APPLICATIONS FULL 3 and 4 October 2020, Saturday and Sunday Educational excursion: Paklenica National Park Approximate excursion plan: Saturday, 3 October 2020 10:00 – gathering in Starigrad at the Paklenica National Park Administration, transport by private cars 10:00 – 11:00 – introductory remarks and drive by car along the mountain road to Veliko Rujno 11:00 […]
Two species of sea turtles permanently inhabit the Mediterranean Sea – the loggerhead turtle (Caretta caretta) and the green turtle (Chelonia mydas). The loggerhead turtle is particularly numerous in the northern Adriatic. Since sea turtles are globally endangered species, the Croatian Natural History Museum, the Blue World Institute from Croatia and seven partners from five […]
Dear nature lovers, On the occasion of European Mobility Week and the International Year of Caves and Karst, the Croatian Natural History Museum is organising educational hiking excursions to the karst areas of Medvednica from 16 to 22 September 2021. All excursions are reached and left by regular city public transport. The excursions are intended […]
This year, we are marking World Sea Turtle Day together with the Zagreb kindergarten “Malešnica”. The project “Sea Turtles” was organised in cooperation with the children from the “Sovice” group, with whom educators Đana Harbaš Bikić and Martina Hribar spent three weeks carrying out various activities to help the children get to know sea turtles […]
The Ethnographic Museum and the Croatian Natural History Museum invite you to the Expert panel on the implementation of museum investments with the help of ITU mechanisms, which will be held at the Ethnographic Museum on 23 November 2021, from 12:00 to 13:00. The Ministry of Regional Development and EU Funds, with the support of […]
As part of European Mobility Week 2021, from 16 to 22 September, the role of the permanent exhibition of the currently closed Museum will be taken over by the streets of the city of Zagreb. With the help of instructions and maps, you need to find animal sculptures and “snap” a selfie with them! In […]
19:00 Marin Šoufek, long-time curator of the Mineralogical and Petrographic Department, will give the lecture Electron Microscopy in the Function of the New Natural History Museum. 19:30 Museum advisor Damir Lacković and curator Petar Crnčan will give a lecture on the museum’s long-standing programme From the Museum into Nature. 20:00 Culture of Donation by Petar […]
Our colleague Jakov Radovčić, a long-time curator and museum advisor in the Geological and Palaeontological Department, passed away at the age of 76. During his long and dedicated museum career, he was the initiator of or collaborator on numerous museological and scientific projects. He was the author of the first programme concept for the work […]
Our dear colleague and friend, museum advisor, Mr. Sc. Darko Rukavina, has passed away. The news caught us all by surprise, shocked us and saddened us… I believe Darko Rukavina needs no special introduction. A geologist and palaeontologist by education, he graduated from the Faculty of Science, where he also earned the degree of Master […]
Zagreb, 31 March 2021 – Today, the project “Heritage Guardian as a Catalyst for Development, Research and Learning – the new Croatian Natural History Museum”, worth more than 69 million kuna, was presented at the Klovićevi dvori Gallery. Upon its completion at the end of 2023, the project will enable the complete reconstruction and extension […]