Museum of Books and Travel | Museums of Serbia.

The unique Museum of Books and Travel is located in the Banjica neighborhood of Belgrade, in the family home of Viktor Lazić, a lawyer, writer, world traveler, director of this institution, and the executor of an idea that has been nurtured in the Lazić family for over 250 years.

It officially exists since 2016, and among the numerous co-founders of the Museum are the poet Ljubivoje Ršumović, writer Milovan Danojlić, academician Matija Bećković, Mirjana Vuisić, the wife of the great actor Pavle Vuisić, director Emir Kusturica, historian and diplomat Dušan Bataković, and many other distinguished writers, scientists, and artists.

In the rich collection of the Museum, gathered over two and a half centuries, there are over a million books from 90 countries around the world. Among them, there are many books that are several hundred years old, as well as legacies and archives of famous Serbian writers and artists, thousands of autographs of renowned world writers such as Marquez, Prevert, Tagore, and others, diaries and transcripts of famous Serbian military leaders and politicians, letters and correspondence of Serbian poets and writers, first and original editions of many significant literary works...

However, among the hundreds of thousands of unique editions, books originating from distant eastern countries and ancient civilizations, with unusual dimensions and shapes, made from rather atypical materials, represent a special attraction for most visitors.

Since there are thousands of "books", we will highlight only some of the most attractive ones:

• Several thousand books written on parchment, papyrus, and the finest silk
• Over 3000 miniature books, smaller than a fingernail, including the smallest printed book in the world, measuring only 3.5 millimeters
• A Buddhist prayer book printed on bamboo sticks, or those with marble and jade covers
• Orthodox books from Ethiopia written on sheep placentas
• "Edible" books made of rice
• A book in the shape of a fan, from Sri Lanka
• Indonesian magic books with leaves made of palm leaves and covers made of human bones
• A book made of elephant dung, from Thailand
• A book for the illiterate, in the form of a 1200-year-old "comic strip"
• The smallest Bible in the world

As the books in the Museum have been "brought" from all meridians, it also represents a kind of museum of travel, with a multitude of artifacts, objects, and authentic souvenirs from Asia, Africa, Indochina, and South America.

Simply put, the museum collection represents a kind of national treasure that becomes even more valuable day by day by collecting "new" old books. In the Museum, you will see and hear many other interesting things that cannot fit into one article, so we warmly recommend visiting the Museum of Books and Travel at Josipa Slavenskog 19/A Street, on Thursdays and Fridays from 10 am to 6 pm.

The ticket price, which actually represents your donation to the Museum, is a symbolic 300 dinars.