The renovation work on the Memorial Museum of Nadežda and Rastko Petrović has been completed after a year and at almost double the price than announced. Minister Selaković announced the opening in February
After 37 years, the Memorial Museum of Nadežda and Rastko Petrović will be open to visitors next February, Minister of Culture Nikola Selaković announced on Tuesday on the occasion of the completion of the reconstruction of that house in Belgrade, at 25 Ljubomir Stojanovića Street.
Work on the restoration of the house has been ongoing since November 2023, and began on the occasion of the celebration 150 years since the birth of the great painter Nadežda Petrović.
Two prices
Minister Selaković said that the Memorial Museum, which is under the auspices of the National Museum, was open to the public from 1975 to 1986, when it was closed due to inadequate storage and display conditions, stressing that the state invested 119.740.000 dinars in the restoration.
At the beginning of the works, a year ago, then Minister of Culture Maja Gojković stated that the money for this work was provided by the Ministry - 64,6 million dinars for the preparation of project documentation and the execution of renovation and adaptation works.
Minister Selaković has now told the Palilul residents, in whose municipality the Memorial Museum is located, that they will receive "not only old content in a new guise, but completely new content that will enrich the lives of people living in this part of Belgrade." He also noted that "Professor's Colony is a protected cultural-historical entity and deserves to have a kind of cultural matrix like this."
"We will have a permanent exhibition dedicated to Nadežda Petrović, a woman with an incredibly big heart who loved her homeland and was a timeless, fantastic painter, painter, artist, and her brother Rastko Petrović - a travel writer, collector, diplomat, who was ambassador to the USA," said Selaković and writes in the announcement of the Ministry of Culture.
Bequest
The memorial museum of Nadežda and Rastka Petrović was declared a cultural monument by the decision of the Institute for the Protection of Cultural Monuments of the City of Belgrade in 1974.
Due to many years of non-use, this cultural monument was in extremely poor condition. The outer walls of the museum were falling off, the roof structure and gutters were rusted, and the interior of the building was ruined and neglected: there were holes in the ceiling, plaster was falling off the walls, and in some parts bricks were visible.
The Memorial Museum became part of the National Museum in 1975 thanks to the gift of Ljubica Luković, sister of Nadežda and Rastko Petrović, who bequeathed all her property to the Museum, including the family house where the Memorial Museum was opened.
In order to create the conditions for the exhibition in 1974, works were carried out according to the project of the architect Milan Pališaški, so that in 1975 the Memorial Museum of Nadežda and Rastko Petrović, as a museum within the National Museum in Belgrade, would be open to the public.
The fund of the Memorial Museum consists of exceptional works by Nadežda and Rastko Petrović - thirty of Nadežda's capital art works, seven watercolors by Rastko Petrović, his library, gramophone records and travelogue films, important manuscripts of Ratko Petrović, works of key protagonists of historical avant-gardes such as Picasso, Kiessling, Modigliani, Ernst and others, as well as inspiring art objects of various purposes, aesthetic and utility values, along with ethnological objects belonging to cultures African and American peoples.
All exhibits from this Memorial Museum are stored in the depot of the National Museum.
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