Open-air Sculpture Museum | Museums of Serbia

The Open-Air Sculpture Museum is located at Novo Groblje in Belgrade and contains around 1,500 sculptural works. This extraordinary and unique open-air museum in Serbia preserves the works of 130 most significant artists (sculptors) from this region. As a result, in 1983, the sculpture museum was declared a culturally and historically significant asset for Serbia.

Works by renowned creators such as Ivan Meštrović, Đorđe Jovanović, Nebojša Mitrić, Olga Jevrić, Živojin Lukić, Petar Ubavkić, and many other famous artists can be seen within this unique museum.

Benefactors, philanthropists, humanitarians, military leaders, actors, lawyers, writers, engineers, shoemakers, bakers—all have found refuge in one place, and impressive monuments of high artistic value have been erected as eternal memorials to them.

Since 2004, Belgrade's Novo Groblje has been a member of the Association of Significant Cemeteries of Europe, as well as the European Route of Cemeteries. It consists of three architectural-memorial units:

• Alley of Great Men
• Arcades
• Avenue of Distinguished Citizens

Within the first spatial unit, personalities of special national importance are buried, hence the name of this part of the cemetery, Alley of Great Men. Dimitrije Tucović, Petar Kočić, Jovan Cvijić, Ilija Milosavljević Kolarac, Živojin Mišić, Radomir Putnik, Branislav Nušić, Milunka Savić, and other significant historical figures rest here. In total, there are 113 burials, 25 tombs, and 113 interred individuals.

The monuments to Serbian military leaders Radomir Putnik and Živojin Mišić, as well as the renowned writer Branislav Nušić, are particularly notable.

The Arcades are named after the original conceptual design intended for the second spatial unit, as they were supposed to feature arches, or arcades, rather than the wall that exists to this day. This part contains the tombs of socially and politically important citizens and individuals from wealthier families. Nikola Pašić, Serdar Janko Vukotić, Svetlana Velmar Janković, and other significant figures rest in this part of the cemetery.

The Church of Saint Nicholas is located in the central part of the cemetery and dates back to 1893. Nearby is the monument of a female figure in a crinoline, created by an Italian artist. The oldest reliefs in the cemetery are the work of Đorđe Jovanović and can be found on the tomb of politician and writer Andre Nikolić.

The Avenue of Distinguished Citizens is the resting place of luminaries who have made a significant mark on the development of national history and culture from the former Yugoslavia.

The Open-Air Museum also includes memorial military cemeteries of allied forces from World War I, including Italian, French, Austro-Hungarian, Bulgarian, and British cemeteries from World War II, as well as the Russian necropolis where emigrants who came to Serbia after the October Revolution are buried.

Established in 1886, the architecturally and urbanistically designed cemetery in the former territory of Serbia not only represents an open-air museum but also highlights the importance of preserving intangible cultural heritage.

The Sculpture Museum at Novo Groblje is open every day during the cemetery's working hours.