Mimara Museum

The Mimara Museum () is an art museum in the city of Zagreb, Croatia. It is situated on Roosevelt Square, housing the collection by Wiltrud and Ante Topić Mimara.

Housed in an imposing neo-Renaissance former school is the eclectic, globe-trotting private art collection of Ante Topić Mimara, who donated over 3,750 priceless objects to his native Zagreb (even though he spent much of his life in Salzburg, Austria). Inside you'll find Ptolemaic glassware from Alexandria, delicate jade and ivory Qing-dynasty ornaments, ornate 14th-century wooden crosses encrusted with semiprecious stones and a vast European painting collection with works by Caravaggio, Rembrandt, Bosch, Velázquez, Goya, Renoir and Degas.

For over thirty years the Mimara Museum has been a centre of the artistic, cultural and social scene in Zagreb. When the museum opened on July 17, 1987, an important collection of art, the "masterwork" of one of the greatest art collectors in this part of the world, Ante Topić Mimara, was presented to the public. Mimara wished for his private art collection to become part of national heritage: the works of art from his private collection, which he bequeathed to the Croatian nation in 1973 and 1986, are now exhibited in the museum named Mimara after the donor.

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