Permit issued for the building of the City Museum of Belgrade, 117 years after it was founded

Photo: Facebook/Goran Vesic

The City of Belgrade has issued a building permit for the reconstruction of the building of the old Military Academy on the corner of Nemanjina and Resavska streets, which will become the Museum of the City of Belgrade, Deputy Mayor of Belgrade Goran Vesic has announced, according to Tanjug.

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Vesic said that resolving complicated property issues, that is, partitioning the plots with the Serbian Army, took almost four years.

He says that the project has now been done and that conditions have been secured from the Belgrade City Institute for the Protection of Cultural Monuments, while that a tender will be announced to choose a contractor who will carry out the works, which will begin next year.

"I am grateful, above all, to employees of the Museum of the City of Belgrade, the Secretariat of Culture, the Secretariat of Investments, as well as the Belgrade City Institute for the Protection of Cultural Monuments for the big job that has been done. Now, when I have a building permit in my hands, there are no more obstacles for the Museum of the City of Belgrade to finally, 117 years after it was established, get its own building," Vesic said, reports Beoinfo.

Vesic said that the new Museum of the City of Belgrade will be a place where 7,000 years of Belgrade's history will be preserved, and added that he expects the museum to be completed by 2024.

The Museum of the City of Belgrade was founded in 1903 but never received its own building. Today it is housed in 14 different locations.

The area of ​​the building of the former Military Academy spreads on 17,057 square meters, while the reconstruction will cost around 20 million euros.

Once works have been finished, the City Museum will be the largest museum in Belgrade.