Ethnographic Museum
Museum was founded in 1951. It was located in the Billiard with two more museums - Njegoš's Museum and People's Liberation War Museum, until the great earthquake in 1979, upon which the entire museum collection was transferred to Vladin Dom. In 1986, the Municipality conceded to the Museum the building of the former embassy, which in 2002, adapted for the needs of the Ethnographic Museum.
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The Collection
In the period from 1979 to 2018, the Ethnographic Museum organized numerous thematic exhibitions in the country and abroad, through which the domestic and foreign public got the chance to enjoy the rich traditional heritage of Montenegro. In 2018, in a partially reconstructed exhibition space, the Museum got its first permanent exhibition setting. The Ethnographic Museum inherits over 4400 items in its fund, which testify to the rich material and spiritual culture of the population from the territory of today's Montenegro. The items are classified in several separate collections: folk costumes, weapons, jewelry, furnishings and utensils, trade items, textile production items, usable textiles, handbags, toy collection, musical instruments, tobacco items, art collection and collection of items related to beliefs and customs.
Over 400 characteristic items have been separated from the existing collections for the permanent exhibition setting conceived on the ground floor and first floor of the building, with the aim to illustrate the life and culture of the ethnically and religiously hetero-geneous population of Montenegro in the period from the middle of the 19th to the first half of the 20th century.
