Serbia's most famous expressionist and fauvist ...
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Petar Lubarda Petar Lubarda (Serbian Cyrillic: Петар Лубарда); 27 July 1907 – 13 February 1974) was a Montenegrin painter born in Cetinje. Biography He was born in Ljubotinj, near Cetinje, Principality of Montenegro. Lubarda's father was an of ...
and others. Among others, it contains paintings and graphics by foreign artists Albrecht Dürer,
Miklós Barabás Miklós Barabás (10 February 1810, in Markersdorf, Covasna County, Romania – 12 February 1898, in Budapest) was a Hungarian painter. He is mostly known for his portrait paintings, including a famous portrait of a young Franz Liszt, done ...
and Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot.


Collections

The Belgrade City Museum collections are: * Prehistory * Antique * Middle Ages * Coins and Medals * Arheogical site Vinca * History of Belgrade 1521-1941 * History of Belgrade since 1941 * Fine Arts and Music before 1950 * Fine Arts and Music after 1950 * Applied Arts and Ethnology * Education and Science * Culture and Literature * Urban Planning and Architecture The museum also operates an outpost in, and documenting, the former
Banjica concentration camp The Banjica concentration camp (german: KZ Banjica, sr-Cyrl-Latn, Бањички логор, Banjički logor) was a Nazi Germany, Nazi German Nazi concentration camps, concentration camp in the Territory of the Military Commander in Serbia, the ...
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New building

By the 2010s, the museum amassed a collection of 200,000 pieces, but had no permanent exhibition space of its own. The exhibits were kept at 16 different locations. In September 2022, a Belgrade City Museum's Salon was opened at 30
Bulevar kralja Aleksandra Bulevar kralja Aleksandra ( sr-Cyrl, Булевар краља Александра, "King Alexander Boulevard") is the longest street entirely within the urban limits of Serbian capital Belgrade, with length of 7.5 kilometers. Known for decades ...
. Museum space occupies two levels, and exhibits Serbian works of art created after 1950. City awarded the former military building at the corner of Resavska ad Nemanjina streets, and the adjoining lot, for the future location of the Belgrade City Museum. Known as the Military Academy Building, it was built in 1899 and designed by Dimitrije T. Leko. It leans on the Building of the General Staff, which was built in 1965. Massive reconstruction and adaptation into the museum, after the project of Jelena Vojvodić, Goran Vojvodić and Jovana Grujevska, was tentatively announced in 2016. Total floor area of the museum will cover . Part of the building will be preserved while other parts will be upgraded and modernized. The entry staircase and portal were demolished, in order to make the inner space higher. The inner yard will be restored and the exhibition rooms, depot, conservation area, library, workshops, archaeological
lapidarium A lapidarium is a place where stone (Latin: ) monuments and fragments of archaeological interest are exhibited. They can include stone epigraphs; statues; architectural elements such as columns, cornices, and acroterions; bas reliefs, tombston ...
and amphitheater will be formed. Frontal outer walls, at the corner itself, will be adapted into the media façades. Left wing will be adapted into the permanent exhibition space. Right wing will host administration, library, workshops and conservation sector. Depots will be arranged on each floor and in the entire basement. In 2018 the first phase of the complete reconstruction of the building was announced. In May 2020, works were postponed to 2021. Starting in the spring of 2021, the works should be finished by 2024 when the museum should become the largest one in Belgrade. However, the first tender for selecting the contractor from 2021 failed, so as a repeated one in September 2022. Former because the only applicant failed to meet the tender's conditions, latter because no one wanted to work for the amount offered by the city. Works were accordingly postponed for 2023, with completion in 2024. Mayor Aleksandar Šapić announced in September 2022 that works will start by the end of 2022, and be finished in 2025.


See also

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National Museum of Serbia The National Museum of Serbia ( sr, / ) is the largest and oldest museum in Belgrade, Serbia. It is located in the central zone of Belgrade on a square plot between the Republic Square, formerly Theatre Square, and three streets: Čika Ljubina ...
* White Palace


External links

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Belgrade City Museum presentation at www.arte.rs


References

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