The Collection of Decorations mostly consists of Pavle Beljanski’s decorations received for the promotion of the diplomatic service. In his almost four-decade-long career, he received more than twenty decorations, of which seventeen have been preserved. Together with two more items belonging to his younger brother, Nikola Beljanski, and the painter, Jefto Perić, today they form the Collection of Decorations. According to their cultural-historical, typological and aesthetic features, the decorations of The Memorial Collection can be divided into two basic categories. The first group includes national decorations from the periods of the Kingdom of Serbia (1882–1918), the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes (1918–1929) and the Kingdom of Yugoslavia (1929–1945). The second group is larger and consists of high-rank decorations of foreign countries, most often deserved by mediation in establishing diplomatic relations with the Federal People’s Republic of Yugoslavia. In addition to decorations, the collection also includes rare copies of official decrees, diplomas and charters of Spain, Italy, Poland, Belgium, Egypt and Greece. When Pavle Beljanski’s family donated his personal objects intended for The Pavle Beljanski Memorial in 1966, twenty valuable decorations were among these valuable items.
The publication From Stockholm to Belgrade through the Collection of Decorations (2014) provides a complete insight into the origin of the collection in the context of social and cultural relations of the time in which Pavle Beljanski lived.