Zagreb City Museum
The city's history museum in a former Poor Clares convent on the Upper Town, with Gradec's medieval walls.
The Zagreb City Museum was founded in 1907 by the Brethren of the Croatian Dragon and has occupied the former Convent of the Poor Clares in Opatička Street since 1947. The complex knits together several protected structures: the seventeenth-century convent, a municipal granary of the same period, and the Popov toranj or Priest's Tower, a defensive tower of the Gradec town walls later used as an observatory. Archaeological remains of the walls and of an earlier settlement are displayed beneath the building.
The permanent display, reordered in the late 1990s, follows Zagreb from prehistory through the twin medieval settlements of Gradec and Kaptol, their union in 1850, the nineteenth-century expansion of the Lower Town and the twentieth century. Reconstructed interiors, shop signs, guild material, costume and models of the city are shown alongside studio interiors of Zagreb artists. The museum also cares for a group of memorial collections and studio flats elsewhere in the city.
Highlights
- Former Poor Clares convent, granary and Priest's Tower in one complex
- Archaeological remains of the Gradec town walls in the basement
- Permanent display tracing Zagreb from prehistory to the present day
- Reconstructed interiors, guild material and models of the old city
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