In 1950 in Cetinje was established by the Art Museum. Initially, its location served as the city library Cetina. Today, he is a former Government House along with the Historical Museum.

According to recent reports the Museum has about three thousand exhibits, most of which were in his store at the end of the last century. These include historic paintings and sculptures as well as works by modern masters. Many of these masterpieces, including the collection of icons and pictures taken by the Museum as a gift from Svetozar Tempo and his wife, are on permanent exhibition of the Museum.

A valuable instance of the Art Museum is the icon of filarsky of the virgin, which was written by a family of Konopiste of Dmitrievich-Rafailovici, belonged to Kotor school of icon painting. According to ancient tradition, directly related to the appearance of this icon and had the Apostle Luke. In the opinion of the Orthodox community, the icon of filarsky the virgin is miraculous.

The icon remained in the ownership of knightly orders, of the house of Romanov (about 120 years, during which the icon was changed from silver to gold), Ostrog monastery, and only in 1950 was the showpiece of the Cetinje Museum of Art and is now in his blue room.

Besides Montenegrin, Serbian and Croatian sculptors and artists in a variety of styles and techniques in the halls of the Museum also contains some of the masterpieces of Picasso, Chagall, Dali, Renoir, etc.