The permanent display was opened in the new building, and it, for the first time, presents in a systematic and chronological order the development of Zagreb up to the beginning of the 19th century. This display lasted until 1991, when it gave way to a large exhibition, About the old crafts of Zagreb, after which the preparation for the improvement and restoration of the object ensued, as well as the elaboration of the new concept of the permanent display. Along with that, the previously started archeological and preservation research was continued.
Made after the model of complex scientific and technical museums of the world, Zagreb's Technical Museum is of a more general orientation i.e. constitutes a rather complex scientific and technical institution, as opposed to more specialized technical museums covering individual technical fields.
An overview of museum collections and departments of the Archaelogical museum in Zagreb: permanent collections, exhibitions, and the lapidarium with stone monuments from the ancient Greek and Roman times. The Museum also contains an Egyptian collection, the only such collection in this part of Europe, and a Numismatic collection, one of the largest in Europe and the World.
The Contemporary Art Museum was established on 21 December, 1954, with the purpose of following, documenting, and promoting contemporary art events, styles, and phenomena. The largest part of the Museum's Collection consists of the works by both Croatian and foreign authors created after 1950, while there is also a smaller part dating back to the first half of the 20th c.
The Ethnographic Museum is located in a remarkable Secession building, built around 1903, that once used to seat the Crafts Hall. It was established in 1919 upon the initiative of Salamon Berger, textile merchant and industrialist, originally from the Slovak Republic. He donated to the Museum one among the first and largest folk costumes and textile collections.
The Croatian Museum of Naïve Art has about 1,500 items in its holdings (paintings, sculptures, drawings and prints), mostly by Croatian naïve artists. The permanent exhibit has been prepared under a dual motto: "Naïve Art as a Segment of Modern Art" and "They Are the Makers of the History of Croatian Naïve Art". Some eighty representative paintings and sculptures are shown by about twenty classics of Croatian naïve art from the early 1930s to the present day.
This service offers information on natural history of Croatia (zoology, botany, geology, paleontology, mineralogy), scientific collections and exibitions in CNHM and scientific journal "Natura Croatica" published by the CNHM