Zagreb Archaeological Museum ( Croatian Arheološki muzej u Zagrebu ) is a city archaeological museum in the Croatian capital Zagreb , exhibiting a large number of archaeological artifacts from different historical eras, including a number of unique ones.
| Archaeological Museum in Zagreb | |
|---|---|
| Horv. Arheološki muzej u Zagrebu | |
 | |
| Established | 1939 |
| Location | |
| Address | Miklos Zrinyi Square , 19 |
| Director | Ante Rendich-Miochevich |
| Site | amz.hr |
Content
General Information
The Archaeological Museum of Zagreb is located in a large historical building, a monument of architecture; Museum building - the former Vranichany-Hafner Palace on Zrinjovec (Vranyczany-Hafner na Zrinjevcu).
Museum institution working hours:
- on Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Fridays - from 10:00 to 17:00;
- Thursday - from 10:00 to 20:00;
- Saturdays and Sundays - from 10:00 to 13:00;
- closed on Mondays.
Museum Director - prof. Ante Rendić-Miočević.
History
The Archaeological Museum in Zagreb as an independent museum has been operating since 1939 . Before that, it functioned as a department of the National Museum.
The museum collection currently has about 400 thousand different artifacts. The funds of the Zagreb Archaeological Museum are systematized according to the collections of exhibits: prehistoric, antique (Greek and Roman monuments) and medieval.
The museum also has an ancient Egyptian collection, one of a kind in the entire region, as well as a numismatic collection, which is one of the largest such collections in Europe and around the world.
The Zagreb Archaeological Museum houses a unique collection of Etruscan monuments. The most famous and undoubtedly the most valuable of them is the famous “ Zagreb Flax Book ” (Liber linteus Zagrabiensis), the manuscript with the longest Etruscan text among the hitherto preserved, and the only surviving flax book of the ancient world.
The Zagreb Archaeological Museum operates the Andautonija Archaeological Park in Šćitarjevo near the Zagreb district of Dubrava , where the remains of the ancient city of Andavtonia , which existed in the I-IV centuries, are preserved.
Notes
Links
- Museum webpage (Croatian )