Njegoš Museum (Biljarda)

Name: Njegoš Museum (Biljarda)
Address: Cetinje, Montenegro

Museum

Museum · Cetinje, Montenegro 42.3878°N 18.9230°E

Why you should go

Ninety seconds on Njegoš Museum (Biljarda)

Time needed

45 minutes

Best time

In by 4.30pmSummer last admission

Cost

TicketedRelief map on the ticket

Season

Mid-Apr to mid-NovWinter: weekdays to 3pm

Before you drive to Lovćen or back to the coast, stand over the relief map in the courtyard to see the road ahead. Buy the Biljarda ticket, not the map-only one: it covers the house as well.

Visiting

Spend most of your time in the courtyard. The map there is cast in concrete at one to ten thousand, and it runs past the border into Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Albania and Serbia. Find the serpentine up from Kotor and the Lovćen massif first, then the lake.

Beside it is a lapidarium of carved stones from the country's archaeological sites, grave slabs among them.

The house is an exhibition, not a preserved home. It holds Njegoš's belongings, furniture, artworks, library and manuscripts, and its prize is the original manuscript of The Mountain Wreath.

Know before you goThe collective ticket covers every unit of the National Museum plus the Lovćen mausoleum. In winter the house opens on weekdays, but the map is closed from mid-November to mid-April.