Memorial Museum of Nadežda and Rastko Petrović, museum in Belgrade, Serbia
The Memorial Museum of Nadežda and Rastko Petrović is a museum housed in a family house in Belgrade built between 1928 and 1935. The house holds paintings and sketches by Nadežda, a renowned Serbian painter, along with documents, letters, personal belongings of the family, and travel films made by Rastko, who was a writer and art critic.
The house was declared a cultural monument in 1974 and became part of the National Museum in 1975 after their sister Ljubica Luković bequeathed it along with a significant collection of artworks. The museum closed temporarily in 1986 and underwent extensive restoration starting in 2023, reopening in 2025.
The house was part of the Professors' Colony, a neighborhood created for artists and academics in Belgrade. You can walk through the rooms and sense how the family lived and worked in this space.
The museum is located in a quiet residential neighborhood and is easy to explore on foot as the rooms flow naturally from one to another. The grounds around the house include some green space, creating a peaceful setting for walking through and reflecting on the displayed works and personal objects.
The collection includes over thirty paintings by Nadežda along with works by prominent international artists like Picasso, Modigliani, and Rouault that Rastko gathered. Rastko also created seven watercolors such as 'An Escape to Egypt' and 'A Landscape from the Jungle', revealing his artistic talent beyond his writing.
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