Muzej Jugoslavije

Today’s Museum of Yugoslavia was called the Museum of Yugoslav History until the end of 2016. The name was changed twenty years after the Museum of Yugoslav History was established (1996) by merging and simultaneously dissoluting of the two institutions: the Memorial Center “Josip Broz Tito” and the Museum of the Revolution of Yugoslav Nations and Ethnic Minorities. Due to the socio-historical circumstances, wars and the breakup of Yugoslavia in the 1990s, these museums became a burden, unwanted witnesses of the past, traces of which were being thoroughly erased from the present. The funds of these two institutions served as the basis on which, according to a political decision, the new museum was established. Even though this musealization of Yugoslavia was supposed to “put it on the shelf” in accordance with the understanding of a museum as a storage place for “old and unnecessary things”, it turned out that the collections, histories, documentation and employees of these two institutions became the basis of a twenty years long search for ways of acknowledging Yugoslavia as a heritage.

The Museum has different sections.The principa are the Department of fund research and preservation and the Library fund.

Collection of the Museum of Yugoslavia was created by inheriting the funds of the Memorial Center “Josip Broz Tito” and the Museum of the Revolution of Nations and Nationalities of Yugoslavia, as well as by two decades of work on the extension of the Museum fund, that has resulted in numerous acquisitions. The fund of the Museum of the Revolution of Yugoslav Nations and Ethnic Minorities was given the task to investigate and present continuous “revolution in motion” – a decades-long struggle of the working class, wherein the whole of the Memorial Center is consisted of the collection of gifts that is heterogeneous in terms of donors and types of items, their time and place of origin, of materials and techniques, as well as of messages they primarily transferred and layered meanings opened by their further interpretation. Today, the Museum of Yugoslavia has over 75,000 items and its activity is directed to amend the period and phenomena that are not sufficiently represented in the collection.

Collections:

• Archive of Josip Broz "Tito"
• Collections of gifts received by Josip Broz "Tito"
• Emblems, medals and badges
• Uniforms, flags and clothes
• Historical and memorial items
• Collection of printed documents