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The Historical Museum of Montenegro was opened to the public in 1989 and is the youngest unit in the National Museum of Montenegro. Among a variety of reasons that led to its foundation, two are of particular importance: the necessity of establishing a specific institution as an expression of the identity of a free people and state, and, more importantly, the wealth of the Cetinje museum collections. The Historical Museum exhibits in one space what makes the domain of the socio-economic, political and cultural past of the Montenegrin people. The historical period encompassed stretches from the Middle Palaeolithic to the present time, which makes this museum unique not only in the territory of the former Yugoslavia but also outside of it. 

Plan of the exhibition:

                               1.  Prehistory and the Ancient times,

                       2. The Middle Ages,

                       3. XVI, XVII and  XVIII century

                               4. Period of the creation of Montenegrin state

                       5. The modern Montenegrin state

                       6. Montenegro in the period l9l8 - 1941,

                       8. WWII and Montenegro in the post-war era

The Museum takes up 1400 square metres, with 140 glass showcases and 60 object holders of various dimensions. The central exhibition of the Historical Museum and its essential organization rely upon the following departments: 1) prehistory and the Ancient times, 2) the Middle Ages, 3) the sixteenth, seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, 4) the creation of the Montenegrin state, 5) the modern Montenegrin state, 6) Montenegro in the period l9l8 - 1941, 7) people’s liberation war and revolution and 8) the development of Montenegro in the post-war era. The periods are linked to each other in terms of space, chronology and visual expression, so that, despite the diversity of artefacts, they make a logical museum whole. The overall museum and archive-library collection (apart from the part of materials given out to the museum for temporary use by other institutions) includes over 1500 museum pieces, around 300 archive items of extremely diverse content, over 1500 photographs, historical maps, graphs, samples of architectural plastic art and other materials. 

Archeaology (Prehistory - Ancient times) and period of medieval state Duklja - Zeta, the predecessor of Montenegro)

Unlike the other museums, which are thematically strictly oriented to a specific area, the Historical Museum presents and visually illuminates the general development of the Montenegrin people, and hence includes an array of artistic, ethnographic, technical and other items.

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Illyrian ceramic objects and bronze

The archaeological collections of the King Nikola’s Museum and the Historical Museum, today united in the exhibition of the Historical Museum of Montenegro, present artefacts from various localities.

Roman glass

The artefacts on display speak in their own way of the complex ethnic and cultural influences this area was exposed to from the Palaeolithic onwards. After 1945 the collection was enriched by items discovered at the archaeological sites of Odmut, Beran-krš, Budva, Gostilj and Spila, while the oldest material linked to the ancient town of Doclea belongs to the period from the third to the second century B.C. 

Ancient ceramics

The segment of the exhibition connected to the state and political evolution of the medieval Doclea-Zetan state, as the basis of contemporary Montenegro, contains a large number of photographs, maps, reproductions of documents, reproductions of frescoes and other auxiliary exhibits necessary for the complete representation of this historical period. 

Reproduction of the seal of Archont Petar (X century) an the copy of fresco representing king Mihailo, the ruler of Zeta (medieval Montenegro) from XI century

The photocomposed edition of Miroslavljevo Gospel (XII century)

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