Location: Cetinje
Top Things to do in Cetinje
Top 10 Museums in Cetinje, Cetinje Municipality
Cetinje (Montenegrin Cyrillic: Цетиње [pronounced [ t͡sětiɲe]]), is a city and Old Royal Capital (Montenegrin: Prijestonica / Приjестоница) of Montenegro. It is also the historic and the secondary capital of Montenegro, where the official residence of the President of Montenegro is located. According to the 2011 census, the town had a population of 13,918, while the Cetinje municipality had 16,657 residents.as of 2011.
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1. Archaeological Museum and Lapidarium
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5.0 based on 3 reviews
The Lapidarium of the Archaeological Museum of Montenegro opened in 2012. It is located in the courtyard of the Biljarda and it contains representative specimens of displaced stone carving from all the major archaeological locals in Montenegro.
2. Money Museum
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4.5 based on 10 reviews
The Money Museum is a part of the Central bank of Montenegro and it’s specialized in collecting and presenting money and other numismatic material from the territory of present day Montenegro. The permanent exhibition of the Money Museum “From Perper to Euro” is one of a kind in the country. It displays valuable and rare samples of banknotes and coins of different nominal values used throughout one century (1906-2006)...
3. Miodrag Dado Djuric Art Gallery
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4.5 based on 5 reviews
The Montenegrin Art Gallery "Miodrag Dado Djuric" was opened in 2012 and represents the most modern gallery space in the entire country, stretching at over 1.600m2. On occasion of the gallery opening, there was an exhibition of works by authors of modern and contemporary Montenegrin art from the first half of the 20th century until today.
4. The Monastery of Saint Peter (Sveti Petar Cetinjski)
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4.0 based on 253 reviews
Reviewed By rade-bg - Belgrade, Serbia
This is one of the most important Monasteries of Serbian Orthodox church and it holds some of the most important Christian relics. The right hand of John the Baptist and piece of the true cross are laid in coffin over the remains of Serbian Saint Peter from Cetinje. The most amazing is the story that surrounds arrival of St John the Baptist hand in Monastery in Cetinje. It is believed to be the same relic that Saint Luke has found and that was hold in Constantinople under Byzantine emperors until its fall under Turks. Than as act of favor to the knights of Malta, Sultan Bajazit has granted them hand of John the Baptist, piece of true cross and icon of Holly Mather painted by Saint Luke. Those relics have remained in possession of knights of Malta until they had to leave island. After their retreat the knights decided to give all 3 relics to the Russian Czar and Romanov family as their patron. The relics remained in St Petersburg until Russian revolution and were miraculously saved by the only remaining Romanov family, aunt Olga who first managed to escape with relics to her royal relatives in Copenhagen, but then decided to give relics to Serbian royal family Karadjordjevic, as most of survivals of Russian nobility and officers after revolution have escaped in Serbia and were seeing Karadjordjevic royal family as their patrons. The relics have remained in Belgrade in the chapel of Kradjordjevic palace until Nazis occupied Belgrade. Than the relics and Kradjordjeivici treasure were sent to another great Monastery of Saint Vasil Ostroski near Niksic in Montenegro. The relics remained there until liberation from the Nazis and were taken by the new Communist Government in special treasure vaults. After several attempt from Serbian orthodox church to retreat the relics they were returned and are now in Cetnjski Monastery. For me personally this is one of most amazing stories as well as religious spiritual experience.
5. National Museum of Montenegro
6. Art Museum of Montenegro
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4.0 based on 31 reviews
7. Njegos Museum Biljarda
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4.0 based on 68 reviews
Reviewed By RichardJon - Mukilteo, United States
We did not visit the museum itself with our bike tour guides, just this large scale map (maybe 40 feet by 40 feet) of the country. Situated in a separate building, Made over a hundred years ago it is an excellent visual of the extent of the mountains in this country. You would never get that from a regular map,
8. Museum of King Nikola
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4.0 based on 170 reviews
Reviewed By C_and_H_11 - Dublin, Ireland
When in Cetinje, which is the old capital of Montenegro, we visited the Museum of King Nicola in the main square. It's has a nice spacious entrance & as you enter each of the rooms it gets more & more interesting. There are fabulous artifacts & antiques which are so perfectly preserved, & many gifts which were gifted to the royal family on display with really interesting stories attached. It was really a pleasure to see this lovely palace (which is not too big) in such perfect condition & beautifully preserved, with so much interesting history attached.
9. Ethnographic Museum of Montenegro
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4.0 based on 17 reviews
The Ethnographic Museum of Montenegro is located in the building of the former Serbian Embassy and its exhibition includes items for everyday use. The museum houses items of extraordinary traditional handicraft, such as traditional clothing, rugs, bags, carpets, knitwear, lace etc.
10. Birthplace of Njegos
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4.0 based on 11 reviews
The birthplace of Petar II Petrovic Njegos is located in Erakovici, a little village near Njegusi. It was erected by his uncle, Petar I Petrovic Njegos in 1779. The birthplace of Petar II Petrovic Njegos was renovated several times, and in 1973 it was converted to a memorial museum.
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