Museum of Contemporary Art — Attraction in City of Zagreb

Recently, I came up with the idea for ArtCracker, and now I am trying to gather an audience to test it. I remember when I was in Zagreb in 2021, traveling from Split through Plitvice Lakes. I was very eager to visit the Museum of Contemporary Art in Zagreb. Unfortunately, it was closed that day, though I don't remember the reason. Museums of contemporary art often receive mixed reactions from visitors, but I always try to visit museums in every city I travel to.

Vision problems often make it difficult to read captions in museums, leaving me feeling lost. Hiring a guide can be expensive and not always available. This experience motivated me to create the free ArtCracker app, which serves as a compromise between self-guided tours and professional guides.

The app is available in my native language, and I welcome your feedback. Let me know what changes or additions you would like to see. Let's test if our app can work effectively in the Museum of Contemporary Art in Zagreb. If you need the app in your native language, let us know.

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I am looking for like-minded individuals to help describe the collection of this museum. Let's work together to make these exhibits more well-known and make the world a friendlier place. If you want to help describe the collection, we would be very grateful.

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An excellent space, missing a bit of soul, narrative, and attention to detail.

If you pay attention, you can see that this place has the ingredients to be an excellent contemporary art museum.

What is it missing? This museum requires more thinking about the entire museum experience.

First, the coffee had lightbulbs that have gone out and no one has bothered to fix (or they don't have the money). This was an easy heuristic to gauge the quality of the museum (along with the more minor point that they didn’t carry milk alternatives, which you would think would have been standard at a contemporary art museum cafe).

The loose ends aren't perfectly tied up, there we vast areas that are unopen - which is NORMAL for a contemporary art museum - but there's a bunch of chairs, tools, and tarps just laying around. Again, it's these small details you can use to get a sense of the whole exhibition.

In terms of ART, it's all about narrative. The same art with their story told by separate people will MEAN something different. It was difficult to grasp why the various exhibitions were string together, nor was it easy to contextualize why it was important to show me, the viewer.

Overall, amazing space, great ingredients, just needs an overhaul/change on execution.

Should you go? Sure - but keep your expectations in check - the pieces are interesting, just without a coherent narrative and there are details about the experience that have room for improvement. Maybe hire an...

I am not a big fan of modern art and found the exhibits lacking. The building itself is a work of art and while I consider myself an optimist, the building was half empty.

Many exhibits were political which I understand but do not partcularly care for.

There was an architectural exhibit which consisted of posters of award winning buildings which was interesting.

Overall, the building itself is spectacular but I think they need to fill it with more art. No complaints as the entry fee was around $5.

While we were there, we noted that a musician was scheduled to perform that night. As an American, I had not heard of JR August. As we sat at the Cafe outside the museum, I heard him warming up. He sounded very interesting so we bought tickets to see him that night and I'm glad we did because we really enjoyed his music and we are now fans. His songs are mostly in English and I believe he won the Croatian album of the year in 2020, he greeted fans after the show and was very personable and down to earth. I should mention his fellow musicians were amazing including a choir, two saxophone players, one a flautist, cello player, drummer.

So, bottom line is the museum itself is a work of art and a great place to catch a concert or just relax and...