Croatian History Museum

Zagreb

The Croatian History Museum’s Numismatic Collection emerged relatively late, only in the latter half of the twentieth century. The number of exponents in the Collection is 3,066. It was formed mainly thanks to donations made by both individuals and institutions.

The Collection contains both coins and paper currency, “necessity money” (Notgeld), tokens and bonds. Most of its exponents are coins and paper currency issued by the states of which today’s Republic of Croatia was a member in the twentieth century (the Austro-Hungarian Empire, the State of Slovenes, Croats and Serbs, the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, the Independent State of Croatia, and the Federal People’s Republic of Yugoslavia and the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia).
A smaller portion of the exponents are coins from Antiquity, the Middle Ages and the Early Modern era and coins and paper currency from various European states. These items date from Antiquity to the twentieth century.

They are often put on display in historical exhibitions, and they reflect social circumstances in specific historical periods.

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By Robert Laithwaite on May 3, 2019

I really enjoyed this museum. The museum is small and as such all exhibitions are only temporary but this means that you can see different things each time. The current 1918 exhibition gives great insight to the Croatian aspects of WW1

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By Anders Johansson (jackbob) on March 16, 2020

Been here last weekend. I generally liked the museum, it's a limited number of items on display, that can't be helped. They had a temporary exhibition on the Roman settlement of Bribir and some permanent exhibition on the general Croatian history. At times the English text didn't make sense and was hard to follow. However, the WORST thing was that the staff at the museum entrance on the second floor just KEPT TALKING LOUDLY for the hour I was in. Stupid.

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By Ilze Vasiļjeva on May 16, 2019

Interesting but a lot of reading. It is a bit hard since English text is in much smaller font. I guess with guide would be nicer to go though exhibition.

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By Mario Garcia Lezama on May 29, 2019

Nice historical building which is the history museum of Croatia. Unfortunately it is too small for permanent exhibitions but the one being showed now was very interesting related to the year 1918- end of the 1st world war
Staff very friendly, price 15 Kunas pro person is OK.

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By William Wolf on March 14, 2018

They had an excellent exhibit (I spent 2 hours there) but a fooolish rule against taking photos. They complain in print that they don't have enough funding, but then they won't let people take photos and share this. Misguided! Sharing photos would make the museum more popular. Also, all over the world, almost all history museums allow--even encourage--taking photos. There is no good reason for this museum to be different. In addition, they were rude and inconsistent in explaining the "no photo" rule. They said "you can take some but not too many", then they said "no photos". Then they just made up a number "you can take five". After this, the staff went around with their own friends and took lots of photos: not for work, just for fun. So, despite a really good exhibit, it was not a good experience.