Stanko Staničić was born in 1929 in Sigetec by Koprivnica. He completed his high school education in Zagreb, and took a BA (art history) from the Faculty of Philosophy in Zagreb. His entire career was at the Museum of Arts and Crafts in Zagreb. Zdenko Vojnović had a great influence on his life; from this teacher he learned a great deal about museology and museums in general; another big influence was Zdenka Munk, who was director of the Museum of Arts and Crafts for 25 years of his career. As a young curator he first of all worked in the Textile Collection, and from 1963 was curator of the Furniture Department with his co-worker Vera Kružić Uchytil.
When Olga Klobučar retired, he took over the running of the Ceramics Department. His interest was more in contemporary pottery. He put on a large number of exhibitions, and did the display for the ceramics section in the new permanent display of the Museum of Arts and Crafts in 1995.
He was the author of numbers of catalogues that accompanied exhibitions put on at home and abroad. He wrote many articles about furniture and décor, about leather processing and the techniques of decorating leather. He wrote articles for the retrospective and monograph exhibition and parts of catalogues of big projects: the Baroque in Croatia, Biedermeier in Croatia, Ceramics of Historicism in Croatia.
He completed the work on the catalogue of Meissen-Vienna Porcelain, Collection of Ceramics of the Museum of Arts and Crafts. For his work, he won the Order of the Croatian Daystar with Figure of Marko Marulić, the Memorial of Homeland Gratitude, and the" Pavao Ritter Vitezović" Prize of the Croatian Museum Association for lifetime achievement, 2004.

NB. Data taken from the questionnaire, material taken from the Personnel Archives of the MDC, and from an interview recorded on June 10, 2002.