Dear online friends of the museum, Carnival time is almost here. This year everything is different, so our NATURFAŠNIK is a little different too. This year, YOU are creating Naturfašnik! We invite you to make your masks at home, dress up, take photos and send them to us. Through your photographs, you will take part […]
International Museum Day is an opportunity to remember the beginnings of the Museum on Croatian soil. The first idea of establishing a National Museum emerged 185 years ago. Back in 1836, the Croatian Parliament considered Ljudevit Gaj’s proposal to establish a learned society from which a Monoclinic crystal system 16-06-2021 16-06-2021 The monoclinic crystal system […]
International Museum Day is an opportunity to remember the beginnings of the Museum on Croatian soil. The first idea of establishing a National Museum emerged 185 years ago. Back in 1836, the Croatian Parliament considered Ljudevit Gaj’s proposal to establish a learned society from which a large municipal library and national Museum would be created. […]
What are oxide and hydroxide minerals, and what are their properties? Oxide minerals are compounds of metals or metalloids with oxygen, while hydroxide minerals contain the OH– group. Oxide minerals are mostly characterized by relatively high hardness and density, and they are resistant to weathering. Unlike oxides, hydroxides are softer and have lower hardness. What […]
Dear nature lovers, the program From the Museum into Nature continues on Saturday, 29 May, with an educational excursion. The central theme of the excursion is the karst phenomena of the Horvat’s Steps area: springs, dolines, karren, caves and pits. We will also encounter metamorphic rocks of the central part of Medvednica, green schists, as […]
Dear nature lovers, the program From the Museum into Nature begins on 15 May with the educational excursion “Karst Phenomena of Western Medvednica”. We hope that excursions will be held at least once a month, and you will be regularly informed about them around 10 days before each excursion date. The number of excursions and […]
Anniversary of the Zagreb earthquake – an opportunity to look into the past A look into the past What Kišpatić wrote about earthquakes back in 1880 On this day one year ago, we were struck by a devastating earthquake. The memory of that day is an opportunity to look into the past and see what […]
Science Festival – presentation of the LIFE EUROTURTLES project Joint action to improve the status and conservation of sea turtle populations in the European Union Venue: Nikola Tesla Technical Museum, Savska cesta 18 An ecological, educational and creative workshop about sea turtles and their adventures on their journey through our Adriatic Sea. Through several activities, […]
22 April – Earth Day is an opportunity to reflect on Earth’s position in the Solar System and to compare some of its features with those of neighboring planets. This is especially important because, in recent times, the idea of organizing conditions for human life on Mars has been mentioned increasingly often. This idea has […]
The authors of the project ZAGREB BEFORE IT EVEN EXISTED – BEFORE 1094, Zoran Gregl, Nenad Jandrić, Željko Kovačić and Ozren Domiter, in cooperation with the Archaeological Museum in Zagreb and the Croatian Natural History Museum, are pleased to invite you to the unveiling of a copy of a Bronze Age hoard found in 1949 […]