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Theme: Museums, Up to 1 hour in Serbia

Serbia is landlocked, 88,499 square kilometres, about 6.5 million people, and its rivers explain it better than its borders do. Belgrade stands where the Sava m...

Photograph · Damir Simovic · CC BY-SA 4.0

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Reviewed by Elena Voss · Roavina Travel Editor

Serbia is landlocked, 88,499 square kilometres, about 6.5 million people, and its rivers explain it better than its borders do. Belgrade stands where the Sava meets the Danube, and the fortress, the old town and the river traffic all gather at that junction. North of the capital, Vojvodina is flat farmland with Novi Sad and its own fortress on the Danube; south of it the land climbs into hills, monasteries and spa towns that see far fewer foreign visitors. The country is crossed in a few hours, so Serbia is usually visited as Belgrade plus one more thing.

Checked 2026-08-25

Cities

Every city catalogued in this country so far, ranked by how much there is to see.

Practical information

Language spoken
Serbian
Written in both Cyrillic and Latin; English is understood in tourist districts
Dialling code
+381
The country code; each city adds its own area code
Currency
Serbian dinar (RSD)
Euros are not accepted; cards are widely taken in Belgrade
Emergency number
112
One number across the country; 194 reaches an ambulance directly
Plug type
Type C and F · 230 V
Standard European two-pin
Tap water
Not recorded
No verified national source in the dataset

Top things to see

Ranked by importance — sitelinks, pageviews and heritage status, not editor preference.

  1. Museum of African Art Museum of African Art
    02 1 hour

    Museum of African Art

    Музеј афричке уметности

    The Museum of African Art occupies a villa at Andre Nikolića 14 in Senjak, on Topčider Hill, and is devoted entirely to African cultures and arts.

    • Must see
    • Museum
    • Belgrade
  2. Princess Ljubica's Residence Princess Ljubica's Residence
    03 1 hour

    Princess Ljubica's Residence

    Конак кнегиње Љубице

    Princess Ljubica’s Residence is an 1830 house commissioned as a representative court for the Obrenović dynasty. Hadži Nikola Živković, Prince Miloš Obrenović’s official builder, designed and supervised its construction.

    • Must see
    • Museum
    • Belgrade
  3. National Theatre in Belgrade National Theatre in Belgrade
    04 45 min

    National Theatre in Belgrade

    Народно позориште у Београду

    The National Theatre opened on Republic Square in 1868, modelled by the architect Aleksandar Bugarski on Milan's La Scala and Moscow's Bolshoi rather than on a local precedent, at a time when Serbia was asserting itself as a modern European…

    • Must see
    • Art and culture venue
    • Belgrade
  4. Museum of Vuk and Dositej Museum of Vuk and Dositej
    05 45 min

    Museum of Vuk and Dositej

    Музеј Вука и Доситеја

    The Museum of Vuk and Dositej is a single-house museum in the Stari Grad district of Belgrade dedicated to two figures of the Serbian Enlightenment: Dositej Obradović (1742–1811), writer and Serbia's first Minister of Education, and Vuk Stefanović Karadžić (1787–1864)…

    • Must see
    • Museum
    • Belgrade
  5. Residence of Prince Miloš Residence of Prince Miloš
    06 45 min

    Residence of Prince Miloš

    Конак кнеза Милоша Обреновића

    The Residence of Prince Miloš was built between 1830 and 1834 for Miloš Obrenović, the prince who led Serbia's second uprising against Ottoman rule and secured its autonomy, and it is one of the few surviving buildings from that transitional…

    • Must see
    • Museum
    • Belgrade
  6. Railway Museum Railway Museum
    07 1 hour

    Railway Museum

    Железнички музеј

    The Railway Museum in Savski Venac is the national collection of Serbian and former Yugoslav railway history, founded on 1 February 1950. Its first exhibition, in 1953, was titled "Through the History of Yugoslav Railways".

    • Must see
    • Museum
    • Belgrade
  7. Hammam of Prince Miloš Hammam of Prince Miloš
    08 15 min

    Hammam of Prince Miloš

    Амам кнеза Милоша

    The Hammam of Prince Miloš is a Turkish-style bathhouse built in 1836-37, and it is currently a bath nobody can bathe in: OpenStreetMap's own record of the site, last checked 27 April 2026, lists its opening hours as switched off.

    • Must see
    • Museum
    • Belgrade
  8. Jevrem Grujić's House Jevrem Grujić's House
    09 10 min

    Jevrem Grujić's House

    Дом Јеврема Грујића

    The house known today as Jevrem Grujic's House is one of the oldest preserved civic houses in Belgrade's old town, built in the early decades of the nineteenth century, in the years after the Serbian uprisings when the town's Ottoman-era…

    • Must see
    • Museum
    • Belgrade
  9. Historical Museum of Serbia Historical Museum of Serbia
    10 1 hour

    Historical Museum of Serbia

    Историјски музеј Србије

    The Historical Museum of Serbia (Istorijski muzej Srbije) was established in 1963 as the national institution charged with collecting material on Serbian history from the medieval state through the twentieth century, distinct from the archaeology-focused National Museum next to Republic…

    • Must see
    • Museum
    • Belgrade
  10. Jewish Historical Museum Jewish Historical Museum
    11 1 hour

    Jewish Historical Museum

    Јеврејски историјски музеј

    The Jewish Historical Museum (Jevrejski istorijski muzej) opened in 1948, founded by the historian Lavoslav Kadelburg and colleagues under the Federation of Jewish Communities of Yugoslavia, and it remains housed inside the federation's own building on Kralja Petra street in…

    • Must see
    • Museum
    • Belgrade
  11. Manak's House Manak's House
    12 45 min

    Manak's House

    Манакова кућа

    Manak House is a timber-framed merchant house in Savamala, Belgrade, that now holds an ethnographic collection inside the walls it was actually lived in.

    • Must see
    • Museum
    • Belgrade
  12. Yugoslav Drama Theatre Yugoslav Drama Theatre
    13 1 hour

    Yugoslav Drama Theatre

    Југословенско драмско позориште

    Yugoslav Drama Theatre, known locally as Jugoslovensko dramsko pozorište, is a Belgrade institution founded in 1947.

    • Notable
    • Art and culture venue
    • Belgrade
  13. Terazije Theatre Terazije Theatre
    14 1 hour

    Terazije Theatre

    Позориште на Теразијама

    Terazije Theatre is a live performance venue at Trg Nikole Pašića 3 in central Belgrade, with its public programme organised around scheduled productions rather than a permanent exhibition.

    • Notable
    • Art and culture venue
    • Belgrade
  14. Madlenianum Opera and Theatre Madlenianum Opera and Theatre
    15 1 hour

    Madlenianum Opera and Theatre

    Мадленијанум

    Madlenianum Opera and Theatre is a music-stage theatre in Zemun, Belgrade, founded in 1998. The venue presents opera, theatre and other stage productions at a prominent address on Glavna Street.

    • Notable
    • Art and culture venue
    • Belgrade
  15. Sale gallery "Belgrade" Sale gallery "Belgrade"
    18 1 hour

    Sale gallery "Belgrade"

    Продајна галерија „Београд”

    • High
    • Art and culture venue
    • Belgrade

Source: OpenStreetMap contributors, Wikidata ·