There is no doubt that a primary role of museums is to engage and educate the community. Museum exhibits inspire interest in an area of study, item, time period, or an idea– but there’s more going on in museums in regard to education than one might think. Even the museums themselves have interesting histories to inspire and educate visitors.
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1. Muzeja vazduhoplovstva - Beograd
Visitors approaching the Nikola Tesla Airport are invariably attracted by the large glass-encased round structure that looks like a strange mushroom from outer space that has sprouted in the middle of Srem’s cultivated fields. Numerous military and civilian aircraft surround the mushroom - along with radars and other wonders of aviation technology - clearly indicating to visitors that they have arrived at an Aviation Museum. Construction of the Museum building was not completed until 1988. The Museum’s storerooms and its library contain thousands of books, objects and documents about the expansion of aviation in our country and internationally. It is no wonder that many foreign experts who have had the opportunity to gain a better understanding of its valuable exhibits have declared that the Aviation Museum in Belgrade is a true treasury of aviation history.
2. Železnički muzej
The Railway Museum in Belgrade was founded on February 1, 1950, as part of the former Ministry of Railways of the Federal People’s Republic of Yugoslavia. The first permanent exhibition was opened on April 30, 1953, entitled “Through the History of Yugoslav Railways”. The museum boasts a number of very rare exhibits, books and a large fund of archival material. The museum has interesting models, objects, miniatures,… Collections are mainly in permanent exhibition and in museum depots, except for one part of the Technical Collection, located in the Department of narrow streets Pozega, Loznica and Strugari in Belgrade, next to the depot of the Blue Train in Topcider (Belgrade), as well as at the railway stations in Belgrade, Niš, Lapovo, Prokuplje, Pančevo, Vršac, Kikinda, Sombor and Subotica.
3. Muzej Žeravica
Everything started in the late 1970s from the idea of Milovoe Zeravice (1931-2009) to acquire Fordson 10-20 HP from 1924, as his father Milorad (1909-1968), among the first in the village and to whom he grew up . To have a tractor in the countryside, at that time, there was a rarity and a kind of attraction. It was by chance that he learned from a friend that there was such a tractor around Kragujevac. He went to look at him and was surprised when he found several similar tractors from that time there. At that moment, he came up with the idea to buy them all and thus somehow save the disappearance from these spaces. Initially there was a small collection of several tractors, temporarily housed in an old shed. In the view of a permanent setting, the tractors collected were exposed to the public in 1991 in a purpose-built facility. The central place in the collection is taken by the oldest preserved tractor in Serbia and the wider region, the American “Hart-Parr 30” from 1920. The following are numerous examples from the interwar period, produced in European and American factories. In addition, it contains a part of the ethno setting, with old crafts, as well as a larger collection of old radio and cameras.
4. Vespa muzej Srbija
The unique Vespi Museum in Belgrade came out of the idea to present to the visitors an unusual collection of the Piaggio model Vespa in one place, where they can see different models that, thanks to the admirers and users of this scooter, have been brought into a state of impeccability. Recognizable around the world, accepted as a popular vehicle of the city ambience, Vespa as such is perceived as the most popular means of transport. Characteristic appearance and sound, without changing its basic form, the secret of good looks can be recognized now in one place at the Vespas Museum in Belgrade.
5. Muzej Automobila Beograd
The founder of the museum cars Bratislav Petkovic has a collection of about 100 vehicles, half of which are located within the museum building. The collection includes old and rare automobiles, which are particularly important for studying the development and advancement of automotive technology at home and abroad, as well as the history of motorsports in the region in the twentieth century. The oldest car is a Marot – Gardon, France, from 1897. with De Dion Bouton engine. The collection includes cars from the 50s, 60s and 70s of the twentieth century, including the Mercedes C 300 – D convertible, known as the Adenauer (1956), the first luxury sports car Jaguar MK2 (1963), Cadillac de Ville convertible (1957). The collection also includes original and restored cars, among which are: Ford from 1902 Lancia Lambda 1925, Citroën B10, 1926, 28-58 Buick Opera coupe of 1928, Škoda R6 1929, 1929 Aero 10, Aero 50 convertible 1Z 1941st years, Alvis in 1930, BMW 327/328 1938… The museum owns the ancillary equipment: loaders, horns, lanterns, radios, tools, driver’s licenses, posters, commercial advertising, license plates, parking meters, the first traffic regulations and laws.
6. Vojni muzej - Beograd
Military Museum is positioned on bastion of the 1st south-eastern front of Belgrade Fortress in a building built in 1924 for purposes of Military-Geographical Institute. In 1956 the building was given to Military Museum. Surrounded by fortress ramparts and most beautiful Belgrade Park, Kalemegdan, Museum represents one of the symbols of Belgrade Fortress. It was founded by the Decree of Prince Milan Obrenović IV on August 22nd 1878 on preposition of Minister of Army, colonel Sava Grujić. It was yet another manifestation of celebrating Serbias Independence. First permanent display was opened in 1904 according to 100th Anniversary of First Serbian Uprising and as a part of King Petar`s Coronation Ceremonies. Museum has special library with over 15.000 titles from areas of History, History of Art, Archaeology, Museology and other similar branches of Science and with more than 6000 magazines.
7. Muzej nauke i tehnike Beograd
The Museum of Science and Technology in Belgrade is a cultural institution of national importance. The museum collects, explores, protects and presents scientific-technical cultural goods to the public in order to raise scientific-scientific culture, popularization of science and modern scientific achievements. The Museum of Science and Technology Belgrade was founded on October 6, 1989. Since 2005, it is located in the building of an old thermoelectric power plant in Dorćol, in the Skenderbeg street number 51. Since 1995, the Museum is also an official institution responsible for the maintenance of technical cultural assets on the territory of the Republic of Serbia. Since the opening of the SANU Gallery of Science and Technology in 1997, the Museum of Science and Technology has been participating in the Gallery’s programs. In July 2003, the Museum of Science and Technology was assigned to institutions that perform a job of general interest for the Republic of Serbia.
8. Muzej Nikole Tesle
After the death of Nikola Tesla, an American court, in January 1943, awarded custody of his property to Sava Kosanović. the son of Tesla’s youngest sister Marica. Sava Kosanović was a Serbian politician, publicist and diplomat who, at that time, was living in New York as a member of the Royal Yugoslav Government-in-exile. Following his death, Tesla’s entire property was packed, sealed and handed over to the Office of Alien Property Custodian. His belongings were transferred from the New Yorker Hotel to the Manhattan Warehouse and Storage Co. where some of Tesla’s property was already stored. Packed in sixty packages, suitcases, metal trunks and barrels, the legacy of Nikola Tesla arrived on the ship Serbia in the port of Rijeka in September, 1951. The material was then transferred by train to Belgrade, where it was stored in the Belgrade University Faculty of Electrical Engineering. In June, 1952, it was moved from the Faculty to the Genčić Villa at 51 Proleterskih Brigada, as the street was then known. The Nikola Tesla Museum in Belgrade was opened to the public on October 20, 1955. It was the first technical museum in Yugoslavia.
9. OLDTIMER MOTOR
In 2004, Dragan Markushev in a specially built hangar in the yard of his family house in Branka Radicevic Street 38 in Pancevo transferred dozens of machines of historical significance from the uncle’s barracks in the village of Gaj, where he was guarded and gambled until then. He decided to show these miracles of mechanics and this mild technical culture to motorcyclists, fans, speed lovers, but also those who do not “break the curve” every day, to those who may have never done it. In the meantime, the collection has grown to over one hundred exhibits, making it one of the largest in the region. A quarter is in running order. The oldest complete engine in the collection is English Ariel 557 from 1927. Various models of manufacturers include NSU, Bianchi, Benelli, BMW, Motoguzzi, Norton, Gnom-Rhon, AJS, Zündapp, Horex, Triumph, Harley-Davidson … The “accompanying program” of the collection consists of equipment, old driving licenses and other driving documents, tools, posters, commercials, radios and turntables.
10. BMW Muzej
The backbone of the collection is made by BMW’s big coupes, the models are 503, 2000CS, 3.0 CS, E24 635 SCI, E31 850csi, and as Mr. Obradovic emphasized, the quest for the missing link, the BMW 3200CS, is still in The current: "This 3200CS is complicated because Bertone was designing, but also produced a bodywork, so quality is questionable. Also, there are very few preserved copies. "Also, in the coming months, the end of a long-standing restoration of the BMW 503 with a soft roof, the car that will be housed by Mr. Obradovic in a very narrow circle of collectors that have both variants of the body of this rare BMW- with a V8 engine, made in a total of 413 copies. The current exhibition space works finally, but this, on the contrary, is not. Namely, the salon presents two models, the conceptual design of the building that Mr. Obradovic plans to build in Simanovci for years. Arrangements with the authorities in the Pećinci municipality continue to be a question of the time when the construction of a new building will be started. As Mr. Obradovic explained to us, bureaucracy is the biggest problem, and the moment when the papillary obstacles are overcome, the project is ready for realization.
