Type History museum Collection size 300,000 | Collections 17 Phone +385 1 4851 900 | |
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Former name Croatian National Historic Museum Location Matoševa 9, Zagreb, Croatia Accreditation Croatian Museum Council Address Ul. Antuna Gustava Matoša 9, 10000, Zagreb, Croatia Hours Closed now Saturday10AM–1PMSunday10AM–1PMMonday10AM–6PMTuesday10AM–6PMWednesday10AM–6PMThursday10AM–6PMFriday10AM–6PM Similar Zagreb City Museum, Archaeol Museum, Museum of Contemp Art, Klovićevi dvori, Technical Museum Profiles | ||
Croatian history museum the jela i legacy
Croatian History Museum (Croatian: Hrvatski povijesni muzej) is a museum of history located in the Vojković Palace on Antun Gustav Matoš Street in the historic Gornji Grad district of Zagreb, Croatia. The museum holdings consist of around 300,000 objects divided into 17 collections. In addition to a part of the Meštrović Pavilion, it also administers the Ivan Goran Kovačić Memorial Museum in Lukovdol.
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The museum was formed in 1940 as the Croatian National Historic Museum (Hrvatski narodni historički muzej), stemming from the former National Museum (Narodni muzej), which was formed in 1846.
The museum does not have a permanent display. Instead, it only holds temporary exhibitions due to lack of space. In order to remedy this problem, the building of the Zagreb Tobacco Factory (Tvornica duhana Zagreb) was assigned to the museum in 2007, but as of 2015, the museum remains in Matoš Street.
Collection
The museum holdings are part of 17 collections:
The holdings are housed in the Vojković Palace and part of the Meštrović Pavilion.
Library
The library of the Croatian History Museum was founded as a department of the National Museum. In 1854, the National Museum library held over 10,000 volumes. It was gradually enlarged through buying and donations, through the work of the National Museum director Spiridon Brusina. At the split of the National Museum into specialised museums, its library was split as well. The library of the Croatian History Museum was in 1959 housed in the museum building in the Vojković Palace, where it remains today. The library contains c. 20,000 books, including four incunabula and several manuscripts, as well as a number of books printed as early as the 17th century. The primary method of book acquisition are donations and book exchanges, leading to an average of 300 new books yearly.