From 17 to 19 June 2022, MUZZA Science Week will be held for the first time in the HALA venue, at Heinzelova 96A. We are participating with an interesting program: Exhibition Superorganism Superorganism workshops DNA Detective workshops Meteorite presentation, in cooperation with Dr. Lovro Palaversa SUPERORGANISM – the life forces of social insects Dr. Iva […]
“Croatian Book Month” is the traditional and largest event in Croatia dedicated to books, bookselling and librarianship. From 15 October to 15 November, numerous programs are held in many Croatian libraries with the aim of bringing books closer to end users. Our Museum is also part of this event. At the Children and Youth Department […]
#mineralwednesday Little School of Mineralogy – 13 Interesting facts about nitrates and the sediment called caliche Did you know that natural nitrate deposits were very important in the past? Nitrates are essential for two human activities – agriculture and warfare. If we enrich soil with a mixture of nitrates, potassium and phosphates, plants grow much […]
9 July 2025Student Centre Dubrovnik Dubrovnik, 9 July 2025 – A two-day expert conference and international workshop within the UNDERSEA project (ITHR0200399 – CUP B73C24000160003), implemented under the Interreg Italy–Croatia programme, has begun at the Student Centre Dubrovnik. The project brings together eight partners from Croatia and Italy, including researchers from the Croatian Natural History […]
The largest exhibit of the Croatian Natural History Museum has been moved. The basking shark, Cetorhinus maximus, caught in the Adriatic Sea back in 1934, has been moved to a safe location at the Zagreb Fair, where it will remain until the completion of the museum renovation, co-financed by the European Union through the European […]
Today, the 1st International Geodiversity Day is being celebrated around the world. It was proclaimed by UNESCO in 2021 at its 41st General Conference. In cooperation with the Croatian Geological Survey and the Croatian Geological Society, the Croatian Natural History Museum is joining the celebration of this day with a volunteer clean-up action at a […]
Senior curator Assoc. Prof. Dr. Vlatka Mičetić Stanković, in co-authorship with her colleague Lea Ružanović, mag. oecol., published a paper on the beetles of our Museum as sources of valuable information in the study of the urbanization of the City of Zagreb. The paper was published in the high-impact journal Diversity. Natural history museum collections […]
A fascinating video of a group of whales, recently published by Mr. Stefan Torres, attracted great public interest. Our curator Assoc. Prof. Dr. Draško Holcer explains which species it is and where whales in the Adriatic come from. “Fin whales in the Adriatic are not animals that have strayed, that follow ships, or that come […]
24 May at 18:00 Hoću knjigu Megastore bookstore, Bogovićeva Street, Zagreb Book promotion: “PS – Recognize a Tree” On what would have been the 43rd birthday of our Zorana Sedlar, who lost her battle with a malignant illness in October 2020, her mother, the legendary radio host and editor Sonja Šarunić, will take part in […]
Four hundred thousand years of human population responses to sea-level variations and climate change in the northwestern Mediterranean The Mediterranean is a hotspot of climate change. Understanding how Paleolithic human populations responded to environmental changes and sea-level variations over the last 400,000 years enables us to preserve the cultural heritage of the past in order […]