The works of art were handed over for use by the Museums of Croatian Zagorje, in line with the president's decision. The museum's curator, Vlasta Krklec, said that arrangements for a donation of works of art from the President's Office had begun during the term of the previous president, Ivo Josipovic, after his visit to Kumrovec.
During a visit to Germany on Wednesday, Grabar-Kitarovic said that Tito's bust would be moved from the presidential palace to another location. "Tito was a dictator," she said when asked about the sculpture, stressing that it would be moved to an appropriate location, probably Kumrovec.
Grabar-Kitarovic had previously announced that she would move Tito's bust from the presidential office, where the sculpture was also displayed during the term of Croatia's first president Franjo Tudjman. Her plan was met with criticism in some quarters, with former president Stjepan Mesic asking her to transfer the bust to his office.
Prime Minister Zoran Milanovic has said that Josip Broz Tito and Franjo Tudjman are the best that the Croatians had in their respective periods of history, and that anyone who cannot understand that cannot understand Croatia's history either.
On Thursday, Tito's bust, a work of sculptor Antun Augustincic, was put on display in the house in Kumrovec where Tito was born.