Mimara Museum

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The Mimara Museum (Croatian: Zbirka umjetnina Ante i Wiltrude Topić Mimara or simply Muzej Mimara) is an art museum in the city of Zagreb, Croatia, opened on July 17, 1987. It is situated on Roosevelt Square, housing the collection by its founders; Ante Topić Mimara and his wife Wiltrud.

The museum, whose building is designed in the Beaux-Arts and Neo-Renaissance architecture style, houses a collection of over 3,750 objects, distributed across 9,453.79 m2 (101,759.7 sq ft), which makes it one of the largest art museums in the world. Collection includes Ptolemaic glassware from Alexandria, jade and ivory Qing-dynasty ornaments, 14th-century wooden crosses encrusted with semiprecious stones, and paintings from European masters such as Rubens, Giorgione, Bronzino, Bosch, Velázquez, van Dyck, Goya, Catena, Renoir and Degas. The museum catalogue comprises a wide range of works and collections, including paintings from Italian, Dutch, German, English, Flemish, French, and Spanish schools; drawings and prints; European sculpture and decorative arts; and collections of ancient civilizations, ivory, ceramics and porcelain, glass, furniture, textiles and carpets, as well as Chinese and other Asian art.

The museum was established in 1980 and opened in 1987. The building itself originates from the 19th century, its conversion to a museum overseen by a Zagreb architect Kuno Waidmann; originally it served as a gymnasium. With its prominent location, articulated layout, and formal façades, the complex holds significant architectural, urban, and contextual value in shaping Zagreb’s Lower Town. It is protected as a cultural asset and listed in the Register of Cultural Goods of Croatia.

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