Ships in photographs and postcards from the mid-19th to the middle of the 20th century

Dubrovnik Museums – Maritime Museum (The Rector’s Palace, Dubrovnik, December 7, 2023 – April 30, 2024)

The catalog Ships in Photographs and Picture Postcards from the mid-19th to the Middle of the 20th Century introduces material from the holdings of the Maritime Museum (Collection of Old Photographs and Picture Postcards) and of the Cultural History Museum (Collection of Picture Postcards) of Dubrovnik Museums, as well as items from privately owned collections. It consists of photographs and postcards created between 1866 and the 1960s, with motifs of ships owned by Dubrovnik shipping companies and ships of other shipowners that sailed in the Dubrovnik waters. Apart from a few yachts and sailing ships, it is mostly steamships that are depicted, those owned by the big coastal line navigation companies, such as Dubrovnik Steam Shipping Navigation, Austrian Lloyd, Hungarian-Croatian Steam Shipping Company (Ungaro Croata), Dalmatia as well as Adriatic Navigation. The ships were built in foreign shipyards, like Trieste Lloyd, English, German, and Scottish yards; some were built in domestic yards in Gruž and Mali Lošinj.

A total of 86 ships have been presented in detail, with over two hundred photographs and postcards. The oldest photograph, which shows the barque Gino, was taken sometime between 1866 and 1876. The author is Tomaso Burato, one of the best photographers in the history of Croatian photography.

The Meštrović Gallery – Catalogue of the Permanent Display

Ivan Meštrović Museums (enlarged edition of the catalogue of the permanent display of the Meštrović Gallery from 2018)

The Meštrović Gallery in Split is the former family villa and studio of Croatian sculptor Ivan Meštrović (1883 – 1962), which became a museum institution in 1952. The Gallery houses the artist's masterpieces executed in marble (Psyche, 1927; Contemplation, 1924), bronze (Distant Chords, 1918; Cyclops, 1933; Persephone, 1946; Virgin with Child, 1917; Job, 1946), wood (Sad Angels and Happy Angels, 1916) and plaster (Pietà, 1942-1943).

The permanent exhibition of the Meštrović Gallery was opened to the public in 1998, continuing to amaze visitors and inspire art lovers. This catalog edition takes cognizance of all the changes to the permanent display, referring to the current state of the exhibition set-up. The sequence of catalog entries follows the spatial arrangement from the sculpture park to the exhibition halls on the ground floor and first floor of the house.

Each exhibit is presented with a photo and text that includes iconographic, stylistic, and comparative analysis, as well as references to the artist's life and events. The catalog has been supplemented with new knowledge and information about other copies of works, which will serve as a valuable source of information for experts and researchers of the sculptor's work.

Dubrovnik Museums – Maritime Museum
Guide

Richly illustrated and 152 pages long, this third enlarged edition published in 2023 contains seven chapters on the maritime past of the Dubrovnik region, from Antiquity until the present time, presented in chronological order. The guide also provides the most important information about the Maritime Museum, its history, and its rich holdings, which today number over 5,000 objects divided into fifteen collections, of which slightly more than 700 are on display in the St. John’s fortress in the city port.

The authors of the texts are Ana Kazančić Skurić and Ljerka Dunatov.

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