Hidden Treasure of Serbia
Discover 19th CENTURY VILLA turned into a museum of private life!
Meet SERBIAN MONA LISA!
ART COLLECTION cherished over TWO AND A HALF CENTURIES!
HIDDEN TREASURE kept in the basement for 50 years!
Feel the beat of THE FIRST DICOTHEQUE in the Balkans opened in lower apartments of the house!
And many other reasons why you shouldn‘t miss to visit us!
Entering the House of Jevrem Grujić, a unique town villa, you will be ushered into the past, Serbian tradition and avant-garde. In an authentic ambience where time has stopped, you can drink tea or coffee from the cups used by kings and queens, and see one of the most beautiful paintings – known as the Serbian Mona Lisa, portrait of Queen Natalia Obrenović, while tasting her favourite chocolate cake, made by original recipe from 1890!
Visitors can enjoy an art collection carefully preserved for over two and a half centuries – works of the greatest Serbian painters (Paja Jovanović, Uroš Predić, Steva Todorović and others), antique and rare weaponry inlaid with silver, gold, gems and decorative stones, original vintage furniture from the 18th and 19th centuries, royal gifts, silverware, porcelain, faience and many other valuables and heirloom miraculously preserved through the burning past of Serbian people!
Among many other masterpieces, you will find the oldest preserved wedding dress in Serbia from 1850.
Why the hidden treasure?
During the First World War, the largest part of the collection was plundered! After this tragic experience, during the Second World War, family hid the rest of the collection in the basement of the house, where it remained for the next 50 years! Until recent day when they are in front of you, restored in their original splendor!
The walls of this unique house sheltered many stories and secrets that we want to reveal to you, and there is no one who can recount them better than Lazar Šećerović, one of the descendants who preserves the intangible cultural heritage of this respectable diplomatic family that shaped modern Serbian and European history.
