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Maritime and History Museum (Rijeka)
In 1892, the building of the Governor’s Palace began. Today this place represents the Maritime and History Museum of the Croatian Littoral, which was founded in 1961. This museum contains an ethnographic, archaeological, cultural-historical and maritime departments. The Maritime and History Museum with its complex material research from prehistory to the new era, scientific and technical methods and processes, presents the role and the development of all social beings in the area of Primorsko-Goranska County. The Maritime and History Museum of Rijeka, with its interdisciplinary approach offers seeing, understanding and exploring the nature of space and people, memory and myth, and reveals identity thus establishing a link between the past and the present times.
Category: Morate posjetiti, Muzeji-galerije-palače,
Museum square, Rijeka 51000
45.329456, 014.442527 (45°19’46.0″N, 014°26’33.1″E)
www.ppmhp.hr
info@ppmhp.hr, uprava@ppmhp.hr
00385 (0)51 55 36 67, 00385 (0)51 55 36 66
Big, 3 floors
Mon: 09:00–16:00h, Tue-Sat: 09:00-20:00h, Sun: 16:00-20:00h, closed on holidays and national holidays.
Adults: 15 HRK (2 EUR); Children (7-18god), students, seniors: 10 HRK (10.30 EUR); Free entrance for: children up to 7 years, members of professional associations, the press
1:30h
Tips:
Next to the Maritime and History Museum there is another museum – Museum of city Rijeka. GPS: 45.32973, 014.44222 (45°19’47.0″N, 014°26’32.0″E).
GPS coordinates: 45.329456, 014.442527 (45°19’46.0″N, 014°26’33.1″E)
Address: Museum square, Rijeka
Maritime and History Museum is located in the old town of Rijeka on Museum square. Museum is located inside of the Governor’s Palace (about 450m from the city tower).
Translations:
If you are driving with a car, show this translation to the taxi driver:
Molim Vas da me odvezete do Pomorskog i povijesnog muzeja koji se nalazi nedaleko od
starog grada Rijeke na adresi Muzejski trg. Muzej se nalazi unutar zgrade Guvernerove palače
(od Gradskog tornja udaljen oko 450 metara). Hvala!
You must also show to the taxi driver that he must turn on the taximeter:
Molim Vas uključite taksimetar. Hvala!
Additional translation:
Please can you tell me how to find this sight:
Molim Vas da me uputite prema Pomorskom i povijesnom muzeju koji se nalazi nedaleko od
starog grada Rijeke na adresi Muzejski trg. Muzej se nalazi unutar zgrade Guvernerove palače
(od Gradskog tornja udaljen oko 450 metara). Hvala!
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