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 […]
The Brod-Posavina police presented a valuable seizure of fossil remains, approximately 15 million years old, confiscated from a 46-year-old smuggler at the border with Bosnia and Herzegovina, in a car with Slovenian license plates. The smuggler attempted to enter Croatia through the Stara Gradiška border crossing on 17 April in the evening hours. “After suspicion […]
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 […]
Amadeo Palace in the Upper Town, where the Croatian Natural History Museum is located, was severely damaged in last year’s earthquakes, and the storage conditions became inadequate for preserving exceptionally valuable and rich natural history and cultural heritage. The final phase of evacuating the material to a new location is currently underway, while the building […]
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 […]
Our museum staff members Petra Šparica, Branimir Ivić and Martin Glavinić, in cooperation with colleagues from the Archaeological Museum in Zagreb — Zorica Babić, Porin Rezniček Ščukanec and Maja Šesnić — won first place at the MUSEAR hackathon workshop. Following hackathons held by the partners of the MUSEAR project, on 12 and 13 December 2022 […]
The great white shark (Carcharodon carcharias), one of the best-known exhibits of the Croatian Natural History Museum in Zagreb, which is currently undergoing reconstruction, was moved on Tuesday to a safe location on the premises of the Zagreb Fair. “The Museum is currently undergoing the largest reconstruction in its history, and moving large exhibits is […]
As a result of many years of cooperation between the Croatian Natural History Museum and Croatian Post, on 20 October 2022 the seventh commemorative postal block with two stamps from the “Minerals and Rocks” series was released into circulation. This time, the postal block features motifs of pyrite from Brušane in Lika and loess from […]
The Croatian Natural History Museum is once again closed for this Museum Night. The collections have been moved to modern storage facilities, and the museum building has become a construction site. The European project of the new natural history museum will bring a completely renovated museum by the end of 2023. In the meantime, the […]