New Belgrade is wide, flat and built for wheels. The riverside park has room to ride a bike or scooter, and the residential blocks between the towers hide indoor play centers and sports spots for cold or wet days. We pulled together the family plans across the district, from outdoor afternoons to rainy-day backups.
A puppet play with an unusual take on the story of Aladdin, the rascal from Baghdad, and the caliph's daughter Jasmine. The puppets are made in the style of Japanese manga cartoons and carry kids into a world of One Thousand and One Nights.
It suits kids who like fairy tales with a clear villain, where love and persistence beat even the strongest evil.
Zora and the Dream (Zora i san) is a short stage show made for babies, put on at Pinokio, Belgrade's puppet theater.
It is built for the youngest audience, so it suits parents looking for a first theater outing with a baby or young toddler.
Čudna šuma is a puppet and juggling show by writer and director Ivana Koraksić, who mixes circus, puppetry and movement.
Two mischievous boys, Miša and Bole, get lost in a forest and toss their snack wrappers. The forest dwarfs won't let them go home until they solve a series of tasks. The theme is how people treat nature, an easy way into talking about litter.
An open-air ice rink set up each winter in front of Ušće Shopping Center, ringed by wooden market stalls, music and holiday lights. Kids skate laps while the rest of the family walks the stalls.
The 2025 opening night brought drummers, a neon dance show on the ice and a children's play with skating fairy-tale characters.
The 11 April sports and recreation center, run by Sports Center Novi Beograd, has six pools. Indoors, the Vlaho Orlić complex has a 50 m pool, a 25 m pool and an 11 m learner pool, plus a parents' room with WiFi overlooking children's training.
In summer, three outdoor pools open: a shallow paddling pool, a school pool and an Olympic pool, with loungers and umbrellas on the deck.
Ušće Park spreads over 52 hectares of lawns, paths and trees on the point where the Sava meets the Danube, the largest park area in the city. Kids can bike the paths, watch the skaters at the skatepark, and look across the water to Kalemegdan fortress and Great War Island.
In winter, birdwatchers come for the rare waterbirds off the banks.
Sektor44 is a bouldering gym: climbing without ropes on low walls, with protective mats to land on. Routes range from absolute-beginner problems to ones set for professional athletes, and they change regularly, so repeat visits bring new puzzles.
Kids can join coached group sessions, book a one-to-one with an instructor, or climb on their own with an adult supervising. Climbing shoes and liquid chalk are for rent at the desk.
Avokado Playroom is a 250-square-meter playroom with slides, interactive screens and toys, where animators watch the kids while parents sit in the café. Outside, a garden café sits next to a playground with a rubber floor for good-weather days.
The café serves coffee, meals and cakes sweetened with dates. Themed workshops run around holidays, with reading, art, magicians and clowns.
A bowling alley on the second floor of the old Merkator building, with a billiards club of nine-ball tables and a café bar where adults can sit and watch the lanes.
Kids bowl with lighter kids' balls kept alongside the adult ones. Birthday parties come as a package with bowling, pizza and juice.
An indoor laser tag arena run by Arena No1 in Blok 44. Players wear team vests and carry laser guns through a darkened, neon-lit play area, and the venue's main offer is laser tag birthday parties for groups of kids.
A 610m² pirate-themed play center on the first floor of a shopping center in Bežanijska kosa, with Pirates of the Caribbean characters painted on the walls. The kids' zone has a big ship, a three-level jungle maze, slides, trampolines, ball pits for the youngest, electric toys and a small football and basketball court.
Parents get a separate cafe room to sit in while the kids play.
Maštograd is a play center on Bežanijska Kosa with 800 m² of space, half indoors and half in an outdoor yard. Inside are a 3D maze, a treehouse with a hanging bridge, a car track, themed rooms, a chill-out room with a cinema and a sports hall. The yard has swings, slides, a trampoline, a zip line and a sandpit, plus a garden café for parents.
Tibidabo is a playroom and party venue in Block 28, next to Belgrade Arena. The play area has climbing equipment, a ball pit and toys, with staff animators keeping watch and running games.
Parents sit in a separate café that looks into the playroom, and there is a garden plus a PlayStation room for older siblings. Creative workshops run from time to time.
Cineplexx Ušće is the 11-screen multiplex inside Ušće Shopping Center. The mall around it also has a bowling alley, about 150 shops, restaurants and cafés, and two levels of underground parking, so a film can turn into lunch or a round of bowling without leaving the building.
The museum sits in a white-marble building shaped like a cluster of six cut cubes, facing Belgrade Fortress across the Sava. Inside there are no corridors: five exhibition levels flow into each other, so kids can look down on the art below from the upper floors. The collection covers 20th-century Yugoslav, Serbian and international art, and a sculpture park surrounds the building.
New Belgrade is wide, flat and built for wheels. The riverside park has room to ride a bike or scooter, and the residential blocks between the towers hide indoor play centers and sports spots for cold or wet days. We pulled together the family plans across the district, from outdoor afternoons to rainy-day backups.
A puppet play with an unusual take on the story of Aladdin, the rascal from Baghdad, and the caliph's daughter Jasmine. The puppets are made in the style of Japanese manga cartoons and carry kids into a world of One Thousand and One Nights.
It suits kids who like fairy tales with a clear villain, where love and persistence beat even the strongest evil.
Zora and the Dream (Zora i san) is a short stage show made for babies, put on at Pinokio, Belgrade's puppet theater.
It is built for the youngest audience, so it suits parents looking for a first theater outing with a baby or young toddler.
Čudna šuma is a puppet and juggling show by writer and director Ivana Koraksić, who mixes circus, puppetry and movement.
Two mischievous boys, Miša and Bole, get lost in a forest and toss their snack wrappers. The forest dwarfs won't let them go home until they solve a series of tasks. The theme is how people treat nature, an easy way into talking about litter.
An open-air ice rink set up each winter in front of Ušće Shopping Center, ringed by wooden market stalls, music and holiday lights. Kids skate laps while the rest of the family walks the stalls.
The 2025 opening night brought drummers, a neon dance show on the ice and a children's play with skating fairy-tale characters.
The 11 April sports and recreation center, run by Sports Center Novi Beograd, has six pools. Indoors, the Vlaho Orlić complex has a 50 m pool, a 25 m pool and an 11 m learner pool, plus a parents' room with WiFi overlooking children's training.
In summer, three outdoor pools open: a shallow paddling pool, a school pool and an Olympic pool, with loungers and umbrellas on the deck.
Ušće Park spreads over 52 hectares of lawns, paths and trees on the point where the Sava meets the Danube, the largest park area in the city. Kids can bike the paths, watch the skaters at the skatepark, and look across the water to Kalemegdan fortress and Great War Island.
In winter, birdwatchers come for the rare waterbirds off the banks.
Sektor44 is a bouldering gym: climbing without ropes on low walls, with protective mats to land on. Routes range from absolute-beginner problems to ones set for professional athletes, and they change regularly, so repeat visits bring new puzzles.
Kids can join coached group sessions, book a one-to-one with an instructor, or climb on their own with an adult supervising. Climbing shoes and liquid chalk are for rent at the desk.
Avokado Playroom is a 250-square-meter playroom with slides, interactive screens and toys, where animators watch the kids while parents sit in the café. Outside, a garden café sits next to a playground with a rubber floor for good-weather days.
The café serves coffee, meals and cakes sweetened with dates. Themed workshops run around holidays, with reading, art, magicians and clowns.
A bowling alley on the second floor of the old Merkator building, with a billiards club of nine-ball tables and a café bar where adults can sit and watch the lanes.
Kids bowl with lighter kids' balls kept alongside the adult ones. Birthday parties come as a package with bowling, pizza and juice.
An indoor laser tag arena run by Arena No1 in Blok 44. Players wear team vests and carry laser guns through a darkened, neon-lit play area, and the venue's main offer is laser tag birthday parties for groups of kids.
A 610m² pirate-themed play center on the first floor of a shopping center in Bežanijska kosa, with Pirates of the Caribbean characters painted on the walls. The kids' zone has a big ship, a three-level jungle maze, slides, trampolines, ball pits for the youngest, electric toys and a small football and basketball court.
Parents get a separate cafe room to sit in while the kids play.
Maštograd is a play center on Bežanijska Kosa with 800 m² of space, half indoors and half in an outdoor yard. Inside are a 3D maze, a treehouse with a hanging bridge, a car track, themed rooms, a chill-out room with a cinema and a sports hall. The yard has swings, slides, a trampoline, a zip line and a sandpit, plus a garden café for parents.
Tibidabo is a playroom and party venue in Block 28, next to Belgrade Arena. The play area has climbing equipment, a ball pit and toys, with staff animators keeping watch and running games.
Parents sit in a separate café that looks into the playroom, and there is a garden plus a PlayStation room for older siblings. Creative workshops run from time to time.
Cineplexx Ušće is the 11-screen multiplex inside Ušće Shopping Center. The mall around it also has a bowling alley, about 150 shops, restaurants and cafés, and two levels of underground parking, so a film can turn into lunch or a round of bowling without leaving the building.
The museum sits in a white-marble building shaped like a cluster of six cut cubes, facing Belgrade Fortress across the Sava. Inside there are no corridors: five exhibition levels flow into each other, so kids can look down on the art below from the upper floors. The collection covers 20th-century Yugoslav, Serbian and international art, and a sculpture park surrounds the building.
