The year-long exhibition program will be marked by the museum's anniversary, which will also be the focus of a comprehensive, richly illustrated monograph about the Museum from its founding to the end of 2023, set to be released in the second half of 2025.
The second monograph will be about the great museologist and long-time director of the Museum, Zdenka Munk.
MUO director Sanjin Mihelić said that the museum was preparing two major exhibitions, to be held in Zagreb and Pula.
The Zagreb exhibition will focus on Gothic and Renaissance goldsmithing from the 15th and 16th centuries and will open on 7 September at the Museum of the City of Zagreb. MUO's partner on the project is the Archdiocese of Zagreb, and the exhibition will present the most significant examples of goldsmithing from late medieval Zagreb and the area of the once large Zagreb Diocese.
At the beginning of June, the Sacred Hearts Museum-Gallery in Pula will host an exhibition presenting a wide range of selected, most representative items of fine and applied arts from the 13th century to the present, which, in addition to their aesthetic value, also have significant connections to the broader cultural and social contexts in which they were created.
As part of this year's Museum Night, MUO will host the exhibition "Shine and Colour: Glass Shaping in the 19th Century" at the City Museum of Nova Gradiška, which will also be staged at the Dolenjska Museum in Novo Mesto, Slovenia, in the autumn.
This will be followed by the exhibition "Marijan Detoni: From Sketch to Matrix" at the Gallery of Fine Arts in Split, an exhibition of Carnival costumes at the ULUPUH Gallery in Zagreb, an exhibition dedicated to North Macedonian artist Menče Spirovska, and an exhibition of photographs from the Arsovski family studio, to be organised in collaboration with the Museum of the City of Skopje and the Cultural and Information Centre of the Republic of North Macedonia in Zagreb.
Three more collaborative exhibitions will be held: "Histo(e)ry of Forgetting - The First Female Employees in Zagreb's Museums", to be staged in collaboration with the Ethnographic Museum and the Croatian School Museum, an international exhibition at the Glass Centre in Bärnbach, Austria, and the exhibition "Architecture and Housing Culture in Zagreb 1880-1940", to be staged at the Croatian State Archive in Zagreb.