Museums are the best guardians of local identity and the places where the unique story of a region is most clearly told. If you let them, only seemingly modest exhibition establishments around Zagreb will turn your visit into an exciting adventure that enriches the mind and broadens your horizons.
Samobor Museum
The long and exciting history of the well-known, small town of Samobor and its surroundings is gathered in the charming, noble manor. It includes an archaeological-geological, ethnographic, cultural, and historical collection and the art collection. In addition to the museum, visit the Prica gallery, the Lang photo gallery or the first private museum Marton.
Local Museum Donja Kupčina
The open-air museum in the municipality of Pisarovina is a collection of authentic country houses with outbuildings and a collection of ethnographic objects that transports us to some almost forgotten times from the end of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th century.
St. Barbara's Mine, Rude
Part of the once-famous copper and iron mine with almost 500 years of tradition has been converted into an authentic museum that tells the mining history of this region. Moreover, a 1,500-meter-long mining-botanical educational trail completes the experience.
St. Ivan Zelina Museum
Initially, just a local collection, the Museum of St. Ivan Zelina today preserves a vast array from prehistory to the present, arranged in seventeen museum collections, and provides the broadest picture of life in the city and its surroundings.
Brdovec Museum
The peaceful municipality, situated in the northwest of Zagreb County, has collected and exhibited collections that show the long history of Zaprešić and its surroundings, i.e. the area from the western slopes of Medvednica to the Sutla, in a beautiful Art Nouveau building.
Ivanić-Grad Museum
In its short existence since 2016, this enterprising museum has not only established itself as a treasure house for the heritage of Ivanić-Grad, from history and ethnography to natural treasures but also an active participant in the life of the local community.
Matija Skurjeni Museum
Matija Skurjeni, a world-renowned painter and the representative of Croatian naïve art with an impressive biography, had donated a part of his work in 1984 for the future gallery in Zaprešić. It then grew into a museum about his life and work, located within the unique complex of the New Palace.
Museum of the Turopolje region
Located in the former old town hall building, this Veliko Gorica museum provides an insight into the most diverse aspects of life in Turopolje through its ethnographic, cultural-historical, archaeological and art collection since 1960.
The Town Museum and Gallery Jastrebarsko
The city museum and gallery are in the representatively remodelled building of the old city hall built in 1826. The museum preserves the archaeological, cultural-historical, and ethnographic heritage of the Jastrebarsko region. The famous "bula" - the charter of King Bela IV, which granted Jastrebarsko the status of a free royal city on January 12, 1257, is also exhibited here. Not far from Jaska in Krašić, you can visit The Memorial Room of Blessed Alojzije Stepinac.
Uskoks Museum of Žumberak
Opened in 2006, on St. George's Day, the patron saint of the parish, in the former outbuilding of the rectory in Stojdraga. It exhibits a valuable collection of ethnographic objects in everyday usage by the people of Žumberak until recently. So, if you've never seen a comb for combing hemp and you don't know what hemp is, don't miss a tour of this exciting place. A little further away in the town of Sošice, in the monastery of the Sisters of the Order of Saint Basil the Great, there is a valuable ethnographic collection.
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