Adligat is a civil society organization which operates in the area of culture, arts and furthering the international cooperation of Serbia and the rest of the world. Based in Belgrade, It operates one of the largest privately owned libraries in the Balkans with more than 1 million titles, as well as the Museum of Book and Travel and the Museum of Serbian literature.
The core of the organization is the personal library of LaziÃÂ family, which was founded in 1882 in Vojvodina. The LaziÃÂ library and the whole Adligat are run by the writer and world traveller Viktor LaziÃÂ who is the ninth generation of the family to manage the library as well as the board of the organization.
A number of academics and scholars are part of Adligat, including Vladeta JerotiÃÂ, Miodrag PavloviÃÂ, Filip David, Ljubivoje Rà ¡umoviÃÂ, Ljubomir SimoviÃÂ, Emir Kusturica, Milovan DanojliÃÂ, Matija BeÃÂkoviàand others.
The two museum hold a number of valuable artefacts, including the letters of Thomas Edison, Nikola Tesla, personal belongings of Serbian kings, the actor Pavle VuisiÃÂ, writer Miloà ¡ Crnjanski, Nobel Prize winner Ivo AndriÃÂ, voivode à ½ivojin Mià ¡iÃÂ, poet Vojislav IliÃÂ, painter Uroà ¡ PrediÃÂ, more than 120.000 stamps, 3000 coins and banknotes, a vast collection of rare books and numerous other possessions.