The Museum of Applied Art (Serbian: Музеј примењене уметности / Muzej primenjene umetnosti) is an art museum in Belgrade, Serbia.
Музеј примењене уметности Muzej primenjene umetnosti | |
Established | 6 November 1950 |
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Location | Belgrade, Serbia |
Coordinates | 44°49′01″N 20°27′16″E / 44.816944°N 20.454444°E |
Type | Art Museum |
Collection size | 37,000 |
Director | Ljiljana Miletić Abramović |
Curator | Milica Cukić Mila Gajić Marija Bujić Draginja Maskareli Jelena Perać Biljana Crvenković Bojana Popović Biljana Vukotić Slobodan Jovanović Dejan Sandić Andrijana Ristić Jelena Popović |
Website | www |
The museum contains over 37,000 works of applied art, which reflect the development of applied art over a 2,400 year span. The oldest artifacts of the museum are Ancient Greek coins from the 4th century BC.[1]
The Museum of Applied Art was founded on 1950. In the first years of the existence of the museum, the museum bought a collection of over 3,000 artifacts from Ljuba Ivanović, an artist.[2][3]
The museum is divided into seven departments with collections:[4]
The museum also has five specialized departments:[5]