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Aquarium Pula is located inside the Austro-Hungarian fortress Verudela which was built in 1886, on the Verudela peninsula, just 3 km away from the very centre of Pula.

The installation of Aquarium Pula showing representatives of Adriatic flora and fauna, as well as protected and toxic marine organisms, consists of about 60 tanks placed in the area of approx. 2000 m2. Here you can, among the other ones, see strictly protected species - such as the Loggerhead Turtle (Caretta caretta Linaeus, 1758.) or Neptune Grass (Posidonia oceanica), as well as endemic species of the Mediterranean and the Adriatic Sea like the Noble Pen Shell (Pinna nobilis) or a coral, Dead Man's Fingers. (Alcyonium palmatum).

Since 2006. within the Aquarium Pula and the association called Marine Educational Centre Pula operates the Marine turtle rescue Centre - the first centre of this kind in Croatia! Here sea turtles, which are among the most endangered organisms of the world, get care and treatment, while the Centre is also engaged in educating the local population, especially fishermen who often encounter sea turtles.

The roof of the fortress Verudela offers a breathtaking view of town of Pula and the whole Istria, while an open terrace where drinks and foods are served during the summer months can be found in the trench of the fortress.

Aquarium Pula is one of those places you must visit when you're in Pula, especially if you're on your holidays with your children!

Archeological Museum, located in Pula, was founded by collecting stone monuments in the Temple of Augustus in 1802, marshal Marmont began the founding of the museum collection in Pula. However, the discovery of stone, ceramic and metal objects in Nesactium was the basis for founding the Museo Civico (City Museum) in Pula in 1902.

After the seat of the “Società istriana di archeologia e storia patria” had been moved and with the transfer of the archaeological inventory from Poreč to Pula, the Museo Civico was integrated with the National collection (stone monuments) and the Poreč Regional Museum (Museo Provinciale) into one regional institution. Therefore, in 1925 the Museum of Istria (Il Regio Museo dell'Istria) was founded in the present-day museum building. In 1930 the museum opened its doors to visitors, and a guidebook in Italian was published. This exhibition, along with minor changes, was open for the public until the end of World War II, when many objects were transferred to Italy during the Anglo-American administration.

After some modifications in the collection of stone monuments and having displayed the remaining exhibits, in 1949 the museum reopened as the specialized Archaeological Museum of Istria. By systematic work and with great efforts, after having restituted part of the archaeological objects from Italy in 1961, the museum building was gradually renovated and the museum exhibits displayed in a representative didactical-visual concept. The reconstructed collection of stone monuments on the ground floor and museum halls reopened in 1968. In 1973 the prehistoric room on the 1st and the classical, late Roman and medieval exhibits on the 2nd floor of the museum opened.

The museum halls of the Archaeological Museum of Istria are constantly being extended; supplemented with new finds from archaeological sites in Istria (prehistoric caves, hill forts and necropolises, Roman economic complexes, buildings and cemeteries, as well as sacral edifices from the early Christian and Byzantine period.

Narona Archeological Museum is built on the remains of the ancient Roman city called Narona, that was located in the Neretva valley in present day Croatia; near city of Dubrovnik. Narona Archeological Museum is the first Croatian in situ Museum, meaning built on the very location.

Narona was the major Roman stronghold which became a colony in 2nd century BC, and settlement was occupied until the start of 7th century and stopped functioning as a settlement soon after the arrival of Croatian tribes in the region.

In 1995 a Roman temple building was discovered, which had been dedicated by the governor Dolabella and contained statues of the emperors Claudius and Vespasian, as well as two of Augustus and his wife Livia. The statues had been vandalized in the 4th century: they were lying on the floor and their heads had been broken off.

The heads of Vespasian and one of the Livias had been acquired in the surrounding area, the former by Arthur Evans in 1878: these heads were reunited with their bodies, and the shrine's statues are now touring major European museums.

The Brijuni archipelago comprises a group of two larger and twelve smaller islands lying along the west coast of Istria, not far from Pula, and which have a total land area of 7 km2.

The islands of Brijuni are famed for their well preserved Mediterranean flora like holm-oak trees, lofty dense underbushes, pines and cypresses, partly shaped like a landscape park. On Brijuni you will also find a safari park with mostly exotic herbivores as well as the valuable cultural heritage dating from Roman and Byzantine times.
Because of their extraordinary beauty the Brijuni have been a popular tourist destination for world statesmen and members of the international aristocracy for over a hundred years.

This is one of the numerous Dubrovnik Museums worth of seeing for its rich fund. The Museum is opened in 1991.year. Etnographic Museum is located in the very center of Dubrovnik. The Museum exposure fund consist over 5000 pieces.

In the building from the 1590. year, constructed by Dubrovnik Government in the oldest part of the town, on Lava Island, were kept the municipal grain backups-wells, in 15 big tanks made in stone.

After restoration, the originally look of the Museum is kept, and architecture is highlighted with fence.

The main exposure of the Etnographic Museum Dubrovnik shows the traditional culture of Dubrovnik Region. On the first floor there is the exposure of economy and material fund from Dubrovnik's past; on the second floor is the spiritual fund: customs,traditional wearings, folklore, texture and lace) from the past.

Ethnographic Museum Split is located inside the Palace of Diocletian, in areas which the emperor himself had used as his private quarters. An integral part of this impressive Museum's building is also the church of St. Andrew de Fensetris, built by Sever the Great who adapted one of the six bedrooms (cubiculuma) located in the western part of the imperial apartment of Diolecletian. Museum Management is located inside the respectable family Božičević's home - one of the palaces of Split built in the early Middle Ages, construction layers of which date back to ancient times. Museum exhibition consists of the art, jewelry, chests and arms collection, as well as it demonstrates costumes in ethnic style of the Adriatic and Dinaric area.

Mestrovic Gallery is located in Split, and is consisted of the complex of the residence of the famous artist Ivan Mestrovic. It was built from year 1931. - till 1939; and it it located on the southern part of Marjan Hill, right above the sea level; over the scalinade of stairs projected by Mestrovic himself for entering its bay called Jezinec.

Ivan Mestrovic is one the most know Croatian artist of the 20th Century. He was born in Dalmatinska Zagora Region in year 1883.; raised in Split, studied at Vienna where his talent was shown pretty early.
He was working in Paris along with great Rodin, at Rome he got back to classics, and in London he gained the most of his success. After the World War Two, he was living and working in Unites States, where he dies at year 1962. Mestrovic Villa is built in classic style. Two symetrical wings of the building are connected with the porch. The living area are decorated in cariatides dressed in local folk dresses of his region. The Villa has a great terrace with magnificent sea view.

In the inner part of the exhibitional area is filled with its marble, stone, bronze and wood; along with paintings and sketches, and outside it is a great statue of Kiklop, one the symbols of the Gallery; together with many other bronze statues.

With its beautifull landscape, the garden in the summer time becomes a summer theatre scene, with plays like Turandot and the Summer Night Dream. Nearby the family house, Mestrovice bought Kastelet, the land of the burg family Capogrosso – Kavanjin from the 17th century.

In the year 1939 he renovated and projected, for the collection of his works;the Church of St.Cross.

The Senj Town Museum is situated in Kvarner Bay, in the palace of the Vukasović family which was one of the most respectable and most influential family in Senj.

The palace was built in the fourteenth and fifteenth century in the Gothic and Renaissance style, being the supreme structure of the profane architecture of the town of Senj. The Senj Town Museum was established on the 7 th of May 1962 as a cultural and scientific institution with the aim to collect, preserve, classify, study, process, present and publish museological, historical and cultural dana. It also has an educational function taking care of the whole cultural and natural heritage of the town and its surroundings.

The Senj Town Museum houses the archeological collection-lapidarius, the hydro-archeological collection, the collection of the recent history of Senj and the Fatherland`s war, the etnographic collection of the Bunjevac community and the collection of the Velebit flora and fauna.

The professional library (Seninensia) with its archive, photo-documentation and paintings is part of the town`s museum of Senj.