Muzej grada Šibenika

About the museum

The Muzej grada Šibenika (Šibenik City Museum) was founded in 1925 on the initiative of Don Krsto Stošić, who believed that Šibenik must have its own museum. After the Second World War the museum was restored by Frane Dujmović, and the long-serving director Slave Grubišić developed it into a major cultural institution. The museum’s first century of work was marked in 2025 by the exhibition “Naših prvih sto” (“Our First Hundred”) and a photo monograph.

The museum is housed in the Kneževa palača (Prince’s Palace), the former seat of the town’s prince. The palace was built and reshaped between the 13th and 18th centuries, so that a large part of its interior has lost its original appearance. The permanent display occupies the atrium and the south wing and presents the history of the town and its surroundings from the 6th millennium BC to 1797, when Venetian rule ended.

In the atrium are archaeological finds from some fifty sites in the Šibenik area, arranged from prehistory through antiquity and late antiquity to the Middle Ages. On the ground floor of the south wing the period from the Croatian rulers to the early 15th century follows, and on the upper floor are Baroque art, Humanism, music, and fortresses and wars. The museum has archaeological, ethnographic, cultural-historical, conservation-restoration and recent history departments.

Highlights

• Finds of the Danilo culture from the 6th and 5th millennia BC, among them Danilo rhytons
• Reconstructed altar screen from the 6th century from the early Christian twin churches at Srima – Prižba
• Copy of the charter of King Petar Krešimir IV from 1066
• Works linked to the St James’s Cathedral (Katedrala sv. Jakova) in Šibenik, and Gothic and Renaissance art
• Original editions of the works of Faust Vrančić, “Machinae Novae” and “Rječnik”

Permanent exhibition

• Stalni postav Muzeja grada Šibenika – The display in the atrium and the south wing of the Prince’s Palace follows the history of the town and its surroundings from prehistory to 1797, with archaeological finds, medieval and Baroque art, Humanism, music and fortresses.

Founded

1925

Director

Toni Brajković

Admission & discounts

For visits outside regular opening hours the admission is twice the price. Individual visits are paid only in cash (€); organised groups (for example through travel agencies) may pay by voucher or invoice after the visit.

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