Museum of Applied Arts

What it is

The Museum of Applied Art on Vuka Karadžića street holds over 37,000 objects spanning 2,400 years of applied art, founded on 6 November 1950. Its oldest pieces are Ancient Greek coins from the fourth century BC.

In its first years the museum bought a collection of more than 3,000 artefacts from the artist Ljuba Ivanović, which formed the core of what has grown into seven curatorial departments backed by five further specialist units — central documentation, conservation, education, communication and the museum's own library. Its holdings include the Belgrade Armorial II, one of a handful of surviving South Slavic heraldic manuscripts, alongside collections of decorative metalwork, furniture, textiles and photography built up over more than seven decades.

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What's inside

Seven collecting departments: metal and jewellery, textiles and costume, period furniture and wood, photography and the print room, ceramics, porcelain and glass, contemporary applied art and design, and architecture, urbanism and architectural design. Five further specialist units — central documentation, conservation, education, communication and the library — support the collections rather than displaying their own.

A separate ticket covers the permanent Museum of Applied Art exhibition, drawn from these seven departments, alongside temporary exhibitions that rotate through the same galleries. The metal and jewellery department is where the founding Ivanović purchase and manuscripts such as the Belgrade Armorial II are typically shown, while the photography and print room holds the museum's paper-based collections. The textile and costume department's conservation work has been documented internationally — a wedding-dress conservation project from the collection was featured by the Europeana Fashion project in 2013.

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How long to spend

An hour to ninety minutes for the permanent exhibition alone; longer for a visitor working through more than one of the seven departments, or adding a temporary exhibition running in parallel.

A visitor drawn specifically to the Belgrade Armorial II or the founding Ivanović collection in the metal and jewellery department should budget extra time there, since those pieces are not necessarily laid out for a quick pass-through.

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Season and crowds

The museum's own website lists Monday to Friday, 11:00 to 20:00, with the museum closed to visitors on Sunday; it does not state Saturday hours separately. OpenStreetMap's contributor-sourced record instead gives Monday to Saturday, 11:00 to 19:00 — the two disagree, and this page follows the museum's own site as the operator's primary source; confirm the current hours before a Saturday or Sunday visit.

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Tickets

An individual adult ticket is 400 RSD (about 3.4 EUR, August 2026); a ticket for the permanent Museum of Applied Art exhibition alone is 300 RSD (about 2.6 EUR). Students and seniors pay a concession rate of 200 RSD (about 1.7 EUR). Group visits of five or more adults pay 200 RSD per person, and school and student groups 100 RSD per person (about 0.85 EUR). Members of ULUPUDS, ULUS and ICOM, and art-history and architecture students from Serbian institutions, enter free.

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Getting there

Vuka Karadžića 18, central Belgrade, postcode 11000, in the streets southeast of Republic Square.

Belgrade has no metro; trams, buses and trolleybuses serve the surrounding streets, and the museum sits close enough to the old town to combine with a walking day rather than needing a separate trip across the city.

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What to watch out for

The museum's OpenStreetMap record marks it as not wheelchair accessible; confirm current accessibility directly with the museum before a visit that depends on it.

The museum is closed on Sunday per its own website, which the sources for this page do not contradict for that specific day, and the site's own Saturday hours conflict with OpenStreetMap's record — check ahead for a weekend visit.

Temporary exhibitions rotate through the same galleries as the permanent collection, so what is on display in the metal, textile or ceramics departments on any given visit is not fixed; a visitor after one specific object, such as the Belgrade Armorial II, should confirm it is on display before travelling.

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Photography

No photography policy for the galleries is published on the sources this page uses; ask at the entrance before shooting inside, which is standard practice at Serbian museums holding textile, paper and manuscript collections sensitive to flash and prolonged light exposure.

The museum's building on Vuka Karadžića street is itself a subject worth a frame from the street before going in, though no architectural history for the building specifically is published on the sources this page uses.

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Where it is

• 45 min

  1 min walk · Stari Grad

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External links

• Official site
• View on Wikidata