Museums
Solana Nin – the new Salt Museum
A new salt museum was recently opened as addition to Nin salt evaporation pond . The museum offers a complete insight into the extraction of salt, which follows the same tradition as in Roman times. The sea water naturally falls through the pools of the ponds where it evaporates with the help of sun and wind and eventually crystallizes into pure natural sea salt. Nin’s Salt Evaporation Pond dates back from Roman times and covers [...]
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Sunny Adriatic by car – travel brochure from 1966
The latest addition to our Photo Gallery of History of Tourism in Croatia is this image of the cover page of Sunny Adriatic – by car , a vintage travel broshure printed in 1966. It shows a bit of so called Jadranska Magistrala, the road that run along the Adriatic Sea , in direction of West with sun shining over the horizon. The broshure was published by Turisticki Savez Hrvatske (Croatia Tourist Board) [...]
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Night of Museums in Croatia
If you happened to be in Croatia tommorrow (30.01.09) , don’t miss the oportunity to enjoy Night of Museums (Noc Muzeja) - a night when 45 of Croatian museums do not close their doors after the usual opening hours, but stay open until late at night (1am) .
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Convertible Tourist Van from 1964
This convertible van , model ‘Tourist’ 1000 was produced in 1960′s by IMV (Industrija Motornih Vozil) which was a car manufacturer based in Novo Mesto, Slovenia, established in 1954.
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Permanent Exhibition History of Tourism in Dubrovnik
The Dubrovnik Tourist Board has recently approved the proposal for permanent exhibition of the History of Tourism in Dubrovnik. The permanent exhibition of Dubrovnik’s tourism history will have on display old photos, postcards and souvenirs of Dubrovnik as well as variety of documentary photographs of famous people visiting Dubrovnik at the start of last century, vintage Dubrovnik tourism and hotel brochures and other promotional material and artefacts used in Dubrovnik hotels in the last century. The exhibition venues will be the foyer of cinema ‘Sloboda’ [...]
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New telescope at the Zagreb Astronomic Observatory
Space buffs in Zagreb these days can now enjoy an even better view of the vastness of space from the Zagreb Astronomical Observatory’s modern new telescope. The installation of a large apochromatic telescope, worth about 37 thousand euro, lasted almost five months so that the news that the telescope in now functional will likely delight many space lovers and other citizens and visitors to the city of Zagreb who will [...]
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The first Mediterranean arboretum in Croatia
The Landscaping Institute of the Zagreb Faculty of Agronomics have conceived a complete project for the creation of the first Mediterranean arboretum in Croatia, which is to be located on the Primošten area islet of Smokvica, in the vicinity of Sibenik.
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Medieval monastery garden opened in Sibenik, Croatia
Sibenik , recently saw the first tourist visit to the attractive medieval gardens of the Sveti Lovro monastery, in the area of the monastery closed to the public. This has revived an important part of Sibenik’s history and given it a new dimension in both education and tourism.
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Nikola Tesla in Zagreb Technical Museum
Following last year’s celebration of the 150th anniversary of the birth of the genius Nikola Tesla – inventor, electro technician and physicist – his demonstration studio was recently reconstructed at the Zagreb Technical Museum, home of replicas of the best-known of Tesla’s inventions. The studio, part of the effort to make Nikola Tesla a recognizable brand in his native Croatia, is
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Exhibition Dominicans in Croatia
If you happened to be in Zagreb in next couple of months, don’t miss exhibition ‘Dominicans in Croatia’ in Klovićevi Dvori Gallery. This unique exhibition brings together a collection of artifacts from the monasteries and churches of the Dominicans in Croatia.
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