MUSEUMS

NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM



Opening hours:
Monday-Saturday 09-19, 
Sunday 09-15, on holiday closed
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The Natural History Museum Rijeka is the first regional museum in this area. It was founded on 16 May 1876 and was opened to the public on 1 May 1946. It is situated in Vladimir Nazor park near the Governor's Palace in the family house of Count Negrone.

The activities of this establishment are linked to collecting, preparing and preserving natural history objects from the area of Kvarner, Istra and Gorski Kotar. Through a permanent museum display from original material, one can discover more about the natural heritage, history of research as well as the state and protection of Rijeka area. If required, an expert guide is available on request for a tour of the exhibits.

In the collections and storerooms of the museum, one can find rare and well preserved specimens. In the entire inventory there are 90,000 specimens, arranged in 24 collections.
The professional museum library holds 4,260 books in its possesion. The following exhibitions are on permanent display in the Natural History museum: Methodology of Research in Oceanography, the Geological History of the Adriatic Sea, the Geology of Rijeka and its surrounding area, the Systematics of Minerals, Seaborn Invertebrate, Sharks and Rays, the Osteichthyes fish and Multimedial aquarium centre. Work is also being carried out in rooms for displaying Insects, Reptiles and Amphibians, Birds and Mammals of Rijeka and the surrounding area.

Entrance fee:

Adults 10,00 kn
Children 5,00 kn