Military Museum

While we would love to describe Belgrade’s Military Museum as ‘hidden within Kalemegdan’, it is difficult for something to be hidden when there are a load of old tanks outside it. The history of Belgrade is impossible to tell without a litany of military tales, and this museum tells that story with a little bit of Serbian bias sprinkled on top for good measure.

Founded in 1878, a large part of the old collection was carried off by Germans during WWII. The remaining items cover a span from ancient to modern times (weapons, armours, wartime flags, paintings, photographs, equipment, uniforms, decorations, etc). There is a permanent display within the museum building, while on the outside, artillery weapons and armoured vehicles line the ramparts and trenches of the fortress. The most recent acquisitions include a Humvee captured from the US Army in 1999.