Editing Belgrade (section)

===Museums===
{{See also|List of museums in Belgrade}}
[[File:Museum of Yugoslavia.jpg|thumb|left|[[Museum of Yugoslavia]]]]
The most prominent museum in Belgrade is the [[National Museum of Serbia|National Museum]], founded in 1844 and reconstructed from 2003 until June 2018. The museum houses a collection of more than 400,000 exhibits (over 5600 paintings and 8400 drawings and prints, including many foreign masters like [[Hieronymus Bosch|Bosch]], [[Juan de Flandes]], [[Titian]], [[Tintoretto]], [[Peter Paul Rubens|Rubens]], [[Cézanne]], [[Giovanni Battista Tiepolo|G.B. Tiepolo]], [[Pierre-Auguste Renoir|Renoir]], [[Claude Monet|Monet]], [[Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec|Lautrec]], [[Henri Matisse|Matisse]], [[Pablo Picasso|Picasso]], [[Paul Gauguin|Gauguin]], [[Marc Chagall|Chagall]], [[Vincent van Gogh|Van Gogh]], [[Piet Mondrian|Mondrian]] etc.) and also the famous [[Miroslav's Gospel]].<ref>{{cite web |last=Cvjetićanin |first=Tatjana |url=http://www.narodnimuzej.rs/code/navigate.php?Id=75 |title=From the history of the National Museum in Belgrade |publisher=National Museum of Serbia |access-date=27 July 2007 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110814163742/http://www.narodnimuzej.rs/code/navigate.php?Id=75 |archive-date=14 August 2011}}</ref> The [[Ethnographic Museum (Belgrade)|Ethnographic Museum]], established in 1901, contains more than 150,000 items showcasing the rural and urban culture of the Balkans, particularly the countries of [[former Yugoslavia]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.beograd.rs/cms/view.php?id=201167 |title=Museums 3 |publisher=Beograd.rs |website=Discover Belgrade |access-date=12 July 2008 |archive-date=24 September 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140924065021/http://www.beograd.rs/cms/view.php?id=201167 |url-status=live }}</ref>

The [[Museum of Contemporary Art (Belgrade)|Museum of Contemporary Art]] was the first contemporary art museum in Yugoslavia and one of the first museums of this type in the world.<ref>{{Cite book |title=Knjiga o Lubardi |last=Lompar |first=Milo |publisher=[[Serbian Literary Guild]] |page=181 |year=2018 |location=Beograd}}</ref> Following its foundation in 1965, has amassed a collection of more than 8,000 works from art produced across the former Yugoslavia.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://eng.msub.org.rs/o-muzeju |title=About the Museum |website=eng.msub.org.rs |access-date=30 March 2019 |archive-date=30 March 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190330193549/http://eng.msub.org.rs/o-muzeju |url-status=dead}}</ref> The collection represents some of the most notable Serbian and Yugoslav 20th century artists, including [[Sava Šumanović]], [[Nadežda Petrović]], [[Petar Dobrović]], [[Milena Pavlović-Barili]], [[Milan Konjović]], [[Zora Petrović]], [[Đorđe Andrejević Kun]], [[Vladimir Veličković]], [[Petar Lubarda]], [[Krsto Hegedušić]], [[Mića Popović]], [[Ivan Meštrović]], [[Antun Augustinčić]], [[Toma Rosandić]], [[Olga Jevrić]], [[Olga Jančić]], [[Lojze Dolinar]], among others.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2019-01-11 |title=Kolekcija - Muzej Savremene Umetnosti |url=https://msub.org.rs/kolekcija/ |access-date=2025-01-15 |language=sr-lat}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Mučibabić |first=Daliborka |title=Arhitektonski dragulj koji iznova mami |url=https://www.politika.rs/sr/clanak/408251/Arhitektonski-dragulj-koji-iznova-mami |access-date=2025-01-15 |website=Politika Online}}</ref> The museum was closed in 2007, but has since been reopened in 2017 to focus on the modern as well as on the Yugoslav art scenes.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-23841398 |title=Art gathers dust as Serbia museums kept shut |date=27 August 2013 |work=BBC News |access-date=20 June 2018 |archive-date=6 July 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180706150043/https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-23841398 |url-status=live }}</ref> Artist [[Marina Abramović]], who was born in Belgrade, held an exhibition in the Museum of Contemporary Art, which the ''[[The New York Times|New York Times]]'' described as one of the most important cultural happenings in the world in 2019.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/09/arts/design/fall-art-exhibitions-louvre-leonardo-brancusi-kara-walker.html |title=28 Art Shows Worth Traveling For |work=The New York Times |date=9 September 2019 |access-date=14 July 2021 |url-access=subscription |last1=Farago |first1=Jason |archive-date=16 April 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210416110435/https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/09/arts/design/fall-art-exhibitions-louvre-leonardo-brancusi-kara-walker.html |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/25/arts/design/marina-abramovic-the-cleaner.html |title=Marina Abramovic Comes Home, and Comes Clean |work=The New York Times |date=25 September 2019 |access-date=14 July 2021 |url-access=subscription |last1=Dickson |first1=Andrew |archive-date=29 July 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210729152645/https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/25/arts/design/marina-abramovic-the-cleaner.html |url-status=live }}</ref> The exhibition was seen by almost 100,000 visitors. Marina Abramović made a stage speech and performance in front of 20,000 people.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EFH1BYUjmMA |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211114/EFH1BYUjmMA |archive-date=14 November 2021 |url-status=live |title=Marina Abramovic-Javno predavanje "CISTAC/CLEANER"-Beograd-MSU 29.09.2019.-Deo 1 |website=YouTube |date=3 October 2019 |access-date=14 July 2021}}{{cbignore}}</ref> In the heart of Belgrade you can also find the [[Museum of Applied Arts, Belgrade|Museum of Applied Arts]], a museum that has been awarded for the Institution of the Year 2016 by [[International Council of Museums|ICOM]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=ICOM Serbia, Award for the Institution of the Year 2016 – Музеј примењене уметности БеоградМузеј примењене уметности Београд |url=https://mpu.rs/en/about-museum/icom-serbia-award-for-the-institution-of-the-year-2016/ |access-date=2022-10-18 |website=Музеј примењене уметности Београд}}</ref>
[[File:Museum of contemporary art, Belgrade (Музеј савремене уметности Београд).jpg|thumb|right|[[Museum of Contemporary Art, Belgrade|Museum of Contemporary Art]]]]
The [[Military Museum (Belgrade)|Military Museum]], established in 1878 in Kalemegdan, houses a wide range of more than 25,000 military objects dating from the prehistoric to the medieval to the modern eras. Notable items include Turkish and oriental arms, national banners, and [[Yugoslav Partisans|Yugoslav Partisan]] regalia.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.lonelyplanet.com/serbia/belgrade/sights/museum/military-museum |title=Military Museum |publisher=[[Lonely Planet]] |access-date=18 January 2010 |archive-date=20 October 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131020204811/http://www.lonelyplanet.com/serbia/belgrade/sights/museum/military-museum |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.muzej.mod.gov.rs/en/about-us/ |title=Military Museum {{!}} About Us |website=muzej.mod.gov.rs |access-date=30 March 2019 |archive-date=30 March 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190330193600/http://www.muzej.mod.gov.rs/en/about-us/#.XJ_EJJhKiUk |url-status=live }}</ref>

The [[Museum of Aviation in Belgrade]] located near [[Belgrade Nikola Tesla Airport]] has more than 200 aircraft, of which about 50 are on display, and a few of which are the only surviving examples of their type, such as the [[Fiat G.50]]. This museum also displays parts of shot down US and [[NATO]] aircraft, such as the [[F-117 Nighthawk|F-117]] and [[F-16 Fighting Falcon|F-16]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.muzejrv.org/istorija/istorija.html |title=Lična karta Muzeja ratnog vazduhoplovstva |publisher=Museum of Air force Belgrade |access-date=19 May 2007 |language=sr |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060528075833/http://www.muzejrv.org/istorija/istorija.html |archive-date=28 May 2006 |url-status=dead}}</ref>

The [[Nikola Tesla Museum]], founded in 1952, preserves the personal items of [[Nikola Tesla]], the inventor after whom the [[Tesla (unit)|Tesla unit]] was named. It holds around 160,000 original documents and around 5,700 personal other items including his urn.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.tesla-museum.org/meni_en/nt.php?link=muzej/m&opc=sub2 |publisher=Nikola Tesla Museum |title=About the museum |access-date=10 July 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070610092417/http://www.tesla-museum.org/meni_en/nt.php?link=muzej%2Fm&opc=sub2 |archive-date=10 June 2007 |url-status=dead}}</ref> The last of the major Belgrade museums is the [[Museum of Vuk and Dositej]], which showcases the lives, work and legacy of [[Vuk Stefanović Karadžić]] and [[Dositej Obradović]], the 19th century reformer of the Serbian literary language and the first Serbian Minister of Education, respectively.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.beograd.rs/cms/view.php?id=201051 |title=City of Belgrade – Museums 1 |publisher=Beograd.rs |access-date=10 July 2007 |archive-date=3 March 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303191402/http://www.beograd.rs/cms/view.php?id=201051 |url-status=live }}</ref> Belgrade also houses the [[Museum of African Art, Serbia|Museum of African Art]], founded in 1977, which has a large collection of art from West Africa.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.beograd.rs/cms/view.php?id=202308 |title=Cultural institutions: Museum of African Art |publisher=Beograd.rs |access-date=10 July 2007 |archive-date=24 September 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140924064317/http://www.beograd.rs/cms/view.php?id=202308 |url-status=live }}</ref>

With around 95,000 copies of national and international films, the [[Yugoslav Film Archive]] is the largest in the region and among the 10 largest archives in the world.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.ear.europa.eu/serbia/main/documents/2006Media.pdf |title=Action programme 2006 for Serbia: Support to the Yugoslav Film Archive |publisher=European Agency for Reconstruction |date=1 January 2006 |access-date=10 July 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070802113127/http://www.ear.europa.eu/serbia/main/documents/2006Media.pdf |archive-date=2 August 2007 |url-status=dead}}</ref> The institution also operates the Museum of Yugoslav Film Archive, with movie theatre and exhibition hall. The archive's long-standing storage problems were finally solved in 2007, when a new modern depository was opened.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://seecult.org/english/module-News-display-sid-211.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071011202918/http://seecult.org/english/module-News-display-sid-211.html |archive-date=11 October 2007 |title=New Depository for the Yugoslav Film Archive's treasure |publisher=SEECult.org, Culture Portal of Southeastern Europe |date=7 June 2007 |access-date=10 July 2007 |url-status=dead}}</ref> The [[Yugoslav Film Archive]] also exhibits original [[Charlie Chaplin]]'s stick and one of the first movies by [[Auguste and Louis Lumière]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.novosti.rs/vesti/kultura.71.html:433237-U-Noci-muzeja-60-kulturnih-institucija |title=U Noći muzeja 60 kulturnih institucija |publisher=novosti.rs |access-date=3 June 2013 |archive-date=9 August 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180809121012/http://www.novosti.rs/vesti/kultura.71.html:433237-U-Noci-muzeja-60-kulturnih-institucija |url-status=live }}</ref>

The [[Belgrade City Museum]] moved into a new building in downtown in 2006.<ref>{{citation |url=http://www.mgb.org.rs/en/the-new-museum-building |title=The New Museum's Building |access-date=26 February 2013 |publisher=Belgrade City Museum |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130401012108/http://www.mgb.org.rs/en/the-new-museum-building |archive-date=1 April 2013}}</ref> The museum hosts a range of collections covering the history of urban life since prehistory.<ref>{{citation |url=http://www.mgb.org.rs/en/collections |title=Collections |access-date=26 February 2013 |publisher=Belgrade City Museum |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130401011549/http://www.mgb.org.rs/en/collections |archive-date=1 April 2013}}</ref> Belgrade City Museum also includes additional sites, such as [[Museum of Ivo Andrić|Ivo Andrić Museum]], [[Princess Ljubica's Residence]], [[Museum of Paja Jovanović|Paja Jovanović Museum]], [[Jovan Cvijić House|Jovan Cvijić Museum]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Музеј града Београда - О нама |url=http://www.mgb.org.rs/about/ |access-date=2024-12-21 |website=www.mgb.org.rs}}</ref> The [[Museum of Yugoslavia]] has collections from the Yugoslav era. Beside paintings, the most valuable are [[Moon]] rocks donated by [[Apollo 11]] crew [[Neil Armstrong]], [[Buzz Aldrin]] and [[Michael Collins (astronaut)|Michael Collins]] while visiting Belgrade in 1969 and from mission [[Apollo 17]] donated by [[Richard Nixon]] in 1971.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.seecult.org/vest/najbolje-u-muzeju-25-maj |title=Najbolje, u Muzeju 25. maj – SEEcult.org Portal za kulturu jugoistočne Evrope |date=4 September 2012 |publisher=seecult.org |access-date=3 June 2013 |archive-date=10 November 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131110051850/http://www.seecult.org/vest/najbolje-u-muzeju-25-maj |url-status=live }}</ref> The museum also houses [[Joseph Stalin]]'s sabre with 260 brilliants and diamonds, donated by Stalin himself.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.politika.rs/rubrike/Drustvo/Od-Staljina-sablja-a-od-astronauta-kamenchici-s-Meseca.lt.html |title=Политика Online – Од Стаљина сабља, а од астронаута каменчићи с Месеца |work=Politika Online |access-date=3 June 2013 |archive-date=10 November 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131110051853/http://www.politika.rs/rubrike/Drustvo/Od-Staljina-sablja-a-od-astronauta-kamenchici-s-Meseca.lt.html |url-status=live }}</ref> The [[Museum of Science and Technology (Belgrade)|Museum of Science and Technology]], founded in 1989, moved to the building of the first city's power plant in Dorćol in 2005.<ref>{{citation |url=http://www.muzejnt.rs/en/206 |title=Project for Reconstruction and Adaptation of the Museum of Science and Technology |publisher=Museum of Science and Technology |access-date=26 February 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130511075002/http://www.muzejnt.rs/en/206 |archive-date=11 May 2013 |url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=О Музеју |url=https://muzejnt.rs/eng/istorijat-muzeja/ |access-date=2024-12-21 |website=Музеј науке и технике |language=en-GB}}</ref>