Belgrade Military Museum, Military museum in Belgrade Fortress, Serbia.
The Military Museum occupies a building erected in 1924 for the Military Geographical Institute and handed to the museum in 1956, on the first bastion of the southeast front of Belgrade Fortress. Inside, a single long hall runs from ancient through medieval to modern exhibits, with labels in Serbian Cyrillic, Serbian Latin and English. Outside, tanks, howitzers and armoured cars line the walls and paths leading in from two directions.
The museum was founded in 1878 and documents weapons and armor from Roman times through the 20th century. It preserves pieces that represent the military history of the region across more than two thousand years.
The museum marks its day on 22 August, the date Prince Milan Obrenović signed its founding decree in 1878. Many early holdings came from families of soldiers who answered a public call in 1904 to donate weapons, uniforms, flags and letters of their ancestors. A book of donors, designed by painter Vsevolod Guljevič, records their names.
The museum sits within Kalemegdan Park near central Belgrade and is easy to reach on foot. Decommissioned tanks and artillery pieces are arranged along the entrance paths, giving visitors an overview of what lies inside.
The museum holds parts of a US F-117 stealth aircraft brought down by a Serbian S-125 Neva/Pechora missile system, displayed alongside exhibits on the 1999 NATO bombing of Serbia, including cluster bombs, depleted uranium and graphite bombs.
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