Njegoš's Birth House

The 1779 family house in the hamlet of Erakovići, Njeguši, where Petar II Petrović Njegoš was born in 1813; a memorial museum since 1973 with ethnographic objects and small arms, open in summer only.

History Museum · Cetinje

Photo: ines lukic · CC BY 3.0

Hours: Summer season (11 or 15 April to 15 November), daily 09:00-16:00Tickets: €3

Njegoš's Birth House (Njegoševa rodna kuća) stands in Erakovići, a hamlet of Njeguši in the municipality of Cetinje. The house was built in 1779 by Petar I Petrović, Njegoš's uncle, and Petar II Petrović Njegoš was born in it in 1813. It has been a memorial museum of the National Museum of Montenegro since 1973 and opens only in the summer season. The ticket is €3 alone or included in the €8 ticket for the Njegoš Mausoleum.

Opening hours and tickets

The house opens daily 09:00-16:00 in the summer season, to 15 November; the unit page gives 11 April and the institution's timetable 15 April as the first day. In winter it is closed. It can also close for local events: on 11 and 12 July 2026 it shut for the Njeguši hill-climb race, announced on the museum's news page the day before.

Entry on its own costs €3 for adults and €1.50 for pupils and students. The mausoleum ticket (€8 adults, €4 pupils and students) includes the birth house, and the collective National Museum ticket (€20, €10 reduced) covers both and every unit in Cetinje. Children under 12 enter free.

What to see

The museum describes the building as a typical house of a wealthy Montenegrin family of its time. The display consists of ethnographic material and small arms. There is no reconstruction of Njegoš's own rooms described on the museum page; his personal belongings, library and the manuscript of The Mountain Wreath are at the Biljarda in Cetinje.

Stone-walled room with a flagstone floor, low wooden stools, a hearth chain and household tools on the walls — Inside Njegoš's birth housePhoto: MrSco, CC BY 2.0

History

Petar I Petrović built the house in 1779. His nephew, the future Petar II Petrović Njegoš, was born here in 1813. The house became a memorial museum in 1973, within the Historical Museum unit of the National Museum.

Getting there

The address is Njeguši bb, hamlet Erakovići, Cetinje municipality. The birth house and the mausoleum in Lovćen National Park share a ticket and the same summer-only season, so they are usually combined in one trip by car. The museum publishes nothing on parking or accessibility.