Museums in Belgrade

The Nikola Tesla Museum houses the personal effects, documents, and inventions of Serbia's most famous scientist. Located in a residential villa near the Church of Saint Sava, it holds over 160,000 original documents, photographs, and technical instruments, including Tesla's funeral urn.

An interactive museum devoted to the Serbian-American inventor, with original equipment and live demonstrations..

The National Museum of Serbia, founded in 1844, occupies a grand neo-Renaissance building on Republic Square. After a 15-year closure for renovation, it reopened in 2018 with over 400,000 objects spanning Serbian medieval art, European masters, and archaeological finds.

Serbia's oldest and largest museum, reopened in 2018, with a world-class collection including a Miroslav Gospel manuscript..

The Museum of Yugoslavia documents the history, culture, and legacy of the former Yugoslav state through over 200,000 objects. The complex consists of three buildings in the leafy Dedinje neighborhood, surrounded by landscaped grounds that once served as Tito's residential compound.

The Museum of Contemporary Art (Muzej savremene umetnosti) occupies a striking brutalist glass-and-concrete building overlooking the confluence of the Sava and Danube in New Belgrade. It holds over 35,000 works of 20th- and 21st-century art from the former Yugoslav states and beyond.

A museum within the Kalemegdan fortress complex covering Serbian military history from Roman to modern times..

Housed inside Belgrade Fortress, the Military Museum presents Serbian military history from the Roman legions to the 1999 NATO campaign. Its collection of over 30,000 objects includes weapons, uniforms, maps, and a wreckage section of a downed F-117 Stealth aircraft.

The Ethnographic Museum, located in a neoclassical building near Republic Square, houses over 160,000 objects documenting Serbian and Balkan folk traditions — from intricately embroidered national costumes to reconstructed peasant house interiors and agricultural implements.