Museum of Arts and Crafts, Art and craft museum in Mimara Neighborhood, Zagreb, Croatia.
The Museum of Arts and Crafts is a craft and art museum in the Donji grad neighborhood of Zagreb, housed in a Renaissance Revival building. Its collections cover ceramics, glass, furniture, metalwork, musical instruments, paintings, photographs, sculptures, textiles, and religious objects.
The museum was founded in 1880 and soon moved into a building constructed specifically for it in the Renaissance Revival style. It was the first institution of this kind in Croatia, modeled on similar museums in Vienna and London.
The museum is known in Croatian as Muzej za umjetnost i obrt and sits on one of the main squares in Zagreb's city center. The rooms are arranged by material and period, so as you walk through, you can clearly follow how craft forms shifted over the centuries.
The museum sits directly on Marshal Tito Square in central Zagreb, within easy walking distance of the main train station. Since the collections are spread across several floors, it is worth allowing more time than you might initially expect.
The museum holds one of the few surviving historic clock collections in the Balkans, with timepieces spanning several centuries. Many of these pieces came from the private holdings of Croatian noble families and were donated to the museum over time.
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