Description of the attraction
The collection of the Belgrade Museum of Contemporary Art has more than 35 thousand exhibits. The earliest of them date back to the beginning of the twentieth century. This collection contains paintings of the first half of the last century, paintings of the post-war period. In addition, the museum presents a collection of sculpture, engravings, drawings, and a detached house - works of multimedia art: photographs and videos.
Among these works one can see works not only by Yugoslav and Serbian artists, but also by masters widely known throughout the world, such as Juan Miro and Andy Warhol.
The museum was founded in 1958, but the arrangement of its building, the formation of collections continued until 1965. The expositions of the museum can be seen at four addresses. One of them, the main one, is located in the Ušce skyscraper - the second tallest building in Serbia and the first in Belgrade. The museum salon is located on Pariska street, there are two galleries - Rodolyub Cholakovich on the street of the same name and Peter Dobrovich on Kralia Petra street.
A few words can be said about each of these branches of the museum. Ushce, where the headquarters of the Central Committee of the Union of Communists of Yugoslavia was located, was bombed in April 1999: the building received 12 rocket attacks, the tower was badly damaged, but not destroyed, and was subsequently rebuilt. The salon was opened earlier than the museum itself - in 1961. In the Cholakovich gallery, in addition to painting, there are also glass and porcelain items, carpets, antique furniture. The gallery was opened in a building donated to Belgrade by statesman Rodoljub Cholakovic. It hosts promotions and other events. Another gallery was opened in the house where the famous artist Petr Dobrovich lived and worked in 1974.
