MUZEJ NOB-A NA CETINJU
Museum of the National Liberation War in Cetinje

Summary/Abstract: The Museum of the People’s Liberation War within the State Museum in Cetinje was founded in 1950, with the aim of collecting,processing and preserving the heritage of the People’s Liberation Movement, the Workers’ movement and the Communist Party of Yugoslavia in Montenegro. The time period this institution focused on was determined between the First World War and 1945. In the then socialist country, anti-fascism and the struggle for liberation were undisputable foundations of identity. The genesis of the Museum as an independent unit from 1950 to 1963, since when this institution has been part of the Cetinje Museum, has been preserved through the archives located within the National Museum. The director of the Museumof the National Liberation War was the famous Montenegrin painterAleksandar Prijić who, together with other professional staff led the activites in accordance with the purpose of existence of the collection and the needs of society. So far, the academia rarely dealt in more detail with this topic, the exception is ‘’The Development of the Museum Service in Montenegro’’ by Đuro Batrićević, published in Cetinje in 1998. The fund of the then Museum contained material that preceded and originated from the Thirteenth of July Uprising in 1941. This event was a milestone in the development of the history of the citizens of Montenegro, that is, it paved the way for the creation of a socialist society and a federal Yugoslavia, in which Montenegro was oneof the six republics. With further restructuring, the Museum material became the legacy of the History Museum, where historical sources from prehistory to the modern era have been and are preserved.

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