Croatian Railway Museum

Croatian Railway Museum (Croatian: Hrvatski željeznički muzej) is a specialized technical museum in Croatian capital Zagreb, located on the premises of Zagreb Glavni kolodvor, the main railway station of Zagreb.

Croatian Railway Museum
Hrvatski željeznički muzej
Established19 March 1991 (1991-03-19)[1]
LocationZagreb, Croatia
Visitors6,052 (2017)[2]
DirectorTamara Štefanac[3]
Websitemuzej.hzinfra.hr

History

Efforts to establish a railway museum in Zagreb go back to 1966, when Zagreb railway administration decided to establish the Railway Department within the Zagreb Technical Museum, but due to limited space and lack of staff, it could not be carried out.[1]

The museum was established on 19 March 1991 by the Croatian Railways as the Railway Museum of Croatia (Croatian: Željeznički muzej Hrvatske). It was renamed to the current name by a decision of Croatian Railways on 20 May 2001.

References
  1. "The history of Croatian Railway Museum". Croatian Railway Museum. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 6 August 2015.
  2. "Posjećenost hrvatskih muzeja u 2017. godini" (PDF). mdc.hr (in Croatian). Zagreb: Museum Documentation Center. Retrieved 1 October 2019.
  3. "Informacije i kontakt". Croatian Railway Museum. Retrieved 6 August 2015.

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