Book and Travel Museum

Our Grade 3 and 4 students visited the Book and Travel Museum, the largest private library in the Balkans.

Behind the doors of what appears to be an ordinary house belonging to the Lazić family in Banjica, lies a secret and astonishing world carefully preserved by the Association Adligat in their Book and Travel Museum. When you open these doors, you unleash magic, transforming everything seemingly ordinary into something miraculous. Under one roof, you’ll find an edible book made of rice, a book made of elephant dung, Tesla’s letters, Edison’s manuscript, and two million other valuable books and exhibits. The name Adligat refers to a large number of books bound within the same covers. Historically, book covers were expensive, so multiple books were bound together. In this regard, there is a beautiful parallel with the Museum of the Lazić Family – a library that is 250 years old, housing 112 legacies from our esteemed writers, artists, and significant intellectuals, representing a wealth of cultures and languages within the walls, or covers, of one house.