- Thursday 3/9/2026
- Friday 4/9/2026
- Saturday 5/9/2026
- Sunday 6/9/2026
Museum Wellbeing Reset
MUV on site
Limited capacity – sign up required
Museum Wellbeing Reset in the atrium of the Croatian Natural History Museum is an experiential programme conceived as a space of slowing down, regeneration and return to inner balance. In a unique museum setting, participants go through a...
Event time
08:00–10:00
- Location
- Demetrova ulica 1
Zagreb, Before It Even Existed
Cultural city walk
Limited capacity – sign up required
There is truly nothing unusual about a morning walk through the centre of Zagreb. It is just as ordinary, on such an occasion, to run into a friend, a sweetheart or an acquaintance, a neighbour or a schoolmate. It is perhaps only slightly...
Event time
09:30–10:30
- Location
- Zrinjevac 19
Secrets of the Museum Storeroom
Guided exhibition tour
Limited capacity – sign up required
Visitors will discover the secrets of the museum storeroom with expert guidance from curators and conservators, and will have a unique opportunity to peek into the otherwise hidden world of the museum and experience the “museum behind...
Event time
10:00; 11:00
- Location
- Kačićeva ulica 9/2
Mijo Kišpatić – a Quiet Visionary
Exhibition
The Croatian Natural History Museum in Zagreb presents a unique exhibition dedicated to Mijo Kišpatić, one of the most important Croatian naturalists of the late 19th and early 20th century. In 2026 we mark the 175th anniversary of the...
Event time
All day
- Location
- Demetrova ulica 1
Croats on the Frozen Sea, 1872–1874
Exhibition
The exhibition tells the story of one of the most important polar expeditions of the 19th century – the Austro-Hungarian scientific Arctic expedition of 1872–1874. A particularly valuable part of this historical story is the fact...
Event time
All day
- Location
- Demetrova ulica 1
Once Upon a Time… Croatian Toy Factories in the 20th Century
Exhibition
The exhibition offers an overview of the development of the domestic toy industry, with special reference to the factories Biserka, UZOR, Jugoplastika, 25. maj – Labin and TIK-TIK Krapina, which during the second half of the 20th century...
Event time
All day
- Location
- Hebrangova ulica 5
Bravely Off to School
Workshop
Limited capacity – sign up required
A museum workshop about friendship, emotions and the first steps at school. A warm and gentle workshop that helps children understand their feelings and strengthen their sense of security in new life situations. Through play, conversation...
Event time
10:00; 12:00
- Location
- Hebrangova ulica 5
Current exhibitions of Zagreb City Museum
Exhibition
Alongside the permanent exhibition, during the Zagreb Museum Weekend visitors to the Museum can also see as many as four exhibitions: To Sljeme! Stories from Zagreb Mountain , Zagreb Post-Earthquake Archaeology, Beauty Has a Woman’s Name i...
Event time
All day
- Location
- Opatička ulica 20
Permanent Exhibition of the Zagreb City Museum
Exhibition
Step into a story that has been alive for centuries. The permanent exhibition of the Zagreb City Museum extends over more than 2,000 square metres and turns history into an experience that is not observed — but lived. From archaeological...
Event time
All day
- Location
- Opatička ulica 20
Retro Playroom – back to the games we all remember!
Family fun
Before swiping there were hopscotch squares, dice and cards! Go back to a time when the best technology was – a good game. Ludo, belote… The games that marked childhood are taking over the Museum foyer! Bring your family and friends, roll...
Event time
10:00–20:00
- Location
- Opatička ulica 20
Guided tour of the apartment of Vjenceslav Richter and Nada Kareš Richter
Guided exhibition tour
The single-storey villa at Vrhovec 38 was once the home of the architect Vjenceslav Richter and his wife, the actress Nada Kareš Richter, and today it houses the Richter Collection and an exhibition space for contemporary art. Its history...
Event time
10:00–20:00
- Location
- Vrhovec 38
Guided exhibition: “SintArt 20: Sara Salamon”
Guided exhibition tour
As part of the SintArt cycle, the Collection of Vjenceslav Richter and Nada Kareš Richter presents a solo exhibition by the artist Sara Salamon entitled Mise en abyme. Taking space as a system that “performs itself” as her starting point,...
Event time
10:00–20:00
- Location
- Vrhovec 38
SintArt 20: Sara Salamon
Exhibition
As part of the SintArt cycle, the Collection of Vjenceslav Richter and Nada Kareš Richter presents a solo exhibition by the artist Sara Salamon entitled Mise en abyme. Taking space as a system that “performs itself” as her starting point,...
Event time
All day
- Location
- Vrhovec 38
Visit to the apartment of Vjenceslav Richter and Nada Kareš Richter
Exhibition
The single-storey villa at Vrhovec 38 was once the home of the architect Vjenceslav Richter and his wife, the actress Nada Kareš Richter, and today it houses the Richter Collection and an exhibition space for contemporary art. Its history...
Event time
All day
- Location
- Vrhovec 38
ORGAN VIDA 14: Happy Spiraling
Exhibition
This year’s edition of Organ Vida, titled Happy Spiraling, seeks to find meaning in an everyday life oversaturated with images. We ask how contemporary visual culture reflects reality, but also how it actively produces it: how it shapes...
Event time
All day
- Location
- Avenija Dubrovnik 17
Željko Jerman: Death in Korkyra – From the MSU Collection
Exhibition
On the occasion of the twentieth anniversary of the death of Željko Jerman (Zagreb, 1949 – Korčula, 2006), the Museum of Contemporary Art (MSU), in collaboration with Grey Zone (Siva Zona), a space for contemporary and media art in...
Event time
All day
- Location
- Avenija Dubrovnik 17
Ongoing exhibition: The Collection as a Verb (Sad Songs of War; Comradeship; Futures; Flowers–Non-Flowers–Something Third) & Situations: From the Collection: Željko Jerman
Exhibition
The exhibition cycle “The Collection as a Verb” presents a new ongoing exhibition of the Museum of Contemporary Art which redefines the understanding of the museum and the social context in which it operates. The exhibitions are not a...
Event time
All day
- Location
- Avenija Dubrovnik 17
Half an Instant of a Life
Exhibition
The exhibition “Half an Instant of a Life” reflects the visual fascinations of the graphic designer and artist Vjeran Juhas, which are brought into relation with objects from the holdings of the Museum of Arts and Crafts. Through the media...
Event time
All day
- Location
- Ilica 163a
Permanent Exhibition of Folk Costumes
Exhibition
The permanent exhibition, located in the northern wing of the first floor, presents folk costumes from Croatia dating from the end of the 19th and the first half of the 20th century, arranged according to cultural regions: eastern, central...
Event time
All day
- Location
- Trg Antuna, Ivana i Vladimira Mažuranića 14
Travelers
Exhibition
The exhibition “Travelers” follows the journeys of people and objects from colonial times to the present day and examines the circumstances in which the Collection of Non-European Cultures was formed. In the introductory section we point...
Event time
All day
- Location
- Trg Antuna, Ivana i Vladimira Mažuranića 14
earth//soil
Exhibition
The exhibition examines the relationship of human beings towards the soil – for which the exhibition title uses the colloquial Croatian word for earth – and towards the Earth as a planet. In the introductory section the author’s intention...
Event time
All day
- Location
- Trg Antuna, Ivana i Vladimira Mažuranića 14
A Pause in the Lapidarium
MUV on site
A Pause in the Lapidarium is a project of the Archaeological Museum in Zagreb through which, on the occasion of the museum’s 180th anniversary, the Lapidarium is temporarily turned into a quiet, shaded and green oasis in the heart of the...
Event time
10:00–20:00
- Location
- Zrinjevac 19
Sag mir wo die Blumen sind
Art installation
In the courtyard of the Gvozdanović Palace, the Museum of Arts and Crafts is installing a floral and sound site-specific installation by Vanja Blumenšajn, an author whose work stands on the border between art and craft. In his practice,...
Event time
All day
- Location
- Visoka ulica 8
Permanent Exhibition of the Archaeological Museum in Zagreb
Exhibition
The permanent exhibition of the Archaeological Museum in Zagreb is conceived as a thematic and chronological cross-section of the Prehistoric, Ancient, Egyptian, Medieval, and Numismatic Collections. Among the many objects that bear...
Event time
All day
- Location
- Zrinjevac 19
The Dresden Diary of Anka Krizmanić
Exhibition
The exhibition “The Dresden Diary of Anka Krizmanić” is dedicated to the work of Anka Krizmanić and offers insight into her artistic practice, visual language, and place within Croatian Expressionism.
Event time
All day
- Location
- Opatička ulica 20
The Stars Above Us: The Evolution of Galaxies Through Cosmic History and What Black Holes Have to Do with It
Discursive programme
Limited capacity – sign up required
These interesting and educational lectures on the universe, its origin and development bring astronomy closer to a wider audience through clear and inspiring scientific stories. The programme covers topics ranging from the Big Bang and the...
Event time
11:00–12:30
- Location
- Demetrova ulica 1
Guided tour of the Art Pavilion
Guided exhibition tour
Limited capacity – sign up required
The guided tour is intended for all visitors who wish to become acquainted with the rich history of the Art Pavilion in Zagreb – the first purpose-built exhibition building in Croatia and one of the most important monuments of Croatian...
Event time
11:00–12:00
- Location
- Trg Kralja Tomislava 22
Guided tours of the permanent exhibition
Guided exhibition tour
Limited capacity – sign up required
The permanent exhibition of the Archaeological Museum in Zagreb is conceived as a thematic and chronological cross-section of the Prehistoric, Classical, Egyptian, Medieval and Numismatic collections. Among the many objects testifying to...
Event time
11:00; 15:00
- Location
- Zrinjevac 19
Expert Guided Tour of the Museum Mine
Guided exhibition tour
Limited capacity – sign up required
Located in the underground premises of the Nikola Tesla Technical Museum is a life-size model of a coal and metal mine, with a total length of more than 300 metres and a maximum depth of six metres. The mine is an exceptionally valuable...
Event time
11:00; 15:00
- Location
- Savska cesta 18
15 Minutes on Anti-War Art
Guided exhibition tour
Limited capacity – sign up required
Instalacija Sag mir wo die Blumen sind by Vanja Blumenšajn provides the starting point for a 15- minute conversation about how art can become a clear response to war and violence. How does an artwork become a protest? Why do some artists...
Event time
11:00; 13:00; 15:00; 17:00; 19:00
- Location
- Visoka ulica 8
Available in Croatian and English language
Nikola Tesla show
Play
Limited capacity – sign up required
A demonstration of Tesla’s inventions with the active participation of the audience, held in the museum’s Nikola Tesla cabinet on faithful replicas of Tesla’s instruments and devices made according to Tesla’s original drawings and patent...
Event time
11:30; 15:30; 18:30
- Location
- Savska cesta 18
Available in Croatian and English language
EXPRESS TOURS: Top 5 +
Guided exhibition tour
Limited capacity – sign up required
For visitors who want a quick but memorable museum experience, the “Express Tours” offer a dynamic guided visit through the most interesting and most unusual museum content. The programme includes the “Top 5 exhibits” you simply must see,...
Event time
12:00; 14:00; 16:00; 18:00
- Location
- Demetrova ulica 1
Expert Guided Tour of the Museum Planetarium
Guided exhibition tour
Limited capacity – sign up required
The Planetarium of the Nikola Tesla Technical Museum opened to the public on 18 May 1965. Its operation is based on a specially designed Zeiss projector, which projects around 5,000 stars and illustrates the movement of stars,...
Event time
12:00; 16:00
- Location
- Savska cesta 18
Curator-led tour of the exhibition “Travelers”
Guided exhibition tour
Limited capacity – sign up required
In the exhibition “Travelers” we will follow the journeys of people and objects from colonial times to the present day and examine the circumstances in which the Collection of Non-European Cultures was formed. What connects...
Event time
13:00–13:30
- Location
- Trg Antuna, Ivana i Vladimira Mažuranića 14
Curator-led tour of the exhibition “Joso Bužan”
Guided exhibition tour
Limited capacity – sign up required
The museum collections hold works that are unknown to the public, and comparing the holdings of different institutions makes it possible to provide better context and to share interesting stories about Joso Bužan and his time. The...
Event time
14:00–14:30
- Location
- Trg Antuna, Ivana i Vladimira Mažuranića 14
Curator-led tour of the exhibition Once Upon a Time… Croatian Toy Factories in the 20th Century
Guided exhibition tour
Limited capacity – sign up required
The exhibition offers an overview of the development of the domestic toy industry, with special reference to the factories Biserka, UZOR, Jugoplastika, 25. maj – Labin and TIK-TIK Krapina, which during the second half of the 20th century...
Event time
14:00–14:30
- Location
- Hebrangova ulica 5
A Moment on Paper
Workshop
Limited capacity – sign up required
Through the creative writing workshop participants explore their own thoughts and feelings, developing awareness and presence in the moment. The focus is on the introspective process, in which words become a tool for reflection, calm and a...
Event time
17:00–19:00
- Location
- Trg Antuna, Ivana i Vladimira Mažuranića 14
Curator-led tour of the exhibition “In Spite Of”
Guided exhibition tour
Limited capacity – sign up required
The exhibition presents short poems by Goran Đurđević, shown alongside portraits of historical figures who made significant contributions despite their disabilities. The content of the poems is available in Braille for blind and partially...
Event time
17:00–17:30
- Location
- Kačićeva ulica 9/2
Guided tour of the exhibition “Half an Instant of a Life
Guided exhibition tour
Limited capacity – sign up required
The exhibition “Half an Instant of a Life” reflects the visual fascinations of the graphic designer and artist Vjeran Juhas, which are brought into relation with objects from the holdings of the Museum of Arts and Crafts. Through the media...
Event time
17:00–17:45
- Location
- Ilica 163a
Curator-led tour of the exhibition earth//soil
Guided exhibition tour
Limited capacity – sign up required
The exhibition explores the relationship of human beings towards the soil and towards the Earth as a planet, emphasising the connection between people and soil and its key role in the quality of food, water and air, as well as in human...
Event time
17:30–18:00
- Location
- Trg Antuna, Ivana i Vladimira Mažuranića 14
Who Is Petrica Kerempuh?
Workshop
Limited capacity – sign up required
Through a short expert introduction, participants will get to know the character of Petrica Kerempuh, the tradition of puppetry and different types of puppets and theatrical forms. Special emphasis will be placed on shadow theatre and the...
Event time
18:00–20:00
- Location
- Trg Dragutina Domjanića 5
What Are You Drawing? A conversation on illustration
Discursive programme
Limited capacity – sign up required
The conversation on illustration brings together contemporary Croatian illustrators and the interested public around topics concerning the development of illustration, its role in culture and society and the challenges it faces today....
Event time
18:00–19:30
- Location
- Ilica 163a
Guided tour of the museum mine with miners’ poetry
Guided exhibition tour
Limited capacity – sign up required
A full-size model of a coal and metal mine is located in the underground spaces of the Nikola Tesla Technical Museum. The mine shaft, with a total length of more than three hundred metres and a maximum depth of six metres, offers visitors...
Event time
18:00–18:30
- Location
- Savska cesta 18
Atrium live: Pčelica brujalica
Play
Limited capacity – sign up required
Atrium Live is a programme cycle in which guest theatre companies perform in the atrium of the Croatian Natural History Museum, turning it into a living stage platform open to different theatrical poetics and performance approaches. The...
Event time
18:00–19:00
- Location
- Demetrova ulica 1
The Stars Above Us: Why Are We Going Back to the Moon?
Discursive programme
Limited capacity – sign up required
These interesting and educational lectures on the universe, its origin and development bring astronomy closer to a wider audience through clear and inspiring scientific stories. The programme covers topics ranging from the Big Bang and the...
Event time
18:00–19:30
- Location
- Demetrova ulica 1
A Break Before the Official Opening of MUV
MUV on site
Before the official opening of MUV, visitors and participants are invited to a special programme, A Break in the Lapidarium — an informal warm-up and get-together in a relaxed atmosphere. The programme begins at 6:30 PM in the Lapidarium...
Event time
18:30–20:00
- Location
- Zrinjevac 19
Relaxing Under the Stars
MUV on site
Limited capacity – sign up required
A relaxing experience of observing constellations and planets, with narration by the planetarium guide and suitable background music. The programme takes place in the pleasant setting of the museum planetarium built in 1965, using the...
Event time
19:00–19:40
- Location
- Savska cesta 18
Music and visual performance in the planetarium
Play
Limited capacity – sign up required
An acoustic concert beneath the dome of the museum planetarium, in which the space is an active part of the performance. The narration of the planetarium guide is unobtrusively interwoven with the projection of the starry sky and the live...
Event time
20:00–20:40
- Location
- Savska cesta 18
Exhibition opening: A Foundation for the Future – The Klovićevi dvori Gallery Collection of Donated Artwork
Opening
The Klovićevi dvori Gallery Collection of Donated Artwork is the result of donations by artists or their heirs who, after exhibiting at the Klovićevi Dvori Gallery, generously donated their works to our institution. Over time an impressive...
Event time
20:00–22:00
- Location
- Jezuitski trg 4
Official Opening of MUV 2026
Opening
Zagreb Museum Weekend officially begins on Thursday, September 3, 2026, at 8:00 PM with a ceremonial opening at the Klovićevi dvori Gallery and the exhibition Foundation for the Future – The Collection of Donated Artworks of the Klovićevi...
Event time
20:00–22:00
- Location
- Jezuitski trg 4
KviZG
Family fun
Limited capacity – sign up required
Do you think you know Zagreb down to the last street? It’s time to prove it! Come to the Zagreb City Museum for KviZG – a general knowledge quiz about our city. Bring your brain, your sense of humour and a good team, because you will be...
Event time
21:00–22:30
- Location
- Opatička ulica 20
Museum Wellbeing Reset
MUV on site
Limited capacity – sign up required
Museum Wellbeing Reset in the atrium of the Croatian Natural History Museum is an experiential programme conceived as a space of slowing down, regeneration and return to inner balance. In a unique museum setting, participants go through a...
Event time
08:00–10:00
- Location
- Demetrova ulica 1
Zagreb, Before It Even Existed
Cultural city walk
Limited capacity – sign up required
There is truly nothing unusual about a morning walk through the centre of Zagreb. It is just as ordinary, on such an occasion, to run into a friend, a sweetheart or an acquaintance, a neighbour or a schoolmate. It is perhaps only slightly...
Event time
09:30–10:30
- Location
- Zrinjevac 19
Secrets of the Museum Storeroom
Guided exhibition tour
Limited capacity – sign up required
Visitors will discover the secrets of the museum storeroom with expert guidance from curators and conservators, and will have a unique opportunity to peek into the otherwise hidden world of the museum and experience the “museum behind...
Event time
10:00; 11:00
- Location
- Kačićeva ulica 9/2
Mijo Kišpatić – a Quiet Visionary
Exhibition
The Croatian Natural History Museum in Zagreb presents a unique exhibition dedicated to Mijo Kišpatić, one of the most important Croatian naturalists of the late 19th and early 20th century. In 2026 we mark the 175th anniversary of the...
Event time
All day
- Location
- Demetrova ulica 1
Croats on the Frozen Sea, 1872–1874
Exhibition
The exhibition tells the story of one of the most important polar expeditions of the 19th century – the Austro-Hungarian scientific Arctic expedition of 1872–1874. A particularly valuable part of this historical story is the fact...
Event time
All day
- Location
- Demetrova ulica 1
Once Upon a Time… Croatian Toy Factories in the 20th Century
Exhibition
The exhibition offers an overview of the development of the domestic toy industry, with special reference to the factories Biserka, UZOR, Jugoplastika, 25. maj – Labin and TIK-TIK Krapina, which during the second half of the 20th century...
Event time
All day
- Location
- Hebrangova ulica 5
From Play to Keepsake
Workshop
Limited capacity – sign up required
A museum workshop about play, memories and emotional connection. The workshop creates a pleasant and stimulating space in which children and adults build a sense of closeness and belonging through play and shared experience. Starting from...
Event time
10:00; 12:00
- Location
- Hebrangova ulica 5
Current exhibitions of Zagreb City Museum
Exhibition
Alongside the permanent exhibition, during the Zagreb Museum Weekend visitors to the Museum can also see as many as four exhibitions: To Sljeme! Stories from Zagreb Mountain , Zagreb Post-Earthquake Archaeology, Beauty Has a Woman’s Name i...
Event time
All day
- Location
- Opatička ulica 20
Permanent Exhibition of the Zagreb City Museum
Exhibition
Step into a story that has been alive for centuries. The permanent exhibition of the Zagreb City Museum extends over more than 2,000 square metres and turns history into an experience that is not observed — but lived. From archaeological...
Event time
All day
- Location
- Opatička ulica 20
Retro Playroom – back to the games we all remember!
Family fun
Before swiping there were hopscotch squares, dice and cards! Go back to a time when the best technology was – a good game. Ludo, belote… The games that marked childhood are taking over the Museum foyer! Bring your family and friends, roll...
Event time
10:00–20:00
- Location
- Opatička ulica 20
Guided tour of the apartment of Vjenceslav Richter and Nada Kareš Richter
Guided exhibition tour
The single-storey villa at Vrhovec 38 was once the home of the architect Vjenceslav Richter and his wife, the actress Nada Kareš Richter, and today it houses the Richter Collection and an exhibition space for contemporary art. Its history...
Event time
10:00–20:00
- Location
- Vrhovec 38
Guided exhibition: “SintArt 20: Sara Salamon”
Guided exhibition tour
As part of the SintArt cycle, the Collection of Vjenceslav Richter and Nada Kareš Richter presents a solo exhibition by the artist Sara Salamon entitled Mise en abyme. Taking space as a system that “performs itself” as her starting point,...
Event time
10:00–20:00
- Location
- Vrhovec 38
SintArt 20: Sara Salamon
Exhibition
As part of the SintArt cycle, the Collection of Vjenceslav Richter and Nada Kareš Richter presents a solo exhibition by the artist Sara Salamon entitled Mise en abyme. Taking space as a system that “performs itself” as her starting point,...
Event time
All day
- Location
- Vrhovec 38
Visit to the apartment of Vjenceslav Richter and Nada Kareš Richter
Exhibition
The single-storey villa at Vrhovec 38 was once the home of the architect Vjenceslav Richter and his wife, the actress Nada Kareš Richter, and today it houses the Richter Collection and an exhibition space for contemporary art. Its history...
Event time
All day
- Location
- Vrhovec 38
ORGAN VIDA 14: Happy Spiraling
Exhibition
This year’s edition of Organ Vida, titled Happy Spiraling, seeks to find meaning in an everyday life oversaturated with images. We ask how contemporary visual culture reflects reality, but also how it actively produces it: how it shapes...
Event time
All day
- Location
- Avenija Dubrovnik 17
Željko Jerman: Death in Korkyra – From the MSU Collection
Exhibition
On the occasion of the twentieth anniversary of the death of Željko Jerman (Zagreb, 1949 – Korčula, 2006), the Museum of Contemporary Art (MSU), in collaboration with Grey Zone (Siva Zona), a space for contemporary and media art in...
Event time
All day
- Location
- Avenija Dubrovnik 17
Ongoing exhibition: The Collection as a Verb (Sad Songs of War; Comradeship; Futures; Flowers–Non-Flowers–Something Third) & Situations: From the Collection: Željko Jerman
Exhibition
The exhibition cycle “The Collection as a Verb” presents a new ongoing exhibition of the Museum of Contemporary Art which redefines the understanding of the museum and the social context in which it operates. The exhibitions are not a...
Event time
All day
- Location
- Avenija Dubrovnik 17
Extended Festival: opening / discursive programme
Discursive programme
The Extended festival, co-organised by the Istovremeno artists’ association and the MSU, opens up space for durational performances realised in different media, from contemporary dance, performance art, media art and sound art to...
Event time
10:00–12:00
- Location
- Avenija Dubrovnik 17
Extended Festival: Tomislav Čuveljak – Moving
Art installation
Art installation
“Moving” is an ambient video installation consisting of three video works. The video works shown are meditative in character and were created in collaboration between Josipa Bubaš and Tomislav Čuveljak for the performances “Re-immersion”,...
Event time
All day
- Location
- Avenija Dubrovnik 17
Extended Festival: Željka Klemenčić, The Infinite Pot
Art installation
The Infinite Pot is conceived as an all-day and two-day continuous cooking of various simple ingredients in one large pot. During the day the author will empty the pot – serving guests soup/stew from it – and constantly add new...
Event time
All day
- Location
- Avenija Dubrovnik 17
Installation opening “Sag mir wo die Blumen sind”
Art installation
In the courtyard of the Gvozdanović Palace, the Museum of Arts and Crafts is installing a floral and sound site-specific installation by Vanja Blumenšajn, an author whose work stands on the border between art and craft. In his practice,...
Event time
All day
- Location
- Visoka ulica 8
Half an Instant of a Life
Exhibition
The exhibition “Half an Instant of a Life” reflects the visual fascinations of the graphic designer and artist Vjeran Juhas, which are brought into relation with objects from the holdings of the Museum of Arts and Crafts. Through the media...
Event time
All day
- Location
- Ilica 163a
Permanent Exhibition of Folk Costumes
Exhibition
The permanent exhibition, located in the northern wing of the first floor, presents folk costumes from Croatia dating from the end of the 19th and the first half of the 20th century, arranged according to cultural regions: eastern, central...
Event time
All day
- Location
- Trg Antuna, Ivana i Vladimira Mažuranića 14
Travelers
Exhibition
The exhibition “Travelers” follows the journeys of people and objects from colonial times to the present day and examines the circumstances in which the Collection of Non-European Cultures was formed. In the introductory section we point...
Event time
All day
- Location
- Trg Antuna, Ivana i Vladimira Mažuranića 14
earth//soil
Exhibition
The exhibition examines the relationship of human beings towards the soil – for which the exhibition title uses the colloquial Croatian word for earth – and towards the Earth as a planet. In the introductory section the author’s intention...
Event time
All day
- Location
- Trg Antuna, Ivana i Vladimira Mažuranića 14
New Archaeology – An Exhibition by Andreja Hojnik Fišić and Nikola Rajić
Exhibition
The exhibition title New Archaeology is a deliberate linguistic and conceptual inversion. It does not denote the mere uncovering of antiquities, but a creative process in which two artists act like archaeologists of the contemporary age....
Event time
All day
- Location
- Zrinjevac 19
A Pause in the Lapidarium
MUV on site
A Pause in the Lapidarium is a project of the Archaeological Museum in Zagreb through which, on the occasion of the museum’s 180th anniversary, the Lapidarium is temporarily turned into a quiet, shaded and green oasis in the heart of the...
Event time
10:00–20:00
- Location
- Zrinjevac 19
A Foundation for the Future – The Klovićevi dvori Gallery Collection of Donated Artwork
Exhibition
The Klovićevi dvori Gallery Collection of Donated Artwork is the result of donations by artists or their heirs who, after exhibiting at the Klovićevi Dvori Gallery, generously donated their works to our institution. Over time an impressive...
Event time
All day
- Location
- Jezuitski trg 4
Sag mir wo die Blumen sind
Art installation
In the courtyard of the Gvozdanović Palace, the Museum of Arts and Crafts is installing a floral and sound site-specific installation by Vanja Blumenšajn, an author whose work stands on the border between art and craft. In his practice,...
Event time
All day
- Location
- Visoka ulica 8
Permanent Exhibition of the Archaeological Museum in Zagreb
Exhibition
The permanent exhibition of the Archaeological Museum in Zagreb is conceived as a thematic and chronological cross-section of the Prehistoric, Ancient, Egyptian, Medieval, and Numismatic Collections. Among the many objects that bear...
Event time
All day
- Location
- Zrinjevac 19
The Dresden Diary of Anka Krizmanić
Exhibition
The exhibition “The Dresden Diary of Anka Krizmanić” is dedicated to the work of Anka Krizmanić and offers insight into her artistic practice, visual language, and place within Croatian Expressionism.
Event time
All day
- Location
- Opatička ulica 20
The Expression of Line and Colour
Workshop
Limited capacity – sign up required
The workshop “The Expression of Line and Colour” builds on the exhibition “The Expression of the Body” and on the oeuvre of Anka Krizmanić, exploring the relationship between line, movement and colour as key elements of visual expression....
Event time
10:30–12:00
- Location
- Opatička ulica 20
Lectures accompanying the exhibition Mijo Kišpatić – a Quiet Visionary
Discursive programme
Limited capacity – sign up required
Three lectures will be held as part of the exhibition “Mijo Kišpatić – a Quiet Visionary”, presenting from different perspectives the life, scientific work and rich output of one of the most important Croatian naturalists. Biserka...
Event time
11:00–12:00
- Location
- Demetrova ulica 1
Guided tours of the permanent exhibition
Guided exhibition tour
Limited capacity – sign up required
The permanent exhibition of the Archaeological Museum in Zagreb is conceived as a thematic and chronological cross-section of the Prehistoric, Classical, Egyptian, Medieval and Numismatic collections. Among the many objects testifying to...
Event time
11:00; 15:00
- Location
- Zrinjevac 19
Expert Guided Tour of the Museum Mine
Guided exhibition tour
Limited capacity – sign up required
Located in the underground premises of the Nikola Tesla Technical Museum is a life-size model of a coal and metal mine, with a total length of more than 300 metres and a maximum depth of six metres. The mine is an exceptionally valuable...
Event time
11:00; 15:00
- Location
- Savska cesta 18
Linocut Workshop with Vjeran Juhas
Workshop
Limited capacity – sign up required
The linocut workshop accompanies the exhibition “Half an Instant of a Life”, which brings together original works by Pula-based artist and designer Vjeran Juhas with objects from the collection of the Museum of Arts and Crafts....
Event time
11:00–13:30
- Location
- Ilica 163a
15 Minutes on Anti-War Art
Guided exhibition tour
Limited capacity – sign up required
Instalacija Sag mir wo die Blumen sind by Vanja Blumenšajn provides the starting point for a 15- minute conversation about how art can become a clear response to war and violence. How does an artwork become a protest? Why do some artists...
Event time
11:00; 13:00; 15:00; 17:00; 19:00
- Location
- Visoka ulica 8
Available in Croatian and English language
Nikola Tesla show
Play
Limited capacity – sign up required
A demonstration of Tesla’s inventions with the active participation of the audience, held in the museum’s Nikola Tesla cabinet on faithful replicas of Tesla’s instruments and devices made according to Tesla’s original drawings and patent...
Event time
11:30; 15:30; 18:30
- Location
- Savska cesta 18
Available in Croatian and English language
Curator-led tour of the exhibition earth//soil
Guided exhibition tour
Limited capacity – sign up required
The exhibition explores the relationship of human beings towards the soil and towards the Earth as a planet, emphasising the connection between people and soil and its key role in the quality of food, water and air, as well as in human...
Event time
12:00–12:30
- Location
- Trg Antuna, Ivana i Vladimira Mažuranića 14
EXPRESS TOURS: Top 5 +
Guided exhibition tour
Limited capacity – sign up required
For visitors who want a quick but memorable museum experience, the “Express Tours” offer a dynamic guided visit through the most interesting and most unusual museum content. The programme includes the “Top 5 exhibits” you simply must see,...
Event time
12:00; 14:00; 16:00; 18:00
- Location
- Demetrova ulica 1
Presentation of the catalogue of the exhibition “The Dresden Diary of Anka Krizmanić”
Discursive programme
The presentation of the catalogue of the exhibition “The Dresden Diary of Anka Krizmanić”, dedicated to the work of Anka Krizmanić, will be held with the participation of Aneta Barišić, Ana Šeparović and Tihana Puc, and of the...
Event time
12:00–13:00
- Location
- Opatička ulica 20
Expert Guided Tour of the Museum Planetarium
Guided exhibition tour
Limited capacity – sign up required
The Planetarium of the Nikola Tesla Technical Museum opened to the public on 18 May 1965. Its operation is based on a specially designed Zeiss projector, which projects around 5,000 stars and illustrates the movement of stars,...
Event time
12:00; 16:00
- Location
- Savska cesta 18
Extended Festival: Monika Błaszczak – Soliloquy 04.09.2026
Extended Festival
Soliloquy is a movement practice and choreographic project that studies the ghosts carried by the body. It functions both as a practice taught in workshops and classes and as a series of performances. Each performance is different but...
Event time
13:00–19:00
- Location
- Avenija Dubrovnik 17
Curator-led tour of the exhibition “The Dresden Diary of Anka Krizmanić”
Guided exhibition tour
A curator-led tour of the exhibition “The Dresden Diary of Anka Krizmanić”, dedicated to the work of Anka Krizmanić, will give visitors a more detailed insight into the artist’s oeuvre, the thematic sections of the exhibition...
Event time
13:00–14:00
- Location
- Opatička ulica 20
Curator-led tour of the exhibition Once Upon a Time… Croatian Toy Factories in the 20th Century
Guided exhibition tour
Limited capacity – sign up required
The exhibition offers an overview of the development of the domestic toy industry, with special reference to the factories Biserka, UZOR, Jugoplastika, 25. maj – Labin and TIK-TIK Krapina, which during the second half of the 20th century...
Event time
14:00–14:30
- Location
- Hebrangova ulica 5
Traces of the Earth
Workshop
Limited capacity – sign up required
An art workshop for observation, creation and the experience of nature. Through the artistic process and guided observation, participants explore the relationship between people and nature and develop their own experience of space. The...
Event time
16:00–18:00
- Location
- Avenija Dubrovnik 17
Slow Down – Intuitive Embroidery as a Mindfulness Method
Workshop
Limited capacity – sign up required
In a fast-paced world we often forget the importance of the present moment; through mindfulness, awareness and intuitive embroidery, this workshop helps us to slow down and connect with ourselves. Once a quiet activity for women,...
Event time
16:00–18:00
- Location
- Trg Antuna, Ivana i Vladimira Mažuranića 14
Gradec in the Middle Ages
Cultural city walk
Limited capacity – sign up required
Our thematic guided tour Gradec in the Middle Ages, led by the Tavern Maid, takes you through the Upper Town, where every stone has its story and every square hides a secret from the Middle Ages. Experience the city through the eyes of its...
Event time
17:00–18:00
- Location
- Opatička ulica 20
Secrets of the Sesvete Bunkers
Cultural city walk
Cultural city walk
Limited capacity – sign up required
The walk reveals the hidden world of fortification structures built in the 1950s in the area of Sesvete. Through a layered approach, careful planning and the integration of different branches of the armed forces, the Cold War bunkers on...
Event time
17:00–18:00
- Location
- Kelekova ulica 2
Guided tour of the exhibition “Half an Instant of a Life
Guided exhibition tour
Limited capacity – sign up required
The exhibition “Half an Instant of a Life” reflects the visual fascinations of the graphic designer and artist Vjeran Juhas, which are brought into relation with objects from the holdings of the Museum of Arts and Crafts. Through the media...
Event time
17:00–17:45
- Location
- Ilica 163a
The Touch of Silence
Workshop
Limited capacity – sign up required
The ceramics workshop focuses on slowing down and connecting with oneself through tactile, calming work with clay. Shaping and repetitive movements develop awareness and presence in the moment and release everyday stress. The emphasis is...
Event time
17:00–19:30
- Location
- Kačićeva ulica 9/2
Curator-led tour of the exhibition “Travelers”
Guided exhibition tour
Limited capacity – sign up required
In the exhibition “Travelers” we will follow the journeys of people and objects from colonial times to the present day and examine the circumstances in which the Collection of Non-European Cultures was formed. What connects...
Event time
17:30–18:00
- Location
- Trg Antuna, Ivana i Vladimira Mažuranića 14
The Moment
Workshop
Limited capacity – sign up required
The starting theme of the workshop led by Nikolina Manojlović Vračar is mindfulness, currently an omnipresent concept. The workshop leader’s aim is to emphasise that people have long been familiar with practices of being in the moment, one...
Event time
17:30–19:30
- Location
- Jezuitski trg 4
Secrets of the Sesvete Bunkers
Discursive programme
Discursive programme
Limited capacity – sign up required
A lecture based on many years of research by Damir Fofić and Ivo Pavičić into the Sesvete defensive belt will be held in situ – beside the heavy anti-tank bunker no. 8.
Event time
17:30–18:30
- Location
- Kelekova ulica 2
Paint the Wild
Workshop
Limited capacity – sign up required
Paint the Wild is a guided painting workshop inspired by the richness and diversity of nature. Through expert guidance and a relaxed creative atmosphere, participants explore motifs from the natural world – from animal species and plants...
Event time
18:00–20:00
- Location
- Demetrova ulica 1
Traditional Meditation at the Museum
Discursive programme
Limited capacity – sign up required
As part of the Zagreb Museum Weekend, the Croatian Natural History Museum presents a lecture on traditional meditation, conceived in the spirit of the Museum Wellbeing Reset initiative. Contemporary people live faster than ever, constantly...
Event time
18:00–19:00
- Location
- Demetrova ulica 1
True Stories, Great Novels
Guided exhibition tour
Cultural city walk
Limited capacity – sign up required
Stroll through the Museum while the Purgerica (a true old Zagreb lady), guide of the thematic tour True Stories, Great Novels, reveals to you true stories from Zagreb’s past that inspired famous literary hits such as Zagorka’s The Witch of...
Event time
18:00–19:00
- Location
- Opatička ulica 20
Retro Trump Card: Belote Tournament
Family fun
Limited capacity – sign up required
As part of the Retro Playroom, which you can enjoy throughout all four days of the Zagreb Museum Weekend, on Friday, 4 September we are organising a Belote Tournament, hosted by the actor and presenter Hrvoje Kečkeš. Do you have a good...
Event time
18:00–20:00
- Location
- Opatička ulica 20
The Magical World of Puppets
Workshop
Limited capacity – sign up required
After viewing the exhibition of the same name, participants will discuss how a puppet can become an artistic object and a bearer of a story. Inspired by Old Slavic mythology, Prigorje motifs and nature, participants will design their own...
Event time
18:00–20:00
- Location
- Trg Dragutina Domjanića 5
Novi Zagreb in a Not-So-Flat Way – a walk through Novi Zagreb
Cultural city walk
Cultural city walk
Limited capacity – sign up required
Novi Zagreb is the part of Zagreb that most of the city’s inhabitants perceive as exceptionally flat. The whole area of Novi Zagreb is an uninterrupted plain, with only the occasional elevation created by human hand (for example the Sava...
Event time
18:00–21:00
- Location
- Avenija Dubrovnik 17
Linocut workshop “Lino&Vino”
Workshop
Limited capacity – sign up required
Radionica linoreza „Lino&vino“ održava se uz izložbu „Pola trenutka života“ u kojoj se spajaju autorski radovi pulskog umjetnika i dizajnera Vjerana Juhasa s predmetima iz fundusa Muzeja za umjetnost i obrt. Radionica je prilika da se...
Event time
18:00–20:30
- Location
- Ilica 163a
Guided tour of the museum mine with miners’ poetry
Guided exhibition tour
Limited capacity – sign up required
A full-size model of a coal and metal mine is located in the underground spaces of the Nikola Tesla Technical Museum. The mine shaft, with a total length of more than three hundred metres and a maximum depth of six metres, offers visitors...
Event time
18:00–18:30
- Location
- Savska cesta 18
The Stars Above Us: Are We Alone in the Universe?
Discursive programme
Limited capacity – sign up required
These interesting and educational lectures on the universe, its origin and development bring astronomy closer to a wider audience through clear and inspiring scientific stories. The programme covers topics ranging from the Big Bang and the...
Event time
18:00–19:30
- Location
- Demetrova ulica 1
Extended Festival: Tin Dožić – Straight Line (sound performance)
Art installation
Extended Festival
“Straight Line” is an extended performance of electronic music in drone form. Drawing on the tradition of long musical forms by performers such as the Theatre of Eternal Music, Éliane Radigue and others, Straight Line will shape a...
Event time
All day
- Location
- Avenija Dubrovnik 17
Relaxing Under the Stars
MUV on site
Limited capacity – sign up required
A relaxing experience of observing constellations and planets, with narration by the planetarium guide and suitable background music. The programme takes place in the pleasant setting of the museum planetarium built in 1965, using the...
Event time
19:00–19:40
- Location
- Savska cesta 18
Exhibition opening “Joso Bužan”
Opening
Limited capacity – sign up required
The museum collections hold works that are unknown to the public, and comparing the holdings of different institutions makes it possible to provide better context and to share interesting stories about Joso Bužan and his time. The...
Event time
19:00–20:00
- Location
- Trg Antuna, Ivana i Vladimira Mažuranića 14
Exhibition opening “Patent Penkala”
Opening
The exhibition “Patent Penkala” presents to the public, for the first time in a comprehensive way, the life and work of this outstanding inventor, who spent his most productive years in Zagreb, where he realised most of his...
Event time
20:00–21:00
- Location
- Savska cesta 18
Museum Wellbeing Reset
MUV on site
Limited capacity – sign up required
Museum Wellbeing Reset in the atrium of the Croatian Natural History Museum is an experiential programme conceived as a space of slowing down, regeneration and return to inner balance. In a unique museum setting, participants go through a...
Event time
08:00–10:00
- Location
- Demetrova ulica 1
Zagreb, Before It Even Existed
Cultural city walk
Limited capacity – sign up required
There is truly nothing unusual about a morning walk through the centre of Zagreb. It is just as ordinary, on such an occasion, to run into a friend, a sweetheart or an acquaintance, a neighbour or a schoolmate. It is perhaps only slightly...
Event time
09:30–10:30
- Location
- Zrinjevac 19
The CreARTive Museum
Workshop
Limited capacity – sign up required
Art therapy groups in museums are conceived as experiential, creative encounters that connect the individual with cultural heritage, art, the city and the community, fostering mental health, personal growth and a sense of belonging....
Event time
10:00–11:30
- Location
- Trg Antuna, Ivana i Vladimira Mažuranića 14
Mijo Kišpatić – a Quiet Visionary
Exhibition
The Croatian Natural History Museum in Zagreb presents a unique exhibition dedicated to Mijo Kišpatić, one of the most important Croatian naturalists of the late 19th and early 20th century. In 2026 we mark the 175th anniversary of the...
Event time
All day
- Location
- Demetrova ulica 1
Croats on the Frozen Sea, 1872–1874
Exhibition
The exhibition tells the story of one of the most important polar expeditions of the 19th century – the Austro-Hungarian scientific Arctic expedition of 1872–1874. A particularly valuable part of this historical story is the fact...
Event time
All day
- Location
- Demetrova ulica 1
Once Upon a Time… Croatian Toy Factories in the 20th Century
Exhibition
The exhibition offers an overview of the development of the domestic toy industry, with special reference to the factories Biserka, UZOR, Jugoplastika, 25. maj – Labin and TIK-TIK Krapina, which during the second half of the 20th century...
Event time
All day
- Location
- Hebrangova ulica 5
Offline with Needle and Thread
Workshop
Limited capacity – sign up required
A workshop for relaxation, focus and a creative break. Through simple embroidery techniques inspired by 19th- and 20th-century schools, participants enter the rhythm of repetitive movements that calm the mind and focus attention....
Event time
10:00–10:45
- Location
- Hebrangova ulica 5
Current exhibitions of Zagreb City Museum
Exhibition
Alongside the permanent exhibition, during the Zagreb Museum Weekend visitors to the Museum can also see as many as four exhibitions: To Sljeme! Stories from Zagreb Mountain , Zagreb Post-Earthquake Archaeology, Beauty Has a Woman’s Name i...
Event time
All day
- Location
- Opatička ulica 20
Permanent Exhibition of the Zagreb City Museum
Exhibition
Step into a story that has been alive for centuries. The permanent exhibition of the Zagreb City Museum extends over more than 2,000 square metres and turns history into an experience that is not observed — but lived. From archaeological...
Event time
All day
- Location
- Opatička ulica 20
A Little School of Etiquette
Workshop
Limited capacity – sign up required
Good manners are always in fashion! At the workshop A Little School of Etiquette, discover through entertaining situations the rules of good conduct – from behaviour at the table, in the museum and in a restaurant to communication and...
Event time
10:00–11:00
- Location
- Opatička ulica 20
Retro Playroom – back to the games we all remember!
Family fun
Before swiping there were hopscotch squares, dice and cards! Go back to a time when the best technology was – a good game. Ludo, belote… The games that marked childhood are taking over the Museum foyer! Bring your family and friends, roll...
Event time
10:00–20:00
- Location
- Opatička ulica 20
Bringing the Puppet to Life
Workshop
Limited capacity – sign up required
Participants will explore how a puppet moves, how character is created and how movement and voice build a stage story. Through simple theatre exercises and improvisation, participants will bring to life the puppets made on the previous...
Event time
10:00–12:00
- Location
- Trg Dragutina Domjanića 5
Guided tour of the apartment of Vjenceslav Richter and Nada Kareš Richter
Guided exhibition tour
The single-storey villa at Vrhovec 38 was once the home of the architect Vjenceslav Richter and his wife, the actress Nada Kareš Richter, and today it houses the Richter Collection and an exhibition space for contemporary art. Its history...
Event time
10:00–20:00
- Location
- Vrhovec 38
Guided exhibition: “SintArt 20: Sara Salamon”
Guided exhibition tour
As part of the SintArt cycle, the Collection of Vjenceslav Richter and Nada Kareš Richter presents a solo exhibition by the artist Sara Salamon entitled Mise en abyme. Taking space as a system that “performs itself” as her starting point,...
Event time
10:00–20:00
- Location
- Vrhovec 38
SintArt 20: Sara Salamon
Exhibition
As part of the SintArt cycle, the Collection of Vjenceslav Richter and Nada Kareš Richter presents a solo exhibition by the artist Sara Salamon entitled Mise en abyme. Taking space as a system that “performs itself” as her starting point,...
Event time
All day
- Location
- Vrhovec 38
Visit to the apartment of Vjenceslav Richter and Nada Kareš Richter
Exhibition
The single-storey villa at Vrhovec 38 was once the home of the architect Vjenceslav Richter and his wife, the actress Nada Kareš Richter, and today it houses the Richter Collection and an exhibition space for contemporary art. Its history...
Event time
All day
- Location
- Vrhovec 38
ORGAN VIDA 14: Happy Spiraling
Exhibition
This year’s edition of Organ Vida, titled Happy Spiraling, seeks to find meaning in an everyday life oversaturated with images. We ask how contemporary visual culture reflects reality, but also how it actively produces it: how it shapes...
Event time
All day
- Location
- Avenija Dubrovnik 17
Željko Jerman: Death in Korkyra – From the MSU Collection
Exhibition
On the occasion of the twentieth anniversary of the death of Željko Jerman (Zagreb, 1949 – Korčula, 2006), the Museum of Contemporary Art (MSU), in collaboration with Grey Zone (Siva Zona), a space for contemporary and media art in...
Event time
All day
- Location
- Avenija Dubrovnik 17
Ongoing exhibition: The Collection as a Verb (Sad Songs of War; Comradeship; Futures; Flowers–Non-Flowers–Something Third) & Situations: From the Collection: Željko Jerman
Exhibition
The exhibition cycle “The Collection as a Verb” presents a new ongoing exhibition of the Museum of Contemporary Art which redefines the understanding of the museum and the social context in which it operates. The exhibitions are not a...
Event time
All day
- Location
- Avenija Dubrovnik 17
Extended Festival: Tomislav Čuveljak – Moving
Art installation
Art installation
“Moving” is an ambient video installation consisting of three video works. The video works shown are meditative in character and were created in collaboration between Josipa Bubaš and Tomislav Čuveljak for the performances “Re-immersion”,...
Event time
All day
- Location
- Avenija Dubrovnik 17
Extended Festival: Željka Klemenčić, The Infinite Pot
Art installation
The Infinite Pot is conceived as an all-day and two-day continuous cooking of various simple ingredients in one large pot. During the day the author will empty the pot – serving guests soup/stew from it – and constantly add new...
Event time
All day
- Location
- Avenija Dubrovnik 17
Installation opening “Sag mir wo die Blumen sind”
Art installation
In the courtyard of the Gvozdanović Palace, the Museum of Arts and Crafts is installing a floral and sound site-specific installation by Vanja Blumenšajn, an author whose work stands on the border between art and craft. In his practice,...
Event time
All day
- Location
- Visoka ulica 8
Half an Instant of a Life
Exhibition
The exhibition “Half an Instant of a Life” reflects the visual fascinations of the graphic designer and artist Vjeran Juhas, which are brought into relation with objects from the holdings of the Museum of Arts and Crafts. Through the media...
Event time
All day
- Location
- Ilica 163a
A Walk Through Bollé’s Zagreb
Cultural city walk
Limited capacity – sign up required
Through the walk, participants are introduced to Herman Bollé’s architectural projects and renovations in Zagreb, that is, to the historicist architecture that surrounds us every day. Special emphasis is placed on understanding the...
Event time
10:00; 12:00
- Location
- Trg Republike Hrvatske 10
Available in Croatian and English language
Permanent Exhibition of Folk Costumes
Exhibition
The permanent exhibition, located in the northern wing of the first floor, presents folk costumes from Croatia dating from the end of the 19th and the first half of the 20th century, arranged according to cultural regions: eastern, central...
Event time
All day
- Location
- Trg Antuna, Ivana i Vladimira Mažuranića 14
Travelers
Exhibition
The exhibition “Travelers” follows the journeys of people and objects from colonial times to the present day and examines the circumstances in which the Collection of Non-European Cultures was formed. In the introductory section we point...
Event time
All day
- Location
- Trg Antuna, Ivana i Vladimira Mažuranića 14
earth//soil
Exhibition
The exhibition examines the relationship of human beings towards the soil – for which the exhibition title uses the colloquial Croatian word for earth – and towards the Earth as a planet. In the introductory section the author’s intention...
Event time
All day
- Location
- Trg Antuna, Ivana i Vladimira Mažuranića 14
New Archaeology – An Exhibition by Andreja Hojnik Fišić and Nikola Rajić
Exhibition
The exhibition title New Archaeology is a deliberate linguistic and conceptual inversion. It does not denote the mere uncovering of antiquities, but a creative process in which two artists act like archaeologists of the contemporary age....
Event time
All day
- Location
- Zrinjevac 19
A Pause in the Lapidarium
MUV on site
A Pause in the Lapidarium is a project of the Archaeological Museum in Zagreb through which, on the occasion of the museum’s 180th anniversary, the Lapidarium is temporarily turned into a quiet, shaded and green oasis in the heart of the...
Event time
10:00–20:00
- Location
- Zrinjevac 19
A Foundation for the Future – The Klovićevi dvori Gallery Collection of Donated Artwork
Exhibition
The Klovićevi dvori Gallery Collection of Donated Artwork is the result of donations by artists or their heirs who, after exhibiting at the Klovićevi Dvori Gallery, generously donated their works to our institution. Over time an impressive...
Event time
All day
- Location
- Jezuitski trg 4
Joso Bužan
Exhibition
The museum collections hold works that are unknown to the public, and comparing the holdings of different institutions makes it possible to provide better context and to share interesting stories about Joso Bužan and his time. The...
Event time
All day
- Location
- Trg Antuna, Ivana i Vladimira Mažuranića 14
Patent Penkala
Exhibition
The exhibition “Patent Penkala” presents to the public, for the first time in a comprehensive way, the life and work of this outstanding inventor, who spent his most productive years in Zagreb, where he realised most of his...
Event time
All day
- Location
- Savska cesta 18
Perica or tenka gibanica: a gathering, a conversation and breakfast the Kajkavian way
MUV on site
Petrica? Or Perica? Those who know, know. And those who don’t will find out right here. As part of the Zagreb Museum Weekend we invite you to a gathering with the Kajkavian word, conversation, stories from Prigorje and, of course, tenka...
Event time
10:00–12:00
- Location
- Trg Dragutina Domjanića 5
Sag mir wo die Blumen sind
Art installation
In the courtyard of the Gvozdanović Palace, the Museum of Arts and Crafts is installing a floral and sound site-specific installation by Vanja Blumenšajn, an author whose work stands on the border between art and craft. In his practice,...
Event time
All day
- Location
- Visoka ulica 8
Permanent Exhibition of the Archaeological Museum in Zagreb
Exhibition
The permanent exhibition of the Archaeological Museum in Zagreb is conceived as a thematic and chronological cross-section of the Prehistoric, Ancient, Egyptian, Medieval, and Numismatic Collections. Among the many objects that bear...
Event time
All day
- Location
- Zrinjevac 19
The Dresden Diary of Anka Krizmanić
Exhibition
The exhibition “The Dresden Diary of Anka Krizmanić” is dedicated to the work of Anka Krizmanić and offers insight into her artistic practice, visual language, and place within Croatian Expressionism.
Event time
All day
- Location
- Opatička ulica 20
Secrets of the Museum Storeroom
Guided exhibition tour
Limited capacity – sign up required
Visitors will discover the secrets of the museum storeroom with expert guidance from curators and conservators, and will have a unique opportunity to peek into the otherwise hidden world of the museum and experience the “museum behind...
Event time
10:30; 11:30
- Location
- Kačićeva ulica 9/2
The Eye of the Eagle Owl
Workshop
Limited capacity – sign up required
Since the Klovićevi dvori Gallery Collection of Donated Artwork includes a painted wooden sculpture of an Eagle Owl by the self-taught sculptor Sofija Naletilić Penavuša, which will be on view at the exhibition A Foundation for the Future...
Event time
11:00–12:30
- Location
- Jezuitski trg 4
Exhibition Opening “Dragutin Domjanić, A Century and a Half”
Opening
Dragutin Domjanić (1875–1933) is one of the most important Croatian poets of the first half of the 20th century and one of the greatest poets writing in the Kajkavian dialect. His work strongly marked the cultural space of Prigorje, and...
Event time
11:00–11:15
- Location
- Trg Dragutina Domjanića 5
Extended Festival: Martin Hargreaves – Perhaps I Have No Time I Have No Time Perhaps
Art installation
Extended Festival
The performance is a six-hour lecture on theories of performativity. Borrowing Jacques Derrida’s insistence on the parasitism of performativity and working with the promising threats of Mladen Stilinović’s language, this lecture examines...
Event time
All day
- Location
- Avenija Dubrovnik 17
An Imaginary Place – Visualising a Safe Space
Workshop
Limited capacity – sign up required
The aim of the workshop is to connect with a feeling of (inner) safety, and it encourages the exploration of auditory, visual and olfactory senses as well as of emotional responses. Participants visualise a place where they feel safe and...
Event time
11:00–12:30
- Location
- Kačićeva ulica 9/2
Guided tours of the permanent exhibition
Guided exhibition tour
Limited capacity – sign up required
The permanent exhibition of the Archaeological Museum in Zagreb is conceived as a thematic and chronological cross-section of the Prehistoric, Classical, Egyptian, Medieval and Numismatic collections. Among the many objects testifying to...
Event time
11:00; 15:00
- Location
- Zrinjevac 19
The Stars Above Us: Solar Storms
Discursive programme
Limited capacity – sign up required
These interesting and educational lectures on the universe, its origin and development bring astronomy closer to a wider audience through clear and inspiring scientific stories. The programme covers topics ranging from the Big Bang and the...
Event time
11:00–12:30
- Location
- Demetrova ulica 1
Expert Guided Tour of the Museum Mine
Guided exhibition tour
Limited capacity – sign up required
Located in the underground premises of the Nikola Tesla Technical Museum is a life-size model of a coal and metal mine, with a total length of more than 300 metres and a maximum depth of six metres. The mine is an exceptionally valuable...
Event time
11:00; 15:00
- Location
- Savska cesta 18
15 Minutes on Anti-War Art
Guided exhibition tour
Limited capacity – sign up required
Instalacija Sag mir wo die Blumen sind by Vanja Blumenšajn provides the starting point for a 15- minute conversation about how art can become a clear response to war and violence. How does an artwork become a protest? Why do some artists...
Event time
11:00; 13:00; 15:00; 17:00; 19:00
- Location
- Visoka ulica 8
Available in Croatian and English language
Exhibition Opening “Dragutin Domjanić – Exegi monumentum”
Opening
How do you commemorate a poet who has already raised his own monument in words? The exhibition “Exegi monumentum” presents Milivoj Šegan’s proposal for a memorial to Dragutin Domjanić, conceived for Dragutin Domjanić Square in Sesvete. The...
Event time
11:15–11:30
- Location
- Trg Dragutina Domjanića 5
Exhibition opening “Gabrijela Šimić and Marijana Županić Benić: The Puppet – Where Myth Meets Reality”
Opening
In the Kurija Gallery of the Prigorje Museum, the artists Županić Benić and Šimić present the puppet as a distinctive artistic object. While Gabrijela Šimić models puppets in polymer clay imbued with Old Slavic mythology and Prigorje...
Event time
11:30–12:00
- Location
- Trg Dragutina Domjanića 5
Find the perfect shot – a family workshop
Workshop
Limited capacity – sign up required
On the first Saturday in September we learn about photography as a family – young and old together. Are you ready to find the perfect shot? At this family workshop we will find inspiration in the current MSU exhibitions, with special...
Event time
11:30–13:00
- Location
- Avenija Dubrovnik 17
Nikola Tesla show
Play
Limited capacity – sign up required
A demonstration of Tesla’s inventions with the active participation of the audience, held in the museum’s Nikola Tesla cabinet on faithful replicas of Tesla’s instruments and devices made according to Tesla’s original drawings and patent...
Event time
11:30; 15:30; 18:30
- Location
- Savska cesta 18
Available in Croatian and English language
Dragutin Domjanić, A Century and a Half
Exhibition
Dragutin Domjanić (1875–1933) is one of the most important Croatian poets of the first half of the 20th century and one of the greatest poets writing in the Kajkavian dialect. His work strongly marked the cultural space of Prigorje, and...
Event time
All day
- Location
- Trg Dragutina Domjanića 5
Dragutin Domjanić, exegi monumentum
Exhibition
How do you commemorate a poet who has already raised his own monument in words? The exhibition “Exegi monumentum” presents Milivoj Šegan’s proposal for a memorial to Dragutin Domjanić, conceived for Dragutin Domjanić Square in Sesvete. The...
Event time
All day
- Location
- Trg Dragutina Domjanića 5
Fractals – Draw Your Own (Uni)verse
Workshop
Limited capacity – sign up required
The fractal drawing workshops focus on relaxation, personal development and the encouragement of creativity through a conscious and intuitive process of creation. The drawings are made with the eyes closed, and by subsequently colouring...
Event time
12:00–13:30
- Location
- Trg Antuna, Ivana i Vladimira Mažuranića 14
EXPRESS TOURS: Top 5 +
Guided exhibition tour
Limited capacity – sign up required
For visitors who want a quick but memorable museum experience, the “Express Tours” offer a dynamic guided visit through the most interesting and most unusual museum content. The programme includes the “Top 5 exhibits” you simply must see,...
Event time
12:00; 14:00; 16:00; 18:00
- Location
- Demetrova ulica 1
Patch It Up and Heal!
Workshop
Limited capacity – sign up required
In the intimate and stimulating atmosphere of the museum, participants use the technique of doodling and remote associations to express on paper, through drawing techniques, the emotions that are currently overwhelming them (whether...
Event time
12:00–14:00
- Location
- Avenija Dubrovnik 17
Guess the Toy!
Family fun
Limited capacity – sign up required
Relax with a light and dynamic museum experience in which, through play, questions and joint participation, we discover the world of toys and the childhood of past generations. The quiz encourages curiosity, the exchange of experiences and...
Event time
12:00–12:45
- Location
- Hebrangova ulica 5
Exhibition opening “Dragutin Domjanić – Petrica Kerempuh and the Clever Donkey”
Opening
In 1920 Dragutin Domjanić wrote the marionette play “Petrica Kerempuh i spametni osel” (Petrica Kerempuh and the Clever Donkey), considered one of the beginnings of professional puppetry in Croatia. The exhibition presents rich documentary...
Event time
12:00–12:30
- Location
- Trg Dragutina Domjanića 5
Fly, Fly Away…
Workshop
Limited capacity – sign up required
A workshop on making a model of Penkala’s aeroplane. It includes watching a short animated film about Eduard Slavoljub Penkala and a tour of the exhibition “Penkala – The Versatile Inventor”. The workshop is intended for...
Event time
12:00–13:00
- Location
- Savska cesta 18
Expert Guided Tour of the Museum Planetarium
Guided exhibition tour
Limited capacity – sign up required
The Planetarium of the Nikola Tesla Technical Museum opened to the public on 18 May 1965. Its operation is based on a specially designed Zeiss projector, which projects around 5,000 stars and illustrates the movement of stars,...
Event time
12:00; 16:00
- Location
- Savska cesta 18
Curator-Led Tour of the Exhibition A Foundation for the Future – The Klovićevi dvori Gallery Collection of Donated Artwork
Guided exhibition tour
As part of its wide-ranging activities, the Klovićevi dvori Gallery is responsible for the care of both the collections in its own holdings and those entrusted to it for safekeeping, housing a total of seven collections. One of these is...
Event time
12:00–12:40
- Location
- Jezuitski trg 4
Dragutin Domjanić – Petrica Kerempuh and the Clever Donkey
Exhibition
In 1920 Dragutin Domjanić wrote the marionette play “Petrica Kerempuh i spametni osel” (Petrica Kerempuh and the Clever Donkey), considered one of the beginnings of professional puppetry in Croatia. The exhibition presents rich documentary...
Event time
All day
- Location
- Trg Dragutina Domjanića 5
At Jan and Petrica’s
Play
Limited capacity – sign up required
The multimedia event “At Jan and Petrica’s” takes place in a stage space evoking the garden of a wayside inn – a place of socialising, conversation and song. There Jan Halubjan and Petrica Kerempuh meet and address the audience, in the...
Event time
13:00–14:00
- Location
- Trg Dragutina Domjanića 5
Presentation of the publication of the 59th Zagreb Salon of Architecture and Urbanism “Dialogues / Monologues”
Discursive programme
We invite you to the presentation of the publication 59th Zagreb Salon of Architecture and Urbanism “Dialogues/Monologues”, which will take place at the Art Pavilion in Zagreb on Saturday, 5 September, starting at 1 p.m. The 59th Zagreb...
Event time
13:00–14:00
- Location
- Trg Kralja Tomislava 22
Curator-led tour of the exhibition Once Upon a Time… Croatian Toy Factories in the 20th Century
Guided exhibition tour
Limited capacity – sign up required
The exhibition offers an overview of the development of the domestic toy industry, with special reference to the factories Biserka, UZOR, Jugoplastika, 25. maj – Labin and TIK-TIK Krapina, which during the second half of the 20th century...
Event time
14:00–14:30
- Location
- Hebrangova ulica 5
Guided tour of the Paris Room of the Croatian School Museum
Guided exhibition tour
Limited capacity – sign up required
A guided tour of the Paris Room of the Croatian School Museum, which found temporary accommodation in the Museum of Contemporary Art in Zagreb after the museum was closed due to the damage suffered in the 2020 earthquakes. The Paris Room,...
Event time
14:15–14:30
- Location
- Avenija Dubrovnik 17
True Stories, Great Novels
Guided exhibition tour
Cultural city walk
Limited capacity – sign up required
Stroll through the Museum while the Purgerica (a true old Zagreb lady), guide of the thematic tour True Stories, Great Novels, reveals to you true stories from Zagreb’s past that inspired famous literary hits such as Zagorka’s The Witch of...
Event time
15:00; 17:00
- Location
- Opatička ulica 20
Little Jungle!
Workshop
Limited capacity – sign up required
Inspired by the exhibition earth//soil, this cheerful and relaxed workshop guides participants in creating their own little jungle in glass. Through the creative process of making a self-sustaining terrarium, participants will assemble...
Event time
16:00–17:30
- Location
- Trg Antuna, Ivana i Vladimira Mažuranića 14
Gradec in the Middle Ages
Cultural city walk
Limited capacity – sign up required
Our thematic guided tour Gradec in the Middle Ages, led by the Tavern Maid, takes you through the Upper Town, where every stone has its story and every square hides a secret from the Middle Ages. Experience the city through the eyes of its...
Event time
16:00; 18:00
- Location
- Opatička ulica 20
Extended Festival: Tender Motor
Play
Play
The performances of the Tender Motor collective start from choreovocality, where the voice functions as the primary choreographic and performative material. Tender Motor uses the voice both as a tool and as a site for exploring gender and...
Event time
16:00–19:00
- Location
- Avenija Dubrovnik 17
PaleoTech: Bone and Stone Technology
Workshop
PaleoTech is a demonstration of experimental archaeology that brings visitors closer to prehistoric stone and bone working technologies. Through the making of replicas of tools and jewellery, the presenter demonstrates techniques of flint...
Event time
16:00–19:00
- Location
- Zrinjevac 19
New Patrons for Sljeme – a proposal for an artistic intervention in the space of the former factory, a conversation with citizens
Discursive programme
The artist Sanja Bistričić Srića, the mediator Maša Štrbac and the Sljeme for All initiative, together with a group of citizens in the role of patrons, invite all those interested to the first presentation of a proposal for an artwork for...
Event time
16:00–17:00
- Location
- Senjska ulica 1
Impressions of the Face
Workshop
Limited capacity – sign up required
The Klovićevi dvori Gallery Collection of Donated Artwork also includes a portrait bust. It is a portrait of Emanuel Vidović, one of the key painters of Croatian modernism. The bust was made by the sculptor Vinko Fabris, a native of...
Event time
17:00–18:30
- Location
- Jezuitski trg 4
Paint the Wild
Workshop
Limited capacity – sign up required
Paint the Wild is a guided painting workshop inspired by the richness and diversity of nature. Through expert guidance and a relaxed creative atmosphere, participants explore motifs from the natural world – from animal species and plants...
Event time
17:00–19:00
- Location
- Demetrova ulica 1
Ocean with David Attenborough
Family fun
Limited capacity – sign up required
This spectacular natural history documentary with David Attenborough reveals the extraordinary richness and importance of the world’s oceans. Outstanding underwater footage shows fascinating marine ecosystems, but also the challenges they...
Event time
17:00–18:35
- Location
- Demetrova ulica 1
“Between Necessity and Leisure”: Commerce in New Zagreb
Cultural city walk
Limited capacity – sign up required
On this new walk through Novi Zagreb, we trace events, experiences, and stories connected with various forms of trade in the area. The occasion is the 70th anniversary of the opening of the first exhibition and fair at the Zagreb Fair...
Event time
17:00–19:00
- Location
- Avenija Dubrovnik 17
Guided exhibition: The Collection as a Verb (Sad Songs of War; Comradeship; Futures; Flowers–Non-Flowers–Something Third)
Guided exhibition tour
Limited capacity – sign up required
The exhibition cycle “The Collection as a Verb” presents a new ongoing exhibition of the Museum of Contemporary Art which redefines the understanding of the museum and the social context in which it operates. The exhibitions are not a...
Event time
18:00–19:00
- Location
- Avenija Dubrovnik 17
The Museum as a Safe Place: A conversation on wellbeing, creativity, experimentation and the right to make mistakes
Discursive programme
Limited capacity – sign up required
Museums are increasingly being recognized as spaces where art can contribute to mental health and wellbeing. This is also reflected in the concept of the “museum on prescription,” adopted in several countries, where doctors recommend...
Event time
18:00–20:00
- Location
- Ilica 163a
Guided tour of the museum mine with miners’ poetry
Guided exhibition tour
Limited capacity – sign up required
A full-size model of a coal and metal mine is located in the underground spaces of the Nikola Tesla Technical Museum. The mine shaft, with a total length of more than three hundred metres and a maximum depth of six metres, offers visitors...
Event time
18:00–18:30
- Location
- Savska cesta 18
Opening of the exhibition “Fotosofia 21”
Opening
We invite you to the opening of the exhibition Fotosofia 21 in the atrium of the Croatian Natural History Museum!
Event time
19:00–20:00
- Location
- Demetrova ulica 1
Guided exhibition “ORGAN VIDA 14: Happy Spiraling“
Guided exhibition tour
Limited capacity – sign up required
This year’s edition of Organ Vida, titled Happy Spiraling, seeks to find meaning in an everyday life oversaturated with images. We ask how contemporary visual culture reflects reality, but also how it actively produces it: how it shapes...
Event time
19:00–20:00
- Location
- Avenija Dubrovnik 17
Extended Festival: Marina Petković Liker – Let me hear you
The project Let me hear you is developing as an interdisciplinary theatre performance that explores spaces of communication beyond language and addresses the position of migrants and foreign workers in Zagreb. The aim is to create an...
Event time
19:00–23:00
- Location
- Avenija Dubrovnik 17
Relaxing Under the Stars
MUV on site
Limited capacity – sign up required
A relaxing experience of observing constellations and planets, with narration by the planetarium guide and suitable background music. The programme takes place in the pleasant setting of the museum planetarium built in 1965, using the...
Event time
19:00–19:40
- Location
- Savska cesta 18
Museum Wellbeing Reset
MUV on site
Limited capacity – sign up required
Museum Wellbeing Reset in the atrium of the Croatian Natural History Museum is an experiential programme conceived as a space of slowing down, regeneration and return to inner balance. In a unique museum setting, participants go through a...
Event time
08:00–10:00
- Location
- Demetrova ulica 1
Zagreb, Before It Even Existed
Cultural city walk
Limited capacity – sign up required
There is truly nothing unusual about a morning walk through the centre of Zagreb. It is just as ordinary, on such an occasion, to run into a friend, a sweetheart or an acquaintance, a neighbour or a schoolmate. It is perhaps only slightly...
Event time
09:30–10:30
- Location
- Zrinjevac 19
Discovering the City Through the Lens
Cultural city walk
Limited capacity – sign up required
The aim of the workshop is to learn how photography can help us slow down and consciously experience everyday life, while exploring the city from new, unexpected perspectives. Through the lens of a mobile phone or camera, participants will...
Event time
10:00–12:00
- Location
- Trg Antuna, Ivana i Vladimira Mažuranića 14
Mijo Kišpatić – a Quiet Visionary
Exhibition
The Croatian Natural History Museum in Zagreb presents a unique exhibition dedicated to Mijo Kišpatić, one of the most important Croatian naturalists of the late 19th and early 20th century. In 2026 we mark the 175th anniversary of the...
Event time
All day
- Location
- Demetrova ulica 1
Croats on the Frozen Sea, 1872–1874
Exhibition
The exhibition tells the story of one of the most important polar expeditions of the 19th century – the Austro-Hungarian scientific Arctic expedition of 1872–1874. A particularly valuable part of this historical story is the fact...
Event time
All day
- Location
- Demetrova ulica 1
Once Upon a Time… Croatian Toy Factories in the 20th Century
Exhibition
The exhibition offers an overview of the development of the domestic toy industry, with special reference to the factories Biserka, UZOR, Jugoplastika, 25. maj – Labin and TIK-TIK Krapina, which during the second half of the 20th century...
Event time
All day
- Location
- Hebrangova ulica 5
Current exhibitions of Zagreb City Museum
Exhibition
Alongside the permanent exhibition, during the Zagreb Museum Weekend visitors to the Museum can also see as many as four exhibitions: To Sljeme! Stories from Zagreb Mountain , Zagreb Post-Earthquake Archaeology, Beauty Has a Woman’s Name i...
Event time
All day
- Location
- Opatička ulica 20
Permanent Exhibition of the Zagreb City Museum
Exhibition
Step into a story that has been alive for centuries. The permanent exhibition of the Zagreb City Museum extends over more than 2,000 square metres and turns history into an experience that is not observed — but lived. From archaeological...
Event time
All day
- Location
- Opatička ulica 20
A Little School of Calligraphy
Workshop
Limited capacity – sign up required
Slow down, take a breath and let the letters tell the story. The workshop A Little School of Calligraphy takes you into a world where every letter becomes a small work of art. In the inspiring setting of the Museum, with expert guidance,...
Event time
10:00–13:00
- Location
- Opatička ulica 20
Retro Playroom – back to the games we all remember!
Family fun
Before swiping there were hopscotch squares, dice and cards! Go back to a time when the best technology was – a good game. Ludo, belote… The games that marked childhood are taking over the Museum foyer! Bring your family and friends, roll...
Event time
10:00–20:00
- Location
- Opatička ulica 20
Guided tour of the apartment of Vjenceslav Richter and Nada Kareš Richter
Guided exhibition tour
The single-storey villa at Vrhovec 38 was once the home of the architect Vjenceslav Richter and his wife, the actress Nada Kareš Richter, and today it houses the Richter Collection and an exhibition space for contemporary art. Its history...
Event time
10:00–20:00
- Location
- Vrhovec 38
Guided exhibition: “SintArt 20: Sara Salamon”
Guided exhibition tour
As part of the SintArt cycle, the Collection of Vjenceslav Richter and Nada Kareš Richter presents a solo exhibition by the artist Sara Salamon entitled Mise en abyme. Taking space as a system that “performs itself” as her starting point,...
Event time
10:00–20:00
- Location
- Vrhovec 38
SintArt 20: Sara Salamon
Exhibition
As part of the SintArt cycle, the Collection of Vjenceslav Richter and Nada Kareš Richter presents a solo exhibition by the artist Sara Salamon entitled Mise en abyme. Taking space as a system that “performs itself” as her starting point,...
Event time
All day
- Location
- Vrhovec 38
Visit to the apartment of Vjenceslav Richter and Nada Kareš Richter
Exhibition
The single-storey villa at Vrhovec 38 was once the home of the architect Vjenceslav Richter and his wife, the actress Nada Kareš Richter, and today it houses the Richter Collection and an exhibition space for contemporary art. Its history...
Event time
All day
- Location
- Vrhovec 38
ORGAN VIDA 14: Happy Spiraling
Exhibition
This year’s edition of Organ Vida, titled Happy Spiraling, seeks to find meaning in an everyday life oversaturated with images. We ask how contemporary visual culture reflects reality, but also how it actively produces it: how it shapes...
Event time
All day
- Location
- Avenija Dubrovnik 17
Željko Jerman: Death in Korkyra – From the MSU Collection
Exhibition
On the occasion of the twentieth anniversary of the death of Željko Jerman (Zagreb, 1949 – Korčula, 2006), the Museum of Contemporary Art (MSU), in collaboration with Grey Zone (Siva Zona), a space for contemporary and media art in...
Event time
All day
- Location
- Avenija Dubrovnik 17
Ongoing exhibition: The Collection as a Verb (Sad Songs of War; Comradeship; Futures; Flowers–Non-Flowers–Something Third) & Situations: From the Collection: Željko Jerman
Exhibition
The exhibition cycle “The Collection as a Verb” presents a new ongoing exhibition of the Museum of Contemporary Art which redefines the understanding of the museum and the social context in which it operates. The exhibitions are not a...
Event time
All day
- Location
- Avenija Dubrovnik 17
Extended Festival: Tena & Tena (durational performance)
Extended Festival
Art installation
Tena & Tena is a long-term multimedia art project that explores identity through play with the name Tena and examines the relationship between a person, a product and a place bearing the same name. At the centre of the project is the...
Event time
All day
- Location
- Avenija Dubrovnik 17
Installation opening “Sag mir wo die Blumen sind”
Art installation
In the courtyard of the Gvozdanović Palace, the Museum of Arts and Crafts is installing a floral and sound site-specific installation by Vanja Blumenšajn, an author whose work stands on the border between art and craft. In his practice,...
Event time
All day
- Location
- Visoka ulica 8
Half an Instant of a Life
Exhibition
The exhibition “Half an Instant of a Life” reflects the visual fascinations of the graphic designer and artist Vjeran Juhas, which are brought into relation with objects from the holdings of the Museum of Arts and Crafts. Through the media...
Event time
All day
- Location
- Ilica 163a
We Are the Flowers!
Workshop
Limited capacity – sign up required
Alongside the floral and sound installation Sag Mir Wo Die Blumen Sind? by the Blumen studio, a herbarium-making workshop will be held, led by its author Vanja Blumenšajn. In the décor of the Gvozdanović Palace there is hardly an object...
Event time
10:00; 10:30; 11:00; 11:30; 12:00; 12:30; 13:00; 13:30
- Location
- Visoka ulica 8
Penkala’s Zagreb
Cultural city walk
Cultural city walk
Limited capacity – sign up required
A walk through the Zagreb locations connected with Penkala’s life and work, led by the curatorial team of the exhibition on Penkala. At the same time, it is a walk through the history of Zagreb that will evoke for participants the...
Event time
10:00–11:00
- Location
- Ulica kneza Branimira 43
I’m Writing to You…
Workshop
Limited capacity – sign up required
A workshop on writing handwritten messages, the forerunners of SMS and WhatsApp. The messages will be written with mechanical pencils on postcards with motifs relating to Penkala. The workshop is intended for children of primary school...
Event time
10:00–11:00
- Location
- Savska cesta 18
The Laboratory of Attention
MUV on site
Limited capacity – sign up required
The park in front of the Art Pavilion becomes a temporary space for slowing down, for reading space differently, for establishing relations and for imagining different ways of being together. Through a series of guided, multisensory...
Event time
10:00–12:00
- Location
- Trg Kralja Tomislava 22
Permanent Exhibition of Folk Costumes
Exhibition
The permanent exhibition, located in the northern wing of the first floor, presents folk costumes from Croatia dating from the end of the 19th and the first half of the 20th century, arranged according to cultural regions: eastern, central...
Event time
All day
- Location
- Trg Antuna, Ivana i Vladimira Mažuranića 14
Travelers
Exhibition
The exhibition “Travelers” follows the journeys of people and objects from colonial times to the present day and examines the circumstances in which the Collection of Non-European Cultures was formed. In the introductory section we point...
Event time
All day
- Location
- Trg Antuna, Ivana i Vladimira Mažuranića 14
earth//soil
Exhibition
The exhibition examines the relationship of human beings towards the soil – for which the exhibition title uses the colloquial Croatian word for earth – and towards the Earth as a planet. In the introductory section the author’s intention...
Event time
All day
- Location
- Trg Antuna, Ivana i Vladimira Mažuranića 14
New Archaeology – An Exhibition by Andreja Hojnik Fišić and Nikola Rajić
Exhibition
The exhibition title New Archaeology is a deliberate linguistic and conceptual inversion. It does not denote the mere uncovering of antiquities, but a creative process in which two artists act like archaeologists of the contemporary age....
Event time
All day
- Location
- Zrinjevac 19
A Pause in the Lapidarium
MUV on site
A Pause in the Lapidarium is a project of the Archaeological Museum in Zagreb through which, on the occasion of the museum’s 180th anniversary, the Lapidarium is temporarily turned into a quiet, shaded and green oasis in the heart of the...
Event time
10:00–20:00
- Location
- Zrinjevac 19
A Foundation for the Future – The Klovićevi dvori Gallery Collection of Donated Artwork
Exhibition
The Klovićevi dvori Gallery Collection of Donated Artwork is the result of donations by artists or their heirs who, after exhibiting at the Klovićevi Dvori Gallery, generously donated their works to our institution. Over time an impressive...
Event time
All day
- Location
- Jezuitski trg 4
Joso Bužan
Exhibition
The museum collections hold works that are unknown to the public, and comparing the holdings of different institutions makes it possible to provide better context and to share interesting stories about Joso Bužan and his time. The...
Event time
All day
- Location
- Trg Antuna, Ivana i Vladimira Mažuranića 14
Gabrijela Šimić and Marijana Županić Benić: The Puppet – Where Myth Meets Reality
Exhibition
In the Kurija Gallery of the Prigorje Museum, the artists Županić Benić and Šimić present the puppet as a distinctive artistic object. While Gabrijela Šimić models puppets in polymer clay imbued with Old Slavic mythology and Prigorje...
Event time
All day
- Location
- Trg Dragutina Domjanića 5
Patent Penkala
Exhibition
The exhibition “Patent Penkala” presents to the public, for the first time in a comprehensive way, the life and work of this outstanding inventor, who spent his most productive years in Zagreb, where he realised most of his...
Event time
All day
- Location
- Savska cesta 18
Sag mir wo die Blumen sind
Art installation
In the courtyard of the Gvozdanović Palace, the Museum of Arts and Crafts is installing a floral and sound site-specific installation by Vanja Blumenšajn, an author whose work stands on the border between art and craft. In his practice,...
Event time
All day
- Location
- Visoka ulica 8
Fotosofia 21
Exhibition
We invite you to the the exhibition Fotosofia 21 in the atrium of the Croatian Natural History Museum!
Event time
All day
- Location
- Demetrova ulica 1
Permanent Exhibition of the Archaeological Museum in Zagreb
Exhibition
The permanent exhibition of the Archaeological Museum in Zagreb is conceived as a thematic and chronological cross-section of the Prehistoric, Ancient, Egyptian, Medieval, and Numismatic Collections. Among the many objects that bear...
Event time
All day
- Location
- Zrinjevac 19
The Dresden Diary of Anka Krizmanić
Exhibition
The exhibition “The Dresden Diary of Anka Krizmanić” is dedicated to the work of Anka Krizmanić and offers insight into her artistic practice, visual language, and place within Croatian Expressionism.
Event time
All day
- Location
- Opatička ulica 20
The Body In Presence
Workshop
Limited capacity – sign up required
The workshop The Body in Presence, led by Assist. Prof. Sanela Janković, combines the principles of dance movement therapy and mindfulness through movement and the sensory experience of the body as a starting point for becoming aware of...
Event time
11:00–13:00
- Location
- Jezuitski trg 4
Guided tour of the exhibition “Half an Instant of a Life
Guided exhibition tour
Limited capacity – sign up required
The exhibition “Half an Instant of a Life” reflects the visual fascinations of the graphic designer and artist Vjeran Juhas, which are brought into relation with objects from the holdings of the Museum of Arts and Crafts. Through the media...
Event time
11:00–11:45
- Location
- Ilica 163a
Guided tour of the Art Pavilion
Guided exhibition tour
Limited capacity – sign up required
The guided tour is intended for all visitors who wish to become acquainted with the rich history of the Art Pavilion in Zagreb – the first purpose-built exhibition building in Croatia and one of the most important monuments of Croatian...
Event time
11:00–12:00
- Location
- Trg Kralja Tomislava 22
Guided tours of the permanent exhibition
Guided exhibition tour
Limited capacity – sign up required
The permanent exhibition of the Archaeological Museum in Zagreb is conceived as a thematic and chronological cross-section of the Prehistoric, Classical, Egyptian, Medieval and Numismatic collections. Among the many objects testifying to...
Event time
11:00; 15:00
- Location
- Zrinjevac 19
Expert Guided Tour of the Museum Mine
Guided exhibition tour
Limited capacity – sign up required
Located in the underground premises of the Nikola Tesla Technical Museum is a life-size model of a coal and metal mine, with a total length of more than 300 metres and a maximum depth of six metres. The mine is an exceptionally valuable...
Event time
11:00; 15:00
- Location
- Savska cesta 18
15 Minutes on Anti-War Art
Guided exhibition tour
Limited capacity – sign up required
Instalacija Sag mir wo die Blumen sind by Vanja Blumenšajn provides the starting point for a 15- minute conversation about how art can become a clear response to war and violence. How does an artwork become a protest? Why do some artists...
Event time
11:00; 13:00; 15:00; 17:00; 19:00
- Location
- Visoka ulica 8
Available in Croatian and English language
Richter for Children – The Shape of Architecture
Workshop
Limited capacity – sign up required
The educational picture book RICHTER FOR CHILDREN – THE SHAPE OF ARCHITECTURE – SCULPTURE by Danijel Srdarev is the third in a series of projects presented on the ARCHITECTURE FOR CHILDREN platform. The publication was designed to bring...
Event time
11:30–13:00
- Location
- Avenija Dubrovnik 17
Nikola Tesla show
Play
Limited capacity – sign up required
A demonstration of Tesla’s inventions with the active participation of the audience, held in the museum’s Nikola Tesla cabinet on faithful replicas of Tesla’s instruments and devices made according to Tesla’s original drawings and patent...
Event time
11:30; 15:30; 18:30
- Location
- Savska cesta 18
Available in Croatian and English language
Guided tour of the permanent exhibition of folk costumes
Guided exhibition tour
Limited capacity – sign up required
Take a look into the rich tradition of Croatian cultural heritage through an outstanding collection of folk costumes, textile craftsmanship and objects of everyday life from the end of the 19th and the first half of the 20th century. You...
Event time
12:00–12:30
- Location
- Trg Antuna, Ivana i Vladimira Mažuranića 14
Finding Nemo
Family fun
Limited capacity – sign up required
This much-loved Pixar animated adventure takes audiences into the vivid world of the ocean through the story of Marlin, a clownfish who sets out on a great journey to find his son Nemo. Encounters with coral reefs, sea turtles, sharks and...
Event time
12:00–13:40
- Location
- Demetrova ulica 1
EXPRESS TOURS: Top 5 +
Guided exhibition tour
Limited capacity – sign up required
For visitors who want a quick but memorable museum experience, the “Express Tours” offer a dynamic guided visit through the most interesting and most unusual museum content. The programme includes the “Top 5 exhibits” you simply must see,...
Event time
12:00; 14:00; 16:00; 18:00
- Location
- Demetrova ulica 1
Curator-led tour of the exhibition Once Upon a Time… Croatian Toy Factories in the 20th Century
Guided exhibition tour
Limited capacity – sign up required
The exhibition offers an overview of the development of the domestic toy industry, with special reference to the factories Biserka, UZOR, Jugoplastika, 25. maj – Labin and TIK-TIK Krapina, which during the second half of the 20th century...
Event time
12:00–12:30
- Location
- Hebrangova ulica 5
Expert Guided Tour of the Museum Planetarium
Guided exhibition tour
Limited capacity – sign up required
The Planetarium of the Nikola Tesla Technical Museum opened to the public on 18 May 1965. Its operation is based on a specially designed Zeiss projector, which projects around 5,000 stars and illustrates the movement of stars,...
Event time
12:00; 16:00
- Location
- Savska cesta 18
Extended Festival: Workshop “The Extended Language of the Body”
Workshop
Limited capacity – sign up required
“The Extended Language of the Body” is a long-term research project by the artist, performer and educator Josipa Bubaš. Through the presentation of the project, interested participants will have the opportunity to gain insight into the...
Event time
13:00–15:00
- Location
- Avenija Dubrovnik 17
Gradec in the Middle Ages
Cultural city walk
Limited capacity – sign up required
Our thematic guided tour Gradec in the Middle Ages, led by the Tavern Maid, takes you through the Upper Town, where every stone has its story and every square hides a secret from the Middle Ages. Experience the city through the eyes of its...
Event time
14:00; 15:00
- Location
- Opatička ulica 20
Guided tour of the exhibition “Patent Penkala”
Guided exhibition tour
Limited capacity – sign up required
Guided tour of the exhibition “Patent Penkala”, which for the first time presents to the public, in a comprehensive way, the life and work of this outstanding inventor, who spent his most productive years in Zagreb, where he...
Event time
15:00; 17:00
- Location
- Savska cesta 18
Available in Croatian and English language
Extended Festival: Research presentation “The Extended Language of the Body”
Discursive programme
“The Extended Language of the Body” is a multi-year research project by artist, performer and educator Josipa Bubaš, which explores the relationships between sensation, movement, thought, language and environment. Through the...
Event time
15:15–17:00
- Location
- Avenija Dubrovnik 17
The Rhythm of Presence
Workshop
Limited capacity – sign up required
This workshop on playing the West African djembe drum focuses on rhythm as a tool for developing presence and inner balance. The repetition of rhythmic patterns encourages relaxation, focus and connection with oneself and with the group....
Event time
16:00–17:00
- Location
- Trg Antuna, Ivana i Vladimira Mažuranića 14
True Stories, Great Novels
Guided exhibition tour
Cultural city walk
Limited capacity – sign up required
Stroll through the Museum while the Purgerica (a true old Zagreb lady), guide of the thematic tour True Stories, Great Novels, reveals to you true stories from Zagreb’s past that inspired famous literary hits such as Zagorka’s The Witch of...
Event time
16:00; 17:00
- Location
- Opatička ulica 20
Guided exhibition: The Collection as a Verb (Sad Songs of War; Comradeship; Futures; Flowers–Non-Flowers–Something Third)
Guided exhibition tour
Limited capacity – sign up required
The exhibition cycle “The Collection as a Verb” presents a new ongoing exhibition of the Museum of Contemporary Art which redefines the understanding of the museum and the social context in which it operates. The exhibitions are not a...
Event time
17:00–18:00
- Location
- Avenija Dubrovnik 17
Living Pictures – mini edition: Ten Stories, One Zagreb
Play
The history of Zagreb comes alive before your eyes! A special edition of Living Pictures, the unique costumed pre-carnival event that the Zagreb City Museum has been organising for more than a quarter of a century, brings historical...
Event time
18:00–20:00
- Location
- Opatička ulica 20
Guided exhibition “ORGAN VIDA 14: Happy Spiraling“
Guided exhibition tour
Limited capacity – sign up required
This year’s edition of Organ Vida, titled Happy Spiraling, seeks to find meaning in an everyday life oversaturated with images. We ask how contemporary visual culture reflects reality, but also how it actively produces it: how it shapes...
Event time
18:00–19:00
- Location
- Avenija Dubrovnik 17
Art in Public Space – a walk through the centre of Zagreb
Cultural city walk
Limited capacity – sign up required
The tour “Art in Public Space” tells, through public sculpture and contemporary artistic interventions in the very centre of Zagreb, the story of the formative period of contemporary art and of new, conceptual artistic practices, and...
Event time
18:00–20:00
- Location
- Avenija Dubrovnik 17
Guided tour of the museum mine with miners’ poetry
Guided exhibition tour
Limited capacity – sign up required
A full-size model of a coal and metal mine is located in the underground spaces of the Nikola Tesla Technical Museum. The mine shaft, with a total length of more than three hundred metres and a maximum depth of six metres, offers visitors...
Event time
18:00–18:30
- Location
- Savska cesta 18
Atrium live: Živ, živ, živ
Play
Limited capacity – sign up required
Atrium Live is a programme cycle in which guest theatre companies perform in the atrium of the Croatian Natural History Museum, turning it into a living stage platform open to different theatrical poetics and performance approaches. The...
Event time
18:00–19:00
- Location
- Demetrova ulica 1
Relaxing Under the Stars
MUV on site
Limited capacity – sign up required
A relaxing experience of observing constellations and planets, with narration by the planetarium guide and suitable background music. The programme takes place in the pleasant setting of the museum planetarium built in 1965, using the...
Event time
19:00–19:40
- Location
- Savska cesta 18
Closing of MUV 2026
MUV on site
This year’s Zagreb Museum Weekend comes to a close on Sunday, September 6, 2026, with a music programme in the courtyard of the Zagreb City Museum, starting at 8:00 PM. The MUV closing event will feature DJ Glazbena kuhinja and the band...
Event time
20:00–00:00
- Location
- Opatička ulica 20
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