Narodni muzej Zadar

About the museum

The Narodni muzej Zadar has been part of the public museum service since 1832, when the Austrian governor of Dalmatia, Vetter von Lilienberg, called on district administrators and bishops to collect heritage for a provincial museum based in Zadar. From these beginnings the Arheološki muzej kod sv. Donata (Archaeological Museum at St Donatus) emerged in 1880, and in 1905 the Gradski prirodoslovni muzej (City Natural History Museum) was founded, whose collections form the basis of today's Natural History Department.

In September 1945 the Narodni muzej (National Museum) was founded with a natural history and an ethnographic department; in 1952 the departments became independent museums. In 1962 the city committee re-established the Narodni muzej as a complex museum, bringing together the natural history and ethnological departments, the Galerija umjetnina (Gallery of Art, founded 1948) and the new Muzej grada Zadra. During the Homeland War in 1991 the museum's administrative building was damaged.

Today the museum holds around 100,000 objects, and its founder is the Zadarska županija (Zadar County). It exhibits in the Kneževa palača (Rector's Palace), the Providurova palača (Provveditore's Palace) and the Gradska loža (Town Loggia). In the Kneževa palača, on the first floor, is the display “Šest salonskih priča” (Six Salon Stories), and the Natural History Department has an exhibition on the vertebrates of the Adriatic. The museum also manages branch collections on the island of Iž.

Highlights

• Display “Šest salonskih priča” (Six Salon Stories) in the ceremonial halls of the Kneževa palača
• Natural History Department with the exhibition “Kralješnjaci Jadrana – Vrijeme promjena” (Vertebrates of the Adriatic – Time of Change)
• Muzej grada Zadra (Zadar City Museum) and Galerija umjetnina (Gallery of Art)
• Exhibition venues: Gradska loža and Providurova palača
• Collection of around 100,000 objects

Permanent exhibitions

• Šest salonskih priča (povijesni ambijenti Narodnog muzeja Zadar) – In the ceremonial halls on the first floor of the Kneževa palača, 76 objects present six periods of Zadar's history through six “salon stories” and ask how much of Zadar remains in its cultural and artistic works.
• Kralješnjaci Jadrana – Vrijeme promjena – Exhibition of the Natural History Department on the vertebrates of the Adriatic.

Founded

1832

Operated by

Zadarska županija

Director

Marin Ćurković

Admission & discounts

Kneževa palača and Providurova palača: individual ticket for each exhibition €5 (students, pensioners and groups €2), joint ticket €10. Natural History Department: adults €5, pupils and students €2.50, family €10. Admission is free for persons with disabilities, ICOM members, journalists, tourist guides, art historians and preschool children; in the Natural History Department also for Croatian pensioners, persons with disabilities and HMD members.

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