King Nikola's Museum

Name: King Nikola's Museum
Address: Cetinje, Montenegro

Museum

Museum · Cetinje, Montenegro 42.3875°N 18.9244°E

Why you should go

Ninety seconds on King Nikola's Museum

Guide

RequiredGuided visits only

Time needed

an hour

Cost

TicketedOr the collective ticket

Season

Daily, mid-Apr onWeekdays in winter, to 3pm

Access

Guided entryGroups form at the door

Waiting for a group to form at the door is part of the visit, because the palace is seen by guided tour only. Afterwards, leave by the back, where the royal garden is the best shade in town between museums.

Visiting

The tour starts with the crown jewels, then runs through a reconstructed royal interior: period furniture, portraits, oriental rugs, weapons, royal garments and insignia. Many of the furnishings were gifts from foreign courts.

The palace was looted in the Second World War, and the rooms are set with what came back. Look for the royal library, which holds copies of books from the Crnojević press, the first printed among the South Slavs, including an Oktoih of 1493.

Out the back, the garden runs as a pine alley to a cedar grove and a small villa. Bring a picnic.

Know before you goThe palace has its own ticket, and the collective ticket also covers it, with every other unit of the National Museum and the Lovćen mausoleum. The last group goes in half an hour before closing.