Solana Nin Salt Museum — Attraction in Grad Nin

The place is advertised as the salt museum. We arrived, asked for entrance tickets to the museum. We've been sold a ticket for 110 hrk and were sent to to "museum", a small building named The House of Salt. It is a very small building divided into 3 sections. The first is a looping video on the place (and a game for children), the second section is dedicated to production but there are like 3-4 artifacts only, plus some signs from the '70s and a typewrited letter from 1975 on treatment of electrocuted workers or whatnot. The third section is a model of the complex with leds highlighting different pools (phases of the process). The guides were very kind, although they don't do it usually, but as they had nothing to do, offered us a guided tour of the museum. Upon finishing the third section, I asked if we're about to see all this on site too and than came the punch in the face. The guided tour of the site is another story, you need a separate ticket for the outside tour. It costs 150 hrk for two adults, two children and includes everything that was presented in the house of salt. The artifacts are on display in the shop too. Don't make the mistake of asking for an entrance ticket to the museum, ask only for the...

The "museum" piece is a joke:) the lady at counter said it lasts for 30-45minutes depending if you watch whole movie that is screened there. The movie is 10-15 minutes long, it is in croatian plus random subtitles so you have to wait for english or read german or whatever else is at the moment. The museum itself is 1 room with couple of stuff, interesting i admit and you learn about different salts, also lots of salts to touch. So that is nice but everything can be checked in 5-10 minutes. Unless you read everything, there are literally walls of text.

But! The Salt fields are great. Walking there seeing how it works. Usually you can Access the fields only with guide tours that cost extra. But we were in september and the lady said we can go check it out if we wont walk across the fields. There was also a pile od harvested Salt from whole year you could touch.

In summary, 5eur is very much for the museum itself. But if you can go see fields then it kinda recompensates. The gift shop is amazing, much od great stuff. They also have an official 2nd shop in Zadar old town but i dont know if they have everything as at...

The salt story is interesting of course. But the entry is 5+ eur for person and I expected more than a 40 sq m exhibition for that. When we were there the access to the salt pools was barred, so we could only get to the swing at their beginning. The souvenir shop is nice, loads of choice - but it is set up with the cashier in the middle in such a way that it blocks the flow of customers. Anyone coming in to buy tickets needs to stand in the queue with everyone else buying trinkets (BTW very unclear which cashier is working and where the queue even is). Not to mention that the shop assistants seemed more concerned with packing some other orders (online?) blocking counter space and walkway space, making only one cashier operational, than serving the crowd that...