Adligat

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Adligat
Адлигат
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Adligat
Location Belgrade, Banjica, Serbia
DirectorViktor Lazić
Website www.adligat.rs

Adligat is a civil society organization which operates in the area of culture, arts and furthering the international cooperation of Serbia and the rest of the world. [1] Based in Belgrade, [2] It operates one of the largest privately owned libraries in the Balkans with more than 1 million titles, [3] as well as the Museum of Book and Travel and the Museum of Serbian literature.

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History

The core of the organization is the personal library of Lazić family, which was founded in 1882 in Vojvodina. [4] The Lazić library and the whole Adligat are run by the writer and world traveller Viktor Lazić who is the ninth generation [5] of the family to manage the library as well as the board of the organization. [6]

A number of academics and scholars are part of Adligat, including Vladeta Jerotić, Miodrag Pavlović, Filip David, Ljubivoje Ršumović, Ljubomir Simović, Emir Kusturica, Milovan Danojlić, Matija Bećković and others. [7]

The two museum hold a number of valuable artefacts, including the letters of Thomas Edison, Nikola Tesla, [8] personal belongings of Serbian kings, the actor Pavle Vuisić, [9] [10] writer Miloš Crnjanski, Nobel Prize winner Ivo Andrić, [11] voivode Živojin Mišić, [12] poet Vojislav Ilić, [13] painter Uroš Predić, more than 120.000 stamps, [14] 3000 coins and banknotes, a vast collection of rare books and numerous other possessions. [15]

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