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27-474: The museum was formed in 1940 as the Croatian National Historic Museum ( Hrvatski narodni historički muzej ), stemming from the former National Museum ( Narodni muzej ), which was formed in 1846 (see also Croatian Natural History Museum ). The museum does not have a permanent display. Instead, it only holds temporary exhibitions due to lack of space. In order to remedy this problem,

54-482: A geological map of Moslavačka gora in central Croatia by Ljudevit Vukotinović , as well as the work of Đuro Pilar , one of the first Croatian academic geologists. "The Empire of Minerals" ( Carstvo minerala ) displays a collection of minerals assembled by location of discovery, including collections of agate from Lepoglava and opal , gemstones rare in Croatia. "Rocky Planet Earth" ( Stjenoviti planet Zemlja )

81-503: A German group who was performing at the theatre at the time, portrayed the following plays: A collective German language repertoire with standard features of the Austrian province of the time was portrayed in Amadeo's theatre: dramas, operas, ballets and a special kind of uncomplicated plays with singing sections which later developed into an operetta called Singspiel . At the beginning of

108-519: A former director of the National Museum. The original remains are held in the museum's vault , while a replica is being exhibited in the Krapina museum. The museum's permanent display encompasses mineralogical and petrographical collections, as well as a collection of animals, the bulk of which dates back to the 19th century. The zoological collection is on the second floor of the museum. It includes

135-676: A large scientific library open to the public, and publishes the first Croatian natural history scientific journal, Natura Croatica . The permanent display of the Croatian Natural History Museum consists of mineralogical, petrographical and zoological collections, as well as two permanent exhibits in the atrium : the Rock Map of Croatia and the Geological Pole. It is home to the remains of the Neanderthal from Krapina . As of 2021,

162-455: A recent renovation, the museum building was severely damaged in the 2020 Zagreb earthquake and was provisionally declared unfit for use. Many exhibits were damaged or destroyed in the earthquake. In late 2020, the museum holdings were moved to a specialised storage building, pending the completion of repairs to the Amadeo Palace. As of March 2021, the completion and reopening of the museum

189-589: Is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . This article about a museum in Croatia is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Croatian Natural History Museum The Croatian Natural History Museum ( Croatian : Hrvatski prirodoslovni muzej ) is the oldest and biggest natural history museum and the main body for natural history research, preservation and collection in Croatia . Located on Dimitrije Demeter Street in Gornji Grad , one of

216-500: Is not known how many titles it holds. A 1999 estimate is 30,000 volumes and 13,100 monographs . In 1885, Brusina led a successful initiative to publish The Journal of the Croatian Natural History Society ( Glasnik Hrvatskoga naravoslovnoga družtva ). The journal is published since 1972 under the title Periodicum biologorum , and focuses on biology and biomedicine , forestry and biotechnology . In 1992,

243-420: Is organized by rock types , and also contains meteorites , lava from Vesuvius and speleothems . In 2014, the exhibitions were made accessible to blind people. The atrium of the museum contains two exhibits: the Rock Map of Croatia ( Kamenospisna karta Hrvatske ) and the Geological Pole ( Geološki stup ). The Rock Map of Croatia is a mosaic map assembled from various pieces of rock found in Croatia into

270-580: Is scheduled for late 2023. The museum is home to a large scientific library open to the public. Its oldest books were printed in 17th-century Italy, and includes works by Ulisse Aldrovandi , Niccolò Gualtieri and Carl Linnaeus . The library was founded in 1868 by a newly appointed museum director, Spiridon Brusina . Starting from a meager corpus acquired from the National Library , including only three books on zoology, Brusina traveled throughout then- Austria-Hungary in order to acquire books. In 1875,

297-469: The Croatian History Museum was founded as a department of the National Museum. In 1854, the National Museum library held over 10,000 volumes. It was gradually enlarged through buying and donations, through the work of the National Museum director Spiridon Brusina . At the split of the National Museum into specialised museums, its library was split as well. The library of the Croatian History Museum

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324-475: The Croatian Natural History Museum. The museum's current building, the Amadeo Palace, was earlier home to Amadeo's theatre , the first theatre in Zagreb. Formed in 1797 by Antal Amade de Varkony , the prefect of Zagreb County , it operated until 1834. In 2000, Amadeo's theatre was revived as a yearly summer series of theatrical plays entitled Scena Amadeo ("Amadeo Scene") held in the museum atrium. Despite

351-586: The National Museum's 19th-century offspring museums, while the Botanical Department was established in 1990. The museum's holdings number over 2 million rocks, minerals, fossils, and other artefacts collected all over the country. The zoological collection consists of 1,135,000 animal specimens, including a tissue bank for DNA analysis . It also holds the remains of the Neanderthal man found near Krapina by Dragutin Gorjanović-Kramberger ,

378-604: The Slovenian breeder Aleš Mlinar were exhibited in 2013. The museum takes part in the Croatian Museum Night ( Noć muzeja ), an annual event whereby the public is allowed free entrance to many museums in Croatia during one night in the year. In the 2014 event, the museum was visited by more than 11,000 people. Amadeo%27s theatre Amadeo's theatre was founded in Zagreb , Croatia , in 1797 and lasted until 1834. It

405-661: The building of the Zagreb Tobacco Factory ( Tvornica duhana Zagreb ) was assigned to the museum in 2007, but as of 2015, the museum remains in Matoš Street. The museum building was damaged in the 2020 Zagreb earthquake and remains closed to visitors as of 2021. The museum holdings are part of 17 collections: The holdings are housed in the Vojković Palace and part of the Meštrović Pavilion . The library of

432-561: The country's shape. Exhibitions at the Croatian Natural History Museum have included " Dormice : in Biology and the Kitchen" and "Lion's Pit", exhibiting the remains of a cave lion ( Panthera leo spelaea ), found deep in Vrtare Male , a pit cave near Dramalj , Croatia. With a body length of 3.6 metres (12 ft), the lion was at the time of discovery claimed to be one of the biggest found in

459-784: The death of Amade de Varkony in January 1835, his son sold the building, and theatre life in Zagreb moved to the then newly built Stanković's theatre in St. Mark's Square . The plays in Amadeo's theatre were performed almost exclusively in the German language . In 1832 and 1833 German actors in Amadeo's theatre performed the first public and professional plays in the Croatian Kajkavian dialect . Dragutin Rakovac (1813–1854) translated two comedies by Kotzebue to Kajkavian, and Josef Schweigert, director and actor of

486-463: The home of the Amadeo Theatre and Music Company . Amadeo's theatre was a public theatre which was rented by its owner to a contractor – the principal of the theatrical group with the highest offer. Posters, tickets, announcements and advertisements were printed for plays and other events. The earliest preserved poster, dated January 1799, advertised a comic opera by Giovanni Paisiello . After

513-488: The museum acquired the large library and natural history collection of Francesco Lanza , a physician and archaeologist from Split , Croatia. Brusina retired in 1901, reporting a collection 1,800 works in 3,948 volumes three years earlier. In 1928, it was recorded that the library held 5,838 books in 9,901 volumes. As the library was not professionally maintained during the Croatian War of Independence or inventoried since, it

540-540: The museum began publishing Natura Croatica , a peer-reviewed biological and geological academic journal. The natural history journal was the first of its kind in Croatia, despite the existence of seven natural history museums. The journal is published quarterly in English, and reviewed by both Croatian and foreign scholars. The museum is divided into Mineralogical–Petrographical, Geological–Palaeontological, Zoological and Botanical Departments. The first three are successors to

567-409: The museum is closed pending the completion of reconstruction following the 2020 Zagreb earthquake . The history of the Croatian Natural History Museum begins with the founding of the so-called "National Museum" ( Narodni muzej ) on 10 September 1846, the first museum for historic and pre-historic objects related to Croatia. In 1867, it was moved to its current address. The National Museum grew and

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594-483: The oldest neighbourhoods of the Croatian capital Zagreb , it owns one of the biggest museum collections in Croatia, with over 2 million artefacts, including over 1.1 million animal specimens. It was founded in 1846 as the "National Museum". The National Museum was later split up into five museums, three of which were in 1986 merged as departments of the newly named Croatian Natural History Museum. The museum contains

621-618: The skeleton of a Mediterranean monk seal , a basking shark native to the Adriatic Sea and an Atlantic puffin , a bird today native to the Arctic area, which is believed to have nested in the Adriatic in the 19th century. The mineralogical and petrographical collections are divided into three exhibitions. "From a Collection to a Museum" ( Od zbirke do muzeja ) showcases the work of Croatian mineralogists and petrographers through history, including

648-478: The world thus far. Another notable exhibition displayed the reconstruction of a megalodon , an extinct giant shark found in the plains of northern Croatia, where the Paratethys ocean once stood. The museum held the first moss animal exhibition in the world in 2006, entitled "Neptune's Lace". In 2009, visitors had the opportunity to view crocodile fossils from the island Pag , while eighty live snakes owned by

675-410: Was in 1959 housed in the museum building in the Vojković Palace, where it remains today. The library contains c. 20,000 books, including four incunabula and several manuscripts, as well as a number of books printed as early as the 17th century. The primary method of book acquisition are donations and book exchanges , leading to an average of 300 new books yearly. This Zagreb -related article

702-659: Was split into five new museums by the end of the 19th century. Three of them covered natural history: the Croatian National Zoological Museum ( Hrvatski narodni zoološki muzej ), the Geological–Palaeontological Museum ( Geološko-paleontološki muzej ) and the Mineralogical–Petrographic Museum ( Mineraloško-petrografski muzej ). All three were housed in the same building on Demeter Street 1, and, in 1986, united into

729-500: Was the first continuously operating theatre in Zagreb. Amadeo's theatre was named after Anton Amade de Varkony , Hungarian count and notable county prefect of Zagreb . Amadeo's theatre was situated in the former Blatna (Mud) and Kazališna (Theatre) Street, which afterwards got the name Demetrova. The building in which it was situated is the present location of the Croatian Natural History Museum and, from 2000,

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