Natural history museum — Attraction in Grad Split

Pretty cool museum with a couple of really big collections of specific things - beetles and sea shells, as well as an exhibition of photographs of local flowers on the ground floor. The layout is good and there's plenty of information in English about the beetles; it's a bit lacking for the shell part and the flowers, which are mostly in Croatian, but it's fairly self explanatory and you can get by without.

The price is very reasonable: we paid 5kn each to get in, but if you have a Split card that will get you in too. There are a few quite negative reviews here about this museum but we actually had a really good time and it was quite interesting just looking at a bunch of shells and beetles. My only real negative point is the 'aquarium', which is really just a couple of small fish tanks. I find keeping fish like this to be pretty cruel, but the rest of the...

Not worth the 10 kuna entrance fee at all. Online the photos and reviews make it sound really good but we were shocked at how cheap and small the place was. In the basement there are fish tanks that are so dirty, only one of which has fish living in it. Online it makes you think there are live animals but all it is is a collection of loads of different types of beetles in these glass cases, and then upstairs there is a collection of shells and some sea creatures but a lot of the displays didn't even have descriptions so you have no clue what you are looking at. The decorations were awful as well, the walls were covered in brown paper and there were paper bats dangling from the ceiling to make it look like a bat cave, not even a child would have found this exciting. I wouldn't even say this place is worth going to for free, there's not any ventilation...

They currently have a special exposition which lasts until the end of october and is amazing! It presents a private collection of spiders and scorpions. We talked to the owner today and he was such an impressive and smart guy. I did not know much about those animals but I love seeing them being treated well. It is quite an informative experience that certainly is unique. Thank you for sharing what you love and are interested in with everyone else :) The rest of the museum, as it seems to be open to public normally, can be an adventure as well, I was very fascinated by the large amount of different seashells and corals. It would be nice, if there were English transcriptions for the explanations upstairs...