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The museum was founded by two Zagreb-based artists, Olinka Vištica, a film producer, and Dražen Grubišić, a sculptor. [5] After their four-year love relationship came to an end in 2003, the two joked about setting up a museum to house the left-over personal items. [6]
It produces some 30 exhibitions every year and is one of the largest such institutions in the country. [ 3 ] In cooperation with Hungarian National Museum in Budapest , Gallery organised two joint exhibitions: on 800-years of joint cultural heritage in 2020 [ 5 ] and of 19-th century Croatian and Hungarian arts of painting in 2024, as a part of ...
For over thirty years the Mimara Museum has been a centre of the artistic, cultural and social scene in Zagreb. When the museum opened on July 17, 1987, an important collection of art, the "masterwork" of one of the greatest art collectors in this part of the world, Ante Topić Mimara, was presented to the public.
When the Jesuits arrived in Zagreb in the early 17th century, they thought the original church too rundown and inadequate, and worked to build a new church. Construction began in 1620 and was completed in 1632. [2] A monastery was built adjacent to the church, but now the spot is home to the Klovićevi dvori art gallery.
In 1848, the square was renamed to its present name. [2] A large statue of Ban Josip Jelačić on a horse, created by Austrian sculptor Anton Dominik Fernkorn was installed on 19 October 1866 by Austrian authorities, despite protests from Zagreb councilmen. [citation needed] It also caused unease amongst Hungarians, who saw Jelačić as a traitor.
The Zagreb Funicular (Croatian: Zagrebačka uspinjača) is the funicular in Zagreb, Croatia, operated by ZET, situated in Tomić Street, connecting Ilica with Strossmayerovo šetalište (Strossmayer promenade) to the north (Gornji Grad). Its 66-metre (217 ft) track makes it one of the shortest public-transport funiculars in the world.
Croatian History Museum (Croatian: Hrvatski povijesni muzej) is a museum of history located in the Vojković Palace on Antun Gustav Matoš Street in the historic Gornji Grad district of Zagreb, Croatia. The museum holdings consist of around 300,000 objects divided into 17 collections. [2]
The Meštrović Pavilion (Croatian: Meštrovićev paviljon), also known as the Home of the Croatian Visual Artists (Croatian: Dom hrvatskih likovnih umjetnika) and colloquially as the Mosque (Croatian: Džamija), is a cultural venue and the official seat of the Croatian Society of Fine Artists (HDLU) located on the Square of the Victims of Fascism in central Zagreb, Croatia.