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In 1998, a decision was made to move the museum to a brand new building on the corner of Dubrovnik and Većeslav Holjevac avenues in Novi Zagreb district. A competition for the building's design was held, and architect Igor Franić's design was chosen out of 85 entries submitted. The cornerstone for the new building was laid in November 2003 ...
www.nmmu.hr The Modern Gallery entrance at night Modern Gallery ( Croatian : Moderna galerija ; since 2021 the National Museum of Modern Art , Nacionalni muzej moderne umjetnosti ) is a museum in Zagreb , Croatia that holds the most important and comprehensive collection of paintings , sculptures and drawings by 19th and 20th century Croatian ...
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The institution was founded in Zagreb on 29 April 1861 by the decision of the Croatian Parliament as the Yugoslav Academy of Sciences and Arts. [4] The bishop and benefactor Josip Juraj Strossmayer, a prominent advocate of higher education during the 19th century Croatian national romanticism, set up a trust fund for this purpose and in 1860 submitted a large donation to the then viceroy of ...
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.
Zagreb Assembly (Croatian: Zagrebački zbor), the predecessor to Zagreb Fair, was founded by a group of Croatian businessmen, including Ferdinand Budicki and Samuel David Alexander. The Assembly was one of the co-founding institutions of The Global Association of the Exhibition Industry in 1925.
However, the remaining two venues in Zagreb's historic Upper Town continued to function, with GKD and Lotrščak Tower hosting various kinds of travelling exhibitions of both Croatian and international artists. It produces some 30 exhibitions every year and is one of the largest such institutions in the country. [3]
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.