As an expanded version of the virtual exhibition “Teachers in Zagreb’s Street Names”, the Croatian School Museum presents twenty exhibition panels in Zrinjevac Park highlighting the teachers after whom Zagreb’s streets are named. The exhibition underscores the important role of the teaching profession in the modernization of both society and the city of Zagreb.
The administrative area of the City of Zagreb today includes approximately 5,500 streets and other named public spaces, with the city itself accounting for around 4,000. Of these, about 1,100 streets and squares are named after prominent individuals. Ivan Filipović Street in Lašćina was the first Zagreb street named after a teacher, a name it has borne since 1909.
Today, there are about twenty streets in the city named after notable teachers—including two based on fictional female characters. The exhibition introduces one of these educators, who was also the first curator in both Zagreb and Croatia. It also proposes that a street be named in her honour, which would make it the 77th Zagreb street named after a woman, in contrast to over 1,000 streets named after men.
- 5/9/2025, Friday / 18:30–23:59
- 6/9/2025, Saturday / 00:00–23:59
- 7/9/2025, Sunday / 00:00–23:59
