WELCOME SUMMER – “Doing the Right Thing”

📅 June 12 at 8:00 PM📍 Atrium of the Natural History Museum The Natural History Museum and the Cultural Center for Polyphonic Singing Vox Artis invite you to the concert “Doing the Right Thing,” this year’s edition of the Welcome Summer concert series. This year’s concert is dedicated to the work of Zlatan Stipišić Gibonni, […]

Scientific paper by staff of the Croatian Natural History Museum published in an international journal

Staff members of the Croatian Natural History Museum, Marko Lukić, Denis Bućan, and Irena Grbac, have published a scientific paper titled “Comparative evaluation of sealants for exhibition glass jars in wet natural history collections: application and protocol refinement” in the international journal Natural History Collections and Museomics. The paper presents the results of research conducted […]

Final Conference of the UNDERSEA Project in Rimini

Organized by Fondazione Cetacea, the project partner meeting and the final conference of the UNDerwatER Soundscape bEyond AIS (UNDERSEA) project were held on 4 and 5 June 2026 in Rimini (Italy). The project is funded under the Interreg Italy–Croatia 2021–2027 programme. On 4 June, a project partners’ meeting was held, during which the activities implemented […]

Visit to the Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Trieste

The Director of the Hrvatski prirodoslovni muzej, Prof. Dr. Sc. Tatjana Vlahović, and Dr. Sc. Martina Šašić Kljajo, Head of the Zoology Department at the HPM, paid a working visit to the Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Trieste. They met with the museum’s Director, Ms. Patrizia Fasolato, and her team for a highly productive […]

Film “Lubanja C” selected for an international festival

5 March 2026 We are proud to share exciting news! 🎉 The short documentary film “Lubanja C – World Paleoanthropological Heritage”, produced by the Hrvatski prirodoslovni muzej and created in collaboration with the production company 4Film, has been officially selected for the International Children’s Science Nature & Wildlife Film Festival in India. Children’s Science Nature […]

Researchers from the Blue World Institute and the Croatian Natural History Museum Tag the First Bottlenose Dolphin with a Satellite Transmitter in the Adriatic Sea

Bottlenose Dolphin Vinko Tagged with a Satellite Transmitter in the Adriatic For the first time in the Adriatic Sea, researchers from the Blue World Institute and the Croatian Natural History Museum have tagged a bottlenose dolphin with a satellite transmitter. On June 15, 2025, a well-known male dolphin from the Lošinj archipelago, Vinko, was tagged […]

The Sun Is the Source of Life

As part of the 13th Science Festival, the workshop The Sun Is the Source of Life will be held on 22 April from 12 noon to 1 p.m. at the Technical Museum. The workshop focuses on the topic of the development of life on Earth. Through an interactive approach, including the screening of a short […]

Museum Night 2015

During Museum Night, visitors were able to view the permanent mineralogical-petrographic and zoological displays free of charge, as well as the exhibitions: Andreas Vesalius (1514 – 1564) – Revealing the Human Body in the Renaissance, Metamorphosis – Dream of a Greedy Caterpillar, a Story about Butterflies, and Through Zagreb Streets… Zagreb in Stone. Visitors were […]