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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

The museum film festival MUVI 10 / 2024: museums – video – film and MUVI LAB / 2024: festival of multimedia and web projects, organized by MDC, was held online on December 9 and 10, 2024. more

The new issue of Muzeologija is dedicated to gamification, a growing trend in the heritage sector today, both in practical application and scientific research. abstracts 

The issue deals with the challenges that island museums and their professional employees face, the advantages of living and working on the islands, and how to valorize the insular cultural heritage through museum activity. contents

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

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

The exhibition on the stories of the first women in Zagreb’s cultural institutions—curators, scientists, painters, sculptors, poets, designers—highlighting their contributions and the challenges they faced. more 

The interdisciplinary scientific conference will focus on gender as a crucial phenomenon in contemporary society, examining how identities are shaped, challenged, and reinterpreted. more 

The Museum Statistical Overview for 2023 was produced after analyzing data from the Register of Museums, Galleries, and Collections about 170 legally established and registered museums in Croatia. more

In 2023, the total number of active visitors to museum websites was 5,224,805, as reported by 94 museums, 25% more than in 2022. more

Even though almost a fifth of the Croatian museums closed their doors in 2023 due to renovations or the realization of new permanent exhibitions, there was a 27 % increase in visitor numbers. more

This meeting will be an international forum to gather conservators, building facility managers, climate researchers, entomologists, and microbiologists from around the globe, to share and discuss their experiences and scientific findings on indoor museum climate. 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 presents the collection of official ceremonial uniforms of the Dubrovnik Republic, giving the audience a deeper insight into the clothing of the Dubrovnik aristocracy. more

The touring exhibition follows the discovery of the remains of a woolly rhino, the best preserved and only such in situ finding in Croatia. Alongside the woolly mammoth, the woolly rhinoceros represents one of the characteristic animals of the glacial period megafauna. 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

The catalog presents over two hundred photographs and postcards with motifs of ships owned by Dubrovnik shipping companies and ships of other shipowners that sailed in the Dubrovnik waters. more

The Ivan Meštrović Museums have published an enlarged edition of the catalog of the permanent display of the Meštrović Gallery from 2018. 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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