During the management of Franjo Buntak, PhD at the Zagreb City Museum from 1957 to 1967, the museum employed professionals—curators Vanda Ladović, Nada Premerl, and photographer Josip Vranić. After the first celebration marking the Museum’s 50th anniversary, the same team organised a second anniversary celebration: a full-day event commemorating 60 years of the existence of […]

Is anyone completely indifferent to non-working days of the year? Even on a personal level, not all days in the year are equally important to us. We have special days, important dates in our lives, when we celebrate birthdays, name days, and various anniversaries, when we celebrate or mark religious, national, and international holidays. Some […]

After its establishment in 1907 and placement in the Stone Gate Tower, the Art Pavilion, in Opatička 8, Zagreb City Museum was relocated at the beginning of 1947 to the former convent of the Clarisse nuns at 20 Opatička ulica. Two years later, on 30 November, 1949, the Museum opened its doors to the public […]

Franjo Buntak (Zagreb, 2 September 1910 – Zagreb, 14 December 1985) was a distinguished art historian and a long-time director of the Zagreb City Museum. He studied art and culture history and classical archaeology at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Zagreb, where he obtained his PhD in 1938 with a thesis Župna […]