Most museums in Belgrade open at 10:00, close at 17:00 to 20:00, and shut on Mondays. The exceptions are worth knowing: the Nikola Tesla Museum is open every day, the Ethnographic Museum closes on Wednesdays (and is free on Mondays), and the Museum of Contemporary Art closes on Tuesdays. Tickets run from free to 800 RSD. Seven of the twelve museums below are within about 500 m of Cookie Beacon Brunch Kralja Petra, our brunch spot in the Old Town, which opens at 09:00. That leaves an hour for breakfast before the doors open. Every row was checked on the museum’s own website on 10 November 2026. Where a site contradicts itself, we say so.
Belgrade museums: opening hours at a glance
Distances are straight lines from Kralja Petra 20a, between OpenStreetMap points, so the walk is longer.
| Museum | Address | Open | Closed | Ticket (adult) | From Kralja Petra |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Start: Cookie Beacon Brunch Kralja Petra | Kralja Petra 20a | Daily 09:00–18:00 | — | Breakfast | — |
| Ethnographic Museum | Studentski trg 13 | Thu–Tue 10:00–20:00 | Wednesday | 600 RSD; free on Mondays | 134 m |
| Salon of the Museum of Contemporary Art | Pariska 14 | 12:00–20:00 | Tuesday | Free | 160 m |
| Museum of Applied Art | Vuka Karadžića 18 | Mon–Sat 11:00–19:00 (see note) | Sunday (see note) | 400 RSD; free on the last Saturday of the month | 279 m |
| Princess Ljubica’s Residence | Kneza Sime Markovića 8 | Tue, Wed, Thu, Sat 10:00–17:00; Fri 10:00–18:00; Sun 10:00–14:00 | Monday | 300 RSD; free on the last Saturday of the month | 334 m |
| Museum of Vuk and Dositej | Gospodar Jevremova 21 | Tue, Wed, Fri, Sun 10:00–18:00; Thu, Sat 12:00–20:00 | Monday | 200 RSD | 354 m |
| National Museum of Serbia | Trg Republike 1a | Tue, Wed, Fri, Sun 10:00–18:00; Thu, Sat 12:00–20:00 | Monday | 300 RSD permanent exhibition; free on Sundays | 481 m |
| Military Museum | Kalemegdan, upper town | Tue–Sun 10:00–17:00, last ticket 16:00 | Monday | 350 RSD | 483 m |
| Historical Museum of Serbia | Trg Nikole Pašića 11 | Tue–Sun 12:00–20:00, tickets until 19:00 | Monday | Not published | 1.0 km |
| Museum of Science and Technology | Skenderbegova 51 | Tue–Sun 10:00–18:00 (see note) | Monday | 400 RSD | 852 m |
| Museum of Contemporary Art | Ušće 10, Block 15, New Belgrade | 11:00–19:00; Thu, Sat 12:00–20:00 | Tuesday | 600 RSD | 983 m, across the Sava |
| Nikola Tesla Museum | Krunska 51 | Mon 10:00–18:00; Tue–Sun 10:00–20:00 | None listed | 800 RSD English tour, cash only | 2.0 km |
| Museum of Yugoslavia | Mihaila Mike Jankovića 6 | Tue–Sun 10:00–18:00 | Monday | 800 RSD; free on the first Thursday of the month | 3.5 km |
Checked on 10 November 2026 on each museum’s official website, linked in the first column. Public holidays change the hours: the Military Museum, for one, lists 11 November among its closed days.
Notes on the table.
- Museum of Applied Art: its own website gives conflicting schedules. The visit page says Monday to Saturday 11:00–19:00, closed Sunday. The home page says Tuesday to Sunday 11:00–20:00, closed Monday, and further down Monday to Friday 11:00–20:00. Tuesday to Friday afternoons are open under all of them; phone (+381 11 2626 841) before a Monday, Saturday or Sunday visit.
- Museum of Science and Technology: the English page says 10:00–18:00 and 400 RSD. The Serbian page says 11:00–18:00, and gives 300 RSD for an individual ticket. Plan for 11:00.
- Ethnographic Museum: the price list says “free” on Mondays under the first block of prices, which we read as the main museum. Its hours and the walk past it are in our Dorćol walk down to the Danube.
- Princess Ljubica’s Residence: on Sundays with the theatre show “Coffee with Princess Ljubica”, it closes at 13:00. Its website showed an expired security certificate on the day we checked.
Which Belgrade museums are open on Monday
Monday is the day the plan breaks. Five places are open:
- Nikola Tesla Museum, 10:00–18:00 (the shortest day of its week).
- Ethnographic Museum, 10:00–20:00, and free.
- Museum of Contemporary Art and its Salon on Pariska. Both close on Tuesday instead.
- National Bank of Serbia Visitor Centre, on our own street at Kralja Petra 12: free, working days 10:00–16:00. It is a stop on our Kralja Petra walk.
- Museum of Applied Art, if its visit page is right (see the note above).
Everything else in the table is shut. On a Tuesday, the two contemporary-art spaces are the ones to avoid; on a Wednesday, the Ethnographic Museum.
Free days
- Always free: the Salon of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Pariska 14, and the National Bank Visitor Centre.
- Sunday: the National Museum of Serbia.
- Monday: the Ethnographic Museum.
- First Thursday of the month: the Museum of Yugoslavia.
- Last Saturday of the month: Princess Ljubica’s Residence and the Museum of Applied Art.
The museums near Kralja Petra, with breakfast first
Seven of the twelve sit inside a 500 m circle of our door. Most open at 10:00. We open at 09:00, so the order of a museum morning is simple: breakfast, then the first museum as its doors open. The Eggs Benedict on Cheddar-Scones (990 RSD) or the Shakshuka di Bufala (1,450 RSD) will hold you to lunch, and a Cappuccino is 385 RSD. The whole card is on the Kralja Petra menu.
Three mornings that work:
- The square and the gospel (Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday or Sunday). Walk down Knez Mihailova to the National Museum on Republic Square for 10:00. In August 2025 N1 reported the Miroslav Gospel, Serbia’s 12th-century illuminated manuscript, on display there (N1); ask at the desk whether it is on show. After noon, the design shops of Čumićevo sokače behind the square are open: that route is our Belgrade Design District walk.
- Old Belgrade houses (Tuesday to Saturday). Princess Ljubica’s Residence, an 1830 house furnished as 19th-century Belgrade homes, then the Museum of Vuk and Dositej in a house from 1739. Both are on our walks: the residence on the Kralja Petra walk, the lyceum on the Dorćol walk.
- The fortress (Tuesday to Sunday). The Military Museum in Kalemegdan’s upper town, 483 m away. Arrive before 16:00, when the ticket desk stops selling.
Two more museums sit on or just off Kralja Petra and publish no hours online: the Jewish Historical Museum at No. 71a and the museum of the Yugoslav Film Archive (Kinoteka) on Uzun Mirkova, with the Karl Malden statue outside. Phone numbers and what to look for are in our Kralja Petra walk.
The three further out
Nikola Tesla Museum, Krunska 51 (2.0 km). You see it on a guided tour of about 45 minutes. Tours start every hour, in English or Serbian, and you do not need to book alone. The museum takes cash in dinars only: 800 RSD for an English tour, 400 RSD for a Serbian one. Some hours are reserved for groups; the day’s schedule is on the plan-your-visit page. Get there 15 minutes before your tour.
Museum of Contemporary Art, Ušće 10 (983 m straight-line, across the Sava). The building stands in a park on the New Belgrade bank. It is closer on the map than on foot, because you cross the river by bridge. Tickets are 600 RSD, or 300 RSD reduced.
Museum of Yugoslavia, Mihaila Mike Jankovića 6 (3.5 km). The complex includes the House of Flowers, the May 25 Museum and the Old Museum. Tickets are 800 RSD, 400 RSD for students, and free for children under 10. Besides Mondays, it closes on 1 January, 7 January and over Orthodox Easter.
For the two further out, take the bus or tram. Belgrade’s Secretariat for Public Transport states that city line transport has been free since 1 January 2025 (bgprevoz.rs, checked on 10 November 2026). Plan the ride in Google Maps.
Not in the table, and why
- Prince Miloš’s Residence in Topčider, a branch of the Historical Museum of Serbia. The museum lists it as temporarily closed for technical reasons (imus.org.rs).
- Belgrade City Museum, new building at Resavska 40b. It is still under reconstruction. Novosti reports that part of it should open during Expo 2027 (Novosti). Its branches, Princess Ljubica’s Residence among them, are open.
- Gallery of Frescoes, Cara Uroša 20. The National Museum lists it as temporarily closed (narodnimuzej.rs).
More for your first days in Belgrade
If you have just landed, our first day in Belgrade plan covers food and getting around. For a route that strings several of these museums together on foot, start with the Kralja Petra walk or the Dorćol walk, both from our door at Kralja Petra 20a.
Photo credit: hero image by Никола Цветковић, resized, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
