Ninety seconds on Centre of Contemporary Art of Montenegro – Petrović Palace
The park is half the reason to walk out here. The palace is one of four buildings this museum hangs work in and what is inside any of them changes through the year; the non aligned collection is the part that is always its own.
Podgorica's largest public park has a palace in it, built for King Nicholas I between 1891 and 1894 as a winter residence. It holds the state contemporary art collection, including work from the former Non Aligned gallery, and was renamed the Museum of Contemporary Art of Montenegro in March 2023.
Four buildings share the park and the museum uses all of them: the palace itself, the House of the King's Guard beside it, the museum's own gallery and the artists' association pavilion. A single show is regularly hung across all four, which is why an afternoon here is a walk under the trees with four doors in it. The holding that does not change is the non aligned material, more than a thousand works given to Yugoslavia by sixty states, and there is nothing else like it in this part of Europe. What a visitor sees of the palace is mostly the outside. The interiors are gallery now, hung and rehung.
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