Big Gunpowder Magazine at the Lower Town of the Belgrade Fortress will be open for visitors from Monday, 2 June, every day from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m.

Visitors will have an opportunity to see sarcophagi, stelae, tombs, altars, fragments of monuments and capitals, which are part of the collections of the National Museum in Belgrade and the Belgrade City Museum.

The exhibited objects were mostly found in Belgrade (Singidunum) and in the surrounding area, others were found at a number of localities in Kosmaj, Kostolac (Viminacium), Sremska Mitrovica (Sirmium) and at other sites in Serbia, while some of the exhibited objects were brought from Macedonia and Albania. Findings from Belgrade originate mainly from the city center area where, along the route of the ancient necropolis of Singidunum, numerous tombs and sarcophagi were discovered.

The monuments belong to the chronological range from the second half of the first century to the fourth century, widening the existing knowledge of the history and art of this period. The inscriptions on the monuments provide important data for further studying of the population, social hierarchies, cults, trends and distribution of military units in the Roman period in Serbia.

Big Powder Magazine was built during the great Austrian reconstruction of the Belgrade Fortress between 1718 and 1720. The goal was to make a safe powder shelter, a place protected from the enemy artillery. It was often called Odier’s powder magazine. This powder magazine is designed in such manner that a long hallway connects the two chambers. In the middle of the eighteenth century, the magazine was surrounded by a very strong protective wall.

Tickets:

Single ticket: 200,00 RSD
Pupils, students, senior citizens: 100,00 RSD