8/3 Saturday
We
have a few more museums to see today, another hot and sunny summer day. We come
first to the Museum of Serbia. There are crowns and scepters and royal robes,
uniforms, weaponry and artifacts from members of the Royal family, several of
who me were victims of assassination. A woman touring the museum with her
friend and elderly aunt asks me “What do you think of this museum? You see we
had a royal family, we had such a history”
A
little further on, we come to the National Museum of Art, which is mostly
closed with years-long reconstruction. Since most of the museum is closed, our
tickets include entry to two other museums, which we can use tomorrow. The main
hall has an exhibition of the Emperor Constantine, nice enough.
The
hot afternoon sun makes us want to go to the movies. There aren’t many theaters
in Belgrade, but a newer one is just a few blocks from our apartment. It’s
quite nice, a maze of screens in an old building, decorated with American
classic movie motifs. Our movie, Man of Steel, is playing in the James Dean
room. We enjoy going to the movies, so at least we have something to see, but
the choices are generally limited to blockbuster mainstream films, shown in
English with regional language subtitles. We get stuck with an awful lot of CGI
epic robot battle scenes, apocalyptic planet destructions and endless exploding
car chases. Small-budget indie films just aren’t available.
1 Video Included
Belgrade National Museum
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