Military Museum

Although the museum was established on August 10th 1878 with a decree of prince Milan Obrenovic, it was not opened to the public until 1904 in a small octangular building on a Roman well located in the Upper Town. Since it was destroyed during the First World War, it was reopened on April 2nd, 1937 in a part of the building and a hut in the Upper Town of Belgrade Fortress. During the whole Second World War, the museum’s collection remained in Belgrade. The Germans took some valuable and very rare items. At the end of 1944 the museum reopened. A new collection of the museum was displayed on October 20, 1961 in a renovated building of the former Military Geographical Institute. It represents the military history of Yugoslavian people from their settlement on the Balkans to the twentieth century. This installation is basically well preserved. It includes: armaments, uniforms, flags, medals, archival materials, art works, photographs, scale models, etc. Some parts of thecollection are exposed in the open.

Churchs:

• St. Petka's Church

The construction of the building started in 1935 in place of an old chapel, above a spring which is considered to have miraculous powers. It was completed and revived on the day of St. Petka-Paraskeva, October 27th, 1937.

Architect Miomir Korunovic was in charge of the project. While digging the grounds for the Church of St. Petka, the bones of Serbian soldiers died while defending Belgrade in 1914-1915 were found.

• Ruzica Church

The church was dedicated to the holiday of the Birth of the Mother of God. The building was at first used as one of the three powder magazines constructed during the period of Austrian reconstruction of the Fortress. In 1867, after the Serbs restored the Fortress into their power, the powder building, with an added bell tower, was turned into a church named “Ruzica” (meaning ‘small rose’). During the First World War it was greatly damaged, but it was subsequently repaired and renovated in detail. In 1924, two bronze figures, which are the work of N. P. Krasnov, were put up at the entrance of the church, one representing a medieval knight and the other a soldier from the First World War.