NATIONAL HISTORY MUSEUM (ISTORIJSKI MUZEJ)

Housed in the same building as the Museum of Montenegrin Arts, this museum offers an insight into the political, military and cultural heritage of Montenegro. The artifacts are displayed in chronological order, from the pre-Slavic period to the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. The collection includes weapons seized from the Turks during the wars of liberation of Montenegro in the ^19th century. Coins, flags from the victories of Grahovo (1858) and Vučji Do (1876) against the Turks. There are costumes and weapons of Prince Danilo (the nephew of Petar II Petrović Njegoš), as well as personal effects of Princess Jelena, the fifth daughter of King Nicholas. Among other things, the museum has theOktoih Prvoglasnik, a particularly valuable incunabulum from the ^15th century. The original icon of the Virgin of Philerma, patroness of the Order of St. John of Jerusalem, is also on display.

The museum's permanent exhibition is divided into several segments. In the first section are exhibited objects from the archaeological period found all over the territory of Montenegro. In the second section are copies of frescoes from the most famous monasteries in Montenegro, as well as manuscripts and printed books from the medieval period. Part of the exhibition is devoted to the Petrović dynasty, at the time of the creation of the Montenegrin state (1796-1878) and that of the modern Montenegrin state (1878-1918). The exhibition ends with the events of the ^20th century.