Зграда музеја као музејски предмет: биографија Музеја 25. мај у Београду

Summary The building of the 25th May Museum, today located within the complex of the Museum of Yugoslavia in Belgrade, was created as a work of art, a gift to the President of the Federal People's Republic of Yugoslavia, Josip Broz Tito for his 70th birthday, leading to his residential complex. The very position and original purpose of the museum building, the meanings woven into this work, and the changes it underwent due to turbulent socio-cultural and political circumstances, as well as numerous events that have taken place here, suggest that this building has a remarkable testimonial potential although used today as an exhibition space. Relying on the theory of the museum object on one hand and the method of biography of things on the other, this paper follows the changes in the value and significance of the 25th May Museum in Belgrade due to changes in the context and its functions. [...]it is shown that this edifice itself can be observed today as one of the artifacts in the collection of gifts to Josip Broz Tito, preserved and interpreted in the Museum of Yugoslavia.