Savski Venac runs from the river up into the wooded hills, and it holds a lot of kid stops for one district. Big parks and riverside paths for sunny days, indoor play centers and museums for wet ones, and the fairground's seasonal events on top. This list updates itself as new listings come in, so check back before the weekend.
Magician Strahinja takes the audience on a stage tour of the world, with stops in Egypt, India, Great Britain, Switzerland, Australia, Lapland and Serbia. Each stop mixes illusions and comedy with a short lesson about that continent, so kids and parents both come away knowing something new. An odd suitcase comes along for the trip, and it seems to have a life of its own.
Zimska Bajka (Winter Fairy Tale) is Belgrade's winter festival in Savski Park at Beograd na vodi, down by the Sava. The organizer dresses the park like a set from a holiday movie, with thousands of lights, music, food and other winter activities.
It's a come-and-go outing: wander the lights, eat something warm, and head home when the kids are done. It suits families with children of any age.
Belgrade's New Year's Fair has been a December fixture at the Belgrade Fair for decades. The heart of it is a big indoor amusement park, with carousels, little cars and other rides that pull in both small children and older kids.
Around the rides, stalls sell New Year's decorations, toys, gifts, souvenirs and holiday sweets. It suits families after a warm indoor outing with some holiday shopping on the side.
Savski Park is one of the biggest green spaces in the city center, about the size of four soccer fields, with more than 140 trees. Kids get a playground with modern equipment and a waterplay area built around water mechanisms they can work themselves.
Older kids can use the 700-meter two-lane jogging track, ping-pong tables and a multi-sport court for basketball, handball and small-sided soccer, plus six picnic tables.
Hyde Park is a 7.3-hectare triangle of woodland on the northern slopes of Topčider Hill, between Senjak and Dedinje. A central path lined with plane trees splits it in two: a forested half with running trails, and a recreation half with an outdoor fitness area of 12 machines.
A sawdust trail of about 1,400 meters circles the edge, and a children's playground sits in the middle.
Topčider was Belgrade's first park, laid out in the 1830s in the English style with winding paths, streams and small lakes. Plane trees planted around Prince Miloš's Residence in 1831 still stand there today.
Around the residence sit fountains, a stone obelisk and the Žetelica (Woman Harvester) statue, the city's first park sculpture. Past the lawns, the paths lead on into the Topčider and Košutnjak woods.
Palace Kids is a staffed play center in Dedinje, inside the Palace One complex. Play leaders run games across a play floor with a play course, toys, electronic games and craft sets, and there is a cinema plus a disco with a DJ booth for older kids.
Parents can stay in the lounge bar or garden, with laptop tables, or leave kids for drop-in childcare.
Cosmo Kids is an indoor playground for babies, toddlers and preschoolers inside the Galerija shopping mall. Kids work through a play maze, ride the double, Vulkano and donut slides, bounce on trampolines and dig in a sandbox, while a separate baby corner gives crawlers a calmer space of their own.
Cosmo Play is an indoor play center inside the Galerija shopping mall. Kids climb and crawl through a multi-level maze, race down slides and steel Inox slides, and play team games in a laser tag arena. A separate baby corner gives the youngest their own space.
Parents can wait in the Cosmo Caffe, and the grip socks some attractions require are sold at the front desk.
An indoor trampoline park inside the Galerija shopping center, set up as a run of sports challenges. Kids tackle a Ninja Warrior obstacle course, dunk on trampoline basketball hoops, face off on a balance beam, try the long jump trampoline and play in a dodgeball arena.
Jumpers must be over 130cm tall, so it suits school-age kids and teens more than toddlers. Parents can wait in the Cosmo Caffe.
A hands-on aquarium and reptile house run by the Aquaria Life association. Tanks hold fish from the Sava and Danube, the Adriatic and tropical coral reefs, plus 50 koi carp in a 6-meter tank. The reptile corner has snakes, leopard geckos, iguanas, tarantulas and scorpions, and staff can arrange time with some of the animals. Outside, a garden keeps red-eared turtles, koi and bonsai trees.
The first and only museum in the region given over entirely to the arts of Africa. The permanent display shows masks, wood and bronze sculpture, goldweights, musical instruments and textiles from West African peoples such as the Dogon, Bambara and Ashanti, grouped by region with photographs and labels in English and Serbian.
Temporary exhibitions cover other parts of the continent, from Ethiopia and the Maghreb to South Africa.
The Museum of Yugoslavia is three buildings, the May 25 Museum, the Old Museum and the House of Flowers, joined by a sculpture park in leafy Dedinje. The May 25 Museum opened in 1962 as a birthday gift to Josip Broz Tito, who is buried in the House of Flowers.
Exhibitions trace life in Yugoslavia through the museum's collection, and the permanent exhibition has a creative corner for kids.
The Railway Museum fills the ground floor of the 1931 Serbian Railways headquarters, with a steam locomotive parked at the entrance. Inside are scale models of steam engines, including Stephenson's Rocket, plus signal lamps and flags, conductors' ticket punches, engraved railway pocket watches, a telegraph desk and three track handcars from 1928 and 1943.
It suits train-obsessed kids as a short stop rather than a half-day outing.
Savski Venac runs from the river up into the wooded hills, and it holds a lot of kid stops for one district. Big parks and riverside paths for sunny days, indoor play centers and museums for wet ones, and the fairground's seasonal events on top. This list updates itself as new listings come in, so check back before the weekend.
Magician Strahinja takes the audience on a stage tour of the world, with stops in Egypt, India, Great Britain, Switzerland, Australia, Lapland and Serbia. Each stop mixes illusions and comedy with a short lesson about that continent, so kids and parents both come away knowing something new. An odd suitcase comes along for the trip, and it seems to have a life of its own.
Zimska Bajka (Winter Fairy Tale) is Belgrade's winter festival in Savski Park at Beograd na vodi, down by the Sava. The organizer dresses the park like a set from a holiday movie, with thousands of lights, music, food and other winter activities.
It's a come-and-go outing: wander the lights, eat something warm, and head home when the kids are done. It suits families with children of any age.
Belgrade's New Year's Fair has been a December fixture at the Belgrade Fair for decades. The heart of it is a big indoor amusement park, with carousels, little cars and other rides that pull in both small children and older kids.
Around the rides, stalls sell New Year's decorations, toys, gifts, souvenirs and holiday sweets. It suits families after a warm indoor outing with some holiday shopping on the side.
Savski Park is one of the biggest green spaces in the city center, about the size of four soccer fields, with more than 140 trees. Kids get a playground with modern equipment and a waterplay area built around water mechanisms they can work themselves.
Older kids can use the 700-meter two-lane jogging track, ping-pong tables and a multi-sport court for basketball, handball and small-sided soccer, plus six picnic tables.
Hyde Park is a 7.3-hectare triangle of woodland on the northern slopes of Topčider Hill, between Senjak and Dedinje. A central path lined with plane trees splits it in two: a forested half with running trails, and a recreation half with an outdoor fitness area of 12 machines.
A sawdust trail of about 1,400 meters circles the edge, and a children's playground sits in the middle.
Topčider was Belgrade's first park, laid out in the 1830s in the English style with winding paths, streams and small lakes. Plane trees planted around Prince Miloš's Residence in 1831 still stand there today.
Around the residence sit fountains, a stone obelisk and the Žetelica (Woman Harvester) statue, the city's first park sculpture. Past the lawns, the paths lead on into the Topčider and Košutnjak woods.
Palace Kids is a staffed play center in Dedinje, inside the Palace One complex. Play leaders run games across a play floor with a play course, toys, electronic games and craft sets, and there is a cinema plus a disco with a DJ booth for older kids.
Parents can stay in the lounge bar or garden, with laptop tables, or leave kids for drop-in childcare.
Cosmo Kids is an indoor playground for babies, toddlers and preschoolers inside the Galerija shopping mall. Kids work through a play maze, ride the double, Vulkano and donut slides, bounce on trampolines and dig in a sandbox, while a separate baby corner gives crawlers a calmer space of their own.
Cosmo Play is an indoor play center inside the Galerija shopping mall. Kids climb and crawl through a multi-level maze, race down slides and steel Inox slides, and play team games in a laser tag arena. A separate baby corner gives the youngest their own space.
Parents can wait in the Cosmo Caffe, and the grip socks some attractions require are sold at the front desk.
An indoor trampoline park inside the Galerija shopping center, set up as a run of sports challenges. Kids tackle a Ninja Warrior obstacle course, dunk on trampoline basketball hoops, face off on a balance beam, try the long jump trampoline and play in a dodgeball arena.
Jumpers must be over 130cm tall, so it suits school-age kids and teens more than toddlers. Parents can wait in the Cosmo Caffe.
A hands-on aquarium and reptile house run by the Aquaria Life association. Tanks hold fish from the Sava and Danube, the Adriatic and tropical coral reefs, plus 50 koi carp in a 6-meter tank. The reptile corner has snakes, leopard geckos, iguanas, tarantulas and scorpions, and staff can arrange time with some of the animals. Outside, a garden keeps red-eared turtles, koi and bonsai trees.
The first and only museum in the region given over entirely to the arts of Africa. The permanent display shows masks, wood and bronze sculpture, goldweights, musical instruments and textiles from West African peoples such as the Dogon, Bambara and Ashanti, grouped by region with photographs and labels in English and Serbian.
Temporary exhibitions cover other parts of the continent, from Ethiopia and the Maghreb to South Africa.
The Museum of Yugoslavia is three buildings, the May 25 Museum, the Old Museum and the House of Flowers, joined by a sculpture park in leafy Dedinje. The May 25 Museum opened in 1962 as a birthday gift to Josip Broz Tito, who is buried in the House of Flowers.
Exhibitions trace life in Yugoslavia through the museum's collection, and the permanent exhibition has a creative corner for kids.
The Railway Museum fills the ground floor of the 1931 Serbian Railways headquarters, with a steam locomotive parked at the entrance. Inside are scale models of steam engines, including Stephenson's Rocket, plus signal lamps and flags, conductors' ticket punches, engraved railway pocket watches, a telegraph desk and three track handcars from 1928 and 1943.
It suits train-obsessed kids as a short stop rather than a half-day outing.
