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In 2025, Croatian museums recorded a significant growth in views and followers on Facebook, Instagram, and X, as well as increased engagement with online collections and museum newsletters. However, overall visits to museum websites declined compared with 2024. more

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

The topic of Volume 56 of the Informatica Museologica journal is The Role of Museums in Preserving Technical and Industrial Heritage. više

The open edition of Muzeologija journal serves as a forum for contemporary museological and museum preoccupations, and underscores some of the key challenges that museums face today. 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

The Museum of Betina Wooden Shipbuilding presents the exhibition “Šime Šandrić – Through the Lines of Boats”, dedicated to one of Betina’s most prominent 20th-century boatbuilders. more 

Radical Subjectivity brings together a selection of seminal works by Katalin Ladik and Tomaso Binga, among the most influential European artists working in experimental visual poetry at the intersection of language and image. more 

The Museum of Contemporary Art presents the fourth segment of the permanent display Collection as a Verb. This exhibition section continues to explore multiple narratives and the fluid transitions between them. more 

In 2025, Croatian museums had 5,144,262 visitors, 8.1% rise when compared to 2024, but still below the 5.4 million recorded in the pre-pandemic 2018. 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

This conference will explore the complexities around preserving and exhibiting underwater cultural heritage collections, highlighting the collaborative efforts required to connect the underwater world with the public sphere. more

The Croatian Natural History Museum is organizing the Congress “180 Years of Dedication to Natural History Heritage – A Museum for the Future”, to mark the 180th anniversary of the Museum’s founding. more 

On view at the Technical Museum Nikola Tesla, the exhibition Patent Penkala presents the life and work of Eduard Slavoljub Penkala, the inventor best known for the mechanical pencil, patented in 1906. more

The Art Pavilion in Zagreb has opened the exhibition "The Dresden Diary of Anka Krizmanić" at the Zagreb City Museum, which gives a deeper insight into the work of one of the most important protagonists of Croatian modern art. more

The exhibition offers a look into the prehistoric world of the Delmatae through remarkable archaeological finds, interpretive illustrations, multimedia content, and immersive exhibition design. 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

This monograph makes a valuable contribution to the assessment of the nine theatrical paintings created by Gustav Klimt, Ernst Klimt, and Franz Matsch in 1885, for the Teatro Comunale in Rijeka (now the Croatian National Theatre Ivan pl. Zajc). more

The book includes 750 objects from the holdings of the Archaeological Museum in Split, dating from the mid-2nd century BC to the 7th century, making it one of the most comprehensive publications dedicated to ancient glass in this part of Europe. more

Take a glimpse into the story of a plant that has, quietly and steadfastly, written one of the most beautiful horticultural chapters of Opatija’s heritage. more

This exhibition catalogue focuses on the stories of the first women in Zagreb’s cultural institutions—curators, scientist, painters, sculptors, poets, designers—highlighting their contributions and the challenges they faced in the first half of the 20th century. more

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