Croatian History Museum ( hr, Hrvatski povijesni muzej) is a museum of history located in the on Antun Gustav Matoš Street in the historic Gornji Grad district of

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. The museum holdings consist of around 300,000 objects divided into 17 collections. In addition to a part of the

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, it also administers the

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Memorial Museum in Lukovdol. The museum was formed in 1940 as the Croatian National Historic Museum ('), stemming from the former National Museum ('), which was formed in 1846 (see also

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). The museum does not have a permanent display. Instead, it only holds temporary exhibitions due to lack of space. In order to remedy this problem, the building of the Zagreb Tobacco Factory (') was assigned to the museum in 2007, but as of 2015, the museum remains in Matoš Street. The museum building was damaged in the

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and remains closed to visitors as of 2021.

Collection

The museum holdings are part of 17 collections: The holdings are housed in the Vojković Palace and part of the

Library

The library of the Croatian History Museum was founded as a department of the National Museum. In 1854, the National Museum library held over 10,000 volumes. It was gradually enlarged through buying and donations, through the work of the National Museum director

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. At the split of the National Museum into specialised museums, its library was split as well. The library of the Croatian History Museum was in 1959 housed in the museum building in the Vojković Palace, where it remains today. The library contains 20,000 books, including four

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and several manuscripts, as well as a number of books printed as early as the 17th century. The primary method of book acquisition are donations and

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s, leading to an average of 300 new books yearly.

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* Museums in Zagreb History museums Museums established in 1940 Gornji Grad–Medveščak 1940 establishments in Croatia Historiography of Croatia Establishments in the Kingdom of Croatia (Habsburg) {{Croatia-museum-stub