Yugoslavia military museum in former yugoslavia

[ksc]

just visted during our trip in slovenia the next museums.

we stayed for a few days in Ljubijana to visted the flemarket on a sunday morning,made some nice deals but 99% is too high priced

bought some nice ex yugoslavian communist banners for on flatblocks 3.00 X 15.00 m. and the same size old yugoslavia flag for a very good price

complete slovenia camo uniform 1991/92 period,some old yugoslavian rep passports

not for my own collection but just picked them up for a filmcompany who needed the stuff.

during our stay it was rain,rain,rain so we visit some places of intrest if some of the collectors will go to slovenia the must see the next:

Army museum Maribor

Kadetnica

Engelsova 15

it is on the armybarracks in the new part of maribor,heavy intrest in the 1991-today period

The National Liberation Museum Maribor

Ulica heroja Tomšiča 5

nice collection of WWII items and paritsans liberation of maribor

but remember on saterdays open untill 12.00.

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military museum at pika

kolodvorska 51,nice if you like to see some tanks or any other verhicles no medals or insignia but also good info on the 1991 /92 uprise

good to visit also the postojna cave(karst no military only a photo of el duce who visit it also in WWII)it is on the same route there is a shop in front of the entrance who sells military stuff but tourist prices much higher than you ever saw at Ebay.

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lokev

private military museum,seems to be very good with lots of WWII related items and medals,just missed it during our trip it is on the road to trieste(italy).

Been in Zagreb(croatia) also but no military museum to find,only a few shops who sells medals and been at the fleamarket hrelic at sajmisna road(wed = junk sun = cars) behind the military police army barrcaks,found some ex JNA helmets(for the movies) mixed prices large bulk of croatian current military badges & lots of gipys who try to resell a yesterdays newspaper old car tires and with a bit of luck some military stuff.

place is hard to find by public transport in front of the army barracks go right between the houses and in to the fields there is a small path if you go right(we did)nice walking trip of 30/45 min along the road and river we took the shortcut back into the fields 10/15 min walk

next year we take our car and use the tomtom navigator to get there

on sundays visit the britanski trg antiquemarketfair prices and good stuff

so if any of you know more spots to visit in former yugoslavia and want to share it with others!!!,drop a line.

with a bit of luck will visit next year belgrade there is a army museum at kalemegdan?road

[SasaYU]

Military museum in Belgrade is in the old fortress Kalemegdan.

Everybody in Belgrade will know to point your way.

Museum has a web site : http://www.muzej.mod.gov.rs/

[ksc]

Dear Sasa.

Havla Vam for the info,looking forward to visit it next year( how to tell my wife!!!).

What is the best period to visit Београд - Beograd???? any other points of great intrest(military or non military any fleamarkets),was thinking on may 2010.

Only been twice in Република Србија - Rep.Srbija and that was 5 years ago on the way to Sofia in Bulgaria,and more than 20 years ago by train on a studentpass only been at the railwaystation in Beograd to get on a other train.

Pozdravi.

Michel

[SasaYU]

Dear ksc,

you are very welcome.

I think May is a good period of the year to visit Belgrade (not too hot yet).

I have posted some info about outside exhibition of museum:

http://gmic.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=35044

Apart from military museum, if you are in Belgrade it is good to visit Air force museum, which is situated near Airport Nikola Tesla in Belgrade.

I have posted some info about it on this forum:

http://gmic.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=7393&st=40

You can find more info on web sites:

http://www.muzejrv.mod.gov.rs

http://www.jat.com/active/en/home/main_menu/travel_info/jat_review/mart_2007/muzej_vazduhoplovstva_beograd.html

There is also a good flea market in Belgrade, but I am not shure on which days it works, since I do not live in Belgrade.

Have a nice trip.

P.S. We all have the same problems with wifes. ;)

Edited November 12, 2009 by SasaYU

[Valter]

KSC, Saša, thank you for lots of useful information!

Some update from me:

in Slovenia, it's surely worth to visit private museum in Logatec, owner is ret. brigadier Janez J. Švajncer, probably the best and most knowledgable Slovenian military historian with great collection.

Vojni muzej Logatec

Tržaška 81a

1370 Logatec

phone: (00 386) 1 754 27 81

open sat/sun 10-18:00, For groups, weekday visits can be made with prior arrangement.

page:

http://prohereditate.com/en/museum/C0022/

http://www.logatec.net/static/vojnimuzej.asp

Verys good museum of WW1 is in Kobarid, open daily, more info here:

http://www.kobariski-muzej.si/?lng=ang

if you travel to Belgrade by car, just after Croatian border (or just before, if you're comming from Belgrade), near the highway, is a large monument and museum of Sirmian battlefield (Sremski front) - it's a battlefield where at the end of 1944 yugoslav partisan army (with support from Soviets and Bulgarians) went from guerilla warfare to battle on open ground, like regular army, with German and quisling formations. Partisans, who had no experience with frontline warfare, sustained heavy losses in the beginning, but nevertheless succeeded. The monument is impressive, and despite obvious lack of money reasonably well mainatined, and in the museum there are interesting uniforms (although most of german stuff is fake or with faked insignia), weapons, battle flags etc.

And about flea markets in ex-yugoslavia - it's quite commont he sellers will raise the prices when they notice you're a (western) stranger So, if anybody from this forum comes to Ljubljana, let me know and I'll try to be of some help :cheers: