Museum of Contemporary Art, Belgrade, Art museum in New Belgrade, Serbia.
The Museum of Contemporary Art, Belgrade stands in Ušće park in New Belgrade, near the confluence of the Sava and Danube. Ivan Antić and Ivanka Raspopović designed it in 1960; it was built from 1960 to 1965. Six truncated two-storey cubes, rotated 45 degrees on a rectangular base, create a crystal-like form; the cube walls are clad in white Venčac marble, and glazed roof cuts light the galleries.
The institution was founded in the 1950s and moved to its current building in 1965, designed by architects Ivan Antić and Ivanka Raspopović. The move into this purpose-built space allowed the collection to grow and be presented to the public in a setting made specifically for it.
The museum is often called MoCAB and serves as a meeting point for Belgrade's art scene, drawing crowds during opening nights and public events. The collection covers works from across the former Yugoslavia, making it one of the few places where this shared artistic story can still be seen together.
The museum sits along the Sava riverbank and can be reached on foot from the old city center or by public transport. Allow more time than you might expect, as the building itself rewards as much attention as the works inside.
The museum holds a large research library with thousands of books and documents on art history, open to visitors and scholars alike. Although it is a public institution, the building reopened to the public only in 2017 after a lengthy renovation period that lasted more than a decade.
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