Renaissance art & Early modern art museums in Croatia

The Mimara Museum is a museum in Zagreb that hold the collection of of Ante and Wiltrud Topić Mimara, with objects dating from the prehistoric period up to the 20th century. The works on display in the museum include works by French painters (Georges de La Tour, Boucher, Chardin, Delacroix, Corot, M

Tortureum - Museum of Torture holds a collection of instruments of torture and execution that have been employed since the ancient times to the present day, illustrating violence throughout history. The museum has around 70 instruments of torture on display. Multimedia guides let visitors learn more

The Strossmayer Gallery of Old Masters is an art museum in Zagreb that is housed in the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts. The collection it holds and exhibits was donated to the city by Bishop Josip Juraj Strossmayer in 1884. The collection contains around 4,000 works, of which around 250 are o

Ivan Meštrović bought a 16th century Renaissance castello and refurbished it according to his own design (1939 - 1941) as a place of peace and contemplation. Into the complex secluded above the sea Meštrović interpolated a cloister with stone Doric columns and the Holy Crucifix church. The cycle of