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Gordana Bralić and Maja Lončar from the Croatian Bureau of Statistics, and Tea Rihtar Jurić from the Museum Documentation Center, presented the data for Croatian Museums at the recently held EGMUS annual plenary in Prague. more

MDC has opened its 44th Exhibition of the Publishing Activity of Croatian Museums and Galleries at the 47th International Book Fair (Interliber). The exhibition is the only and most comprehensive form of presenting a broad spectrum of museum topics. more (in Croatian)

The Ministry of Culture and Media and the MDC presented the new issue of the journal Muzeologija 61, and announced the continuation of the provenance research project in Croatian museums. more

This special issue of Muzeologija focuses on the provenance research on museum holdings confiscated during and after World War II in Croatia. more

The topic of this volume is Donors, people without whom museums would be so much the poorer. more

MDC’s newsletter the "News from the Museum World" informs museum professionals and the general public creates new users of the museum and heritage-related content and develops cooperation between professionals from Croatia, the region of SEE, and the world. latest issue

To mark the 70th anniversary of our founding, we created an online exhibition, 70 Years of MDC, which introduces the public to the history and activities of the Museum Documentation Center (MDC), the key institution to the development of the museum profession in Croatia. more

Three online exhibitions curated by Zrinka Marković present photographic slides from the donation of Tomislav Šola. The slides depict scenes he captured during visits to numerous world museums and monuments from the early 1980s to the late 1990s. more

Croatian artist Boris Bućan produced four International Museum Day posters for the MDC—in 1982, 1985, 1986, and 1988. Zrinka Marković, the Head of our Museum Poster Collection, curated a virtual exhibition of Bućan’s posters who died last year, exactly on International Museum Day, May 18, 2023. more

Panel discussion Is There Such a Thing as a Neutral Image?, organized by the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art and the Center for Advanced Studies of the University of Rijeka, will take place on February 12, 2026, at the MMSU, starting at 5:00 PM. more 

The virtual exhibition of works from the HAZU Croatian Museum of Architecture's collection, commemorating the 20th anniversary of the death of architect Miroslav Begović (1925-2004), is now available in English. more 

The retrospective at the Museum of Fine Arts reconstructs, for the first time, Kažimir Hraste’s artistic career through nearly eighty works, including sculptures, reliefs, installations, and drawings. more 

The international group exhibition Mentally, I am here presents four video installations that use digital environment and video games to discuss the interconnectedness of technology and capitalism. more 

The exhibition on view at the Klovićevi dvori Gallery is the central event marking a great jubilee in Croatian history – 1100 years of the Croatian Kingdom. more 

The exhibition shows the history of the development of the tram in Dubrovnik, from the arrival of the first tram car and trailer (beiwagen) in 1910 to the tragic accident and the final withdrawal of tram services in 1970. more 

The Museum Statistical Overview for 2024 was produced after analyzing data from the Register of Museums, Galleries, and Collections about 171 legally established and registered museums in Croatia. more

In 2024, Facebook is still the most popular social media platform among museums and their users, according to the Museum Documentation Center’s survey. more

According to the 2024 attendance survey by the Museum Documentation Center (MDC), total visits to Croatian museums grew by 8%, from 4,397,405 in 2023 to 4,757,790 last year. more

July 1–4, 2026, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb, Croatia
Abstract submission deadline: 10 February 2026 more

The theme of the conference hosted by the International Centre for Underwater Archaeology in Zadar will be “Fragments of Buried Stories”. more

The Croatian Sports Museum, a national museum institution that collects, preserves, and presents the history of physical education and sport in Croatia, opened its first permanent exhibit on January 27. more

The Meštrović Atelier in Zagreb has reopened on December 13, 2025, after nearly 3 years of closure and a major reconstruction following the 2020 Zagreb earthquake. more

Passengers at Zagreb Airport can now do more than observe the runways and aircraft—they can step into the world of Croatia’s most renowned figures in science, culture, politics, and sports in the newly open Museum Zone. more

The exhibition is dedicated to one of the most important finds from the Museum's holdings—the so-called Cranium C (Krapina 3). It is the most complete and best-known find from the Krapina Diluvian Man Collection. more

The exhibition catalogue in four languages: Croatian, Italian, German, and English, presents items recovered from the sinking site of the steamship Baron Gautsch, which are kept at the Historical and Maritime Museum of Istria. more

This publication offers the opportunity to see the entire glass collection from the Roman necropolis of Asseria that is kept in the Archaeological Museum in Split. more

How often do you wear a hat? Read the blog post by the Museum of Arts and Crafts in Zagreb to learn how hats went from mandatory to optional fashion accessories. more 

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