Croatian History Museum — Attraction in City of Zagreb

They had an excellent exhibit (I spent 2 hours there) but a fooolish rule against taking photos. They complain in print that they don't have enough funding, but then they won't let people take photos and share this. Misguided! Sharing photos would make the museum more popular. Also, all over the world, almost all history museums allow--even encourage--taking photos. There is no good reason for this museum to be different. In addition, they were rude and inconsistent in explaining the "no photo" rule. They said "you can take some but not too many", then they said "no photos". Then they just made up a number "you can take five". After this, the staff went around with their own friends and took lots of photos: not for work, just for fun. So, despite a really good exhibit, it was not a...

The museum has been housed here since 1959, but it only became the Croatian History Museum in 1991 when several collections and two museums were merged. The museum illustrates the history of Croatia from the Middle Ages to the present day by means of all kinds of mementoes. These include documents and paintings of political, military and cultural events, as well as items such as firearms, flags and medals. The exhibitions are not permanent but change frequently due to limited space.The museum is housed in the Baroque Vojković-Oršić-Rauch Palace, which dates from the second half of the...

Been here last weekend. I generally liked the museum, it's a limited number of items on display, that can't be helped. They had a temporary exhibition on the Roman settlement of Bribir and some permanent exhibition on the general Croatian history. At times the English text didn't make sense and was hard to follow. However, the WORST thing was that the staff at the museum entrance on the second floor just KEPT TALKING LOUDLY for the hour I...