Centre of Contemporary Art of Montenegro – Petrović Palace

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Gallery · Podgorica, Montenegro 42.4378°N 19.2503°E

Why you should go

Ninety seconds on the Centre of Contemporary Art of Montenegro – Petrović Palace

Time needed

An hourTwo for all the buildings

Best time

During a showCheck the calendar

Cost

TicketedFree first Wednesdays

Effort

EasyA park walk between venues

Access

Four buildingsOne in the city centre

Guide

Not neededGo on your own

Hours

What are the opening hours of Petrović Palace in Podgorica?

As of 2026, Tuesday to Sunday, from 10:30 to 18:30, with no opening on Mondays. The same hours apply across the museum's three exhibition spaces: the palace, the House of the King's Guard and the gallery in the city centre. The palace has its own phone line, +382 20 243 513.

Free entry

Is Petrović Palace in Podgorica free to enter, and is there a free day?

Not usually, but the first Wednesday of every month is free for all visitors. Children up to 12 go in free on any day, and so do organised school visits. Otherwise entry is ticketed, and one ticket covers every exhibition space the museum runs, the city-centre gallery included.

What's inside

What is Petrović Palace in Podgorica, and what is inside it?

A royal residence turned art museum. The palace was built in 1891 for the Petrović dynasty, carries cultural monument status and is now the headquarters of the Museum of Contemporary Art of Montenegro. The museum's fund runs to more than 1,000 works from 60 non-aligned countries, a collection without match in south-eastern Europe.

The buildings

Which buildings make up the museum at Petrović Palace, and are they all in Kruševac park?

No, one of them is across town. The palace and the House of the King's Guard stand together in the Kruševac palace complex. The museum's gallery is in the former Lexicographic Institute at Njegoševa 2, in the very centre of Podgorica. A single ticket covers all three, so a show split between them costs one entry.

A royal winter palace beside the Morača now holds art from some sixty non-aligned countries, a collection billed as unique in south-eastern Europe. Not all of it is on the walls at once, because the exhibitions change through the year.

What makes it special

The palace is the centrepiece of the Kruševac complex, a former Petrović residence that is now a listed cultural monument and one of the museum's exhibition venues. Walk round the outside on the park paths as well as through the galleries inside.

The holdings began as the Josip Broz Tito Art Gallery of the Non-Aligned Countries. They are kept today as five collections: the non-aligned gallery, painting, drawings and watercolours, sculpture and installations, and new media.

Exhibitions draw on that fund as well as bringing work in. One recent show was staged in dialogue with selected works and gifts from the collection, so new work can hang beside older pieces.

Visiting

Four buildings host the museum's shows: the palace and the House of the King's Guard beside it in Kruševac park, the artists' association pavilion, and the museum's own gallery at Njegoševa 2 in the city centre. Start in the palace, then move on to the others, because a single show can run across several of them.

Large shows are split into sections by building. The Montenegro Today survey, which closed in September, put its Identity section in the palace and spread the rest through the other spaces, so find out which section is where before you start walking.

Tips

A show held in the palace alone makes a short visit for the ticket. Time your trip for one that spreads across the park, and keep the afternoon free for it.

When a show is shared between the two buildings in the park, see them back to back.

Know before you goAs of October 2026, a Mirosław Bałka solo show runs across the park buildings until 18 January 2027. As of 2026 the museum opens Tuesday to Sunday and closes on Mondays.