As a result of this church and monastery treasuries were created and feudal land owners’ residences were decorated.

As early as XV c. at the Crnojevics court in Cetinje, important state documents were kept (valuable and ornamented books and war trophies). On the coast were kept the palaces of captains and estate owners were ornamented with objects brought from distant journeys or from European art centers.  At the same time as part of the Cetinje Monastery Treasury and Kotor St. Tryphon Cathedral there were collections of church objects of literal and artistic value.

With Principle Nichola’s Decree from 1868, all the objects from historical heritage from the Billiard Treasury were declared national property and the Billiard the museum. By the end of the XIX c. The Zetski Dom building was built which was the first museum, after which the Law on Museum was passed from 1896.

After the II World War, the State Museum was modernized and as part of it there were Njegos, Ethnographic and Art museum, as well as institutions for the registration and protection of monuments. In many Montenegrin towns at that time were regional museums and galleries, such as those in Herceg-Novi, Kotor, Budva and Podgorica were founded.