President Zoran Milanović Visits Croatian Sports Museum

On Tuesday, the President of the Republic of Croatia Zoran Milanović visited and toured the first permanent exhibition of the Croatian Sports Museum, opened in January of this year, which spans two floors with a collection of 500,000 objects.

The President toured the museum in the company of the museum's director, Danira Bilić, a Croatian basketball player and silver medalist at the 1988 Seoul Olympics, and Tomislav Paškvalin, a former Croatian water polo player and holder of two Olympic gold medals in water polo from Los Angeles 1984 and Seoul 1988.

The museum spans two floors and more than 500 square meters in the very center of Zagreb. The exhibition is divided into two thematic units: in the basement is the Foundation, about the development of sports and physical education since the second half of the 19th century, and on the ground floor are the Successes, dedicated to the achievements of Croatian athletes at the Olympic Games and world championships since independence.

The museum is modular, adaptable, interactive and multimedia, which allows it to be regularly refreshed, adapting to new moments in Croatian sports, but also to modern museum standards.

The Croatian Sports Museum keeps almost 500 thousand objects in its holdings, and the permanent exhibition exhibits a representative selection of the most valuable materials - about a thousand objects, books and documents, and approximately 500 photographs arranged over two floors.

Source: HRT