The Museum of Croatian Archaeological Monuments is one of Croatia’s oldest museums and the only museum in Croatia founded with the aim of exploring, collecting, studying, and presenting the remains of tangible and intangible culture of medieval Croatia, namely, from the 7th to the 15th centuries, particularly from the period of the early medieval Croatian state.
More than a century of tradition
Founded in Knin in 1893, the collection changed several locations until settling into the monumental museum building in 1976. Since then, this building designed by Mladen Kauzlarić, keeps and displays Croatia’s medieval archaeological treasure.
Along with a great number of stone monuments that once adorned the interiors of Early Croatian churches, the museum has a collection of about 20,000 artifacts, mostly jewelry, weapons, and objects of daily use. By its collection of early medieval interlace and figural stone monuments, together with its many Latin Early Croatian epigraphic monuments, this national museum counts among the greatest of its kind in Europe.
The program of the Festival taking place in the central exhibition hall
Since the year of 2000, the museum still doesn’t have its new permanent exhibition, but thanks to its own temporary exhibitions and those of other museums, the Museum is ever present on Croatia’s cultural scene.
The unique central exhibition hall of approx. 1,000 m2 offers an immemorable experience of watching the program of the International Archaeology Film Festival.
