The collection contains more than a hundred photographs that have been donated to the museum by Pavle Beljanski, members of his family, artists and their heirs, as well as the museum’s friends. The most numerous are photographs from the collector’s personal and family legacy and represent valuable testimonies about the environment and the people that had an impact on the life of Pavle Beljanski. The collection also contains photographs Pavle Beljanski captured while staying in European cities, socializing with friends from the period after the Second World War, as well as photographs from his official assignments as the head of the Protocol of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Federal People’s Republic of Yugoslavia. Also, along with their letters addressed to Beljanski, artists would sometimes attach photographs of their artworks. Eventually, they or their heirs would even donate personal photographs to the museum.
Photographs from this collection, organized individually or grouped in albums, represent an authentic visual testimony both in the broader context of European and Yugoslav culture and the narrow context of most intimate family and personal Beljanski’s relationships.