We are Opening the Depot
Exhibition Design, Design Research

The project is a showcase of efforts and inner dialogues between designers and the exhibition subject, and how this singular and now distant heritage sits in conflict with the present moment.

Discipline: Exhibition Design, Design Research
Client: Museum of Yugoslav History, Belgrade
Authors: Aleksa Bijelović, Milica Maksimović — Petokraka
Associate: Ana Makragić

In 2009, the Museum of Yugoslavia, previously a part of the Josip Broz Tito Memorial Centre in Belgrade, Serbia, initiated a long-term task: work on the permanent exhibition. After an invited competition in 2016, Petokraka was selected to implement the proposed design.

The decision was to make an open system, an invisible structure, a silent statement of appreciation. Address our inner questions, acknowledge the power of artefacts, and design without the design but with technical intimacy.

Juxtaposed stand the two large fundamental segments of the Museum’s collections, one across the other — Tito’s memorabilia, gifts and personal objects, and the socialist revolution collection of the former Museum of the Revolution.

Project Recognition

Invited competition for the design of a permanent museum exhibition
Museum of Yugoslavia, Belgrade, Serbia
— 1^st prize