{"id":29873,"permalink":"https:\/\/divan.fyi\/en\/place\/muzej-za-umjetnost-i-obrt\/","title":"Museum of Arts and Crafts","content":"<p> The Museum of Arts and Crafts <strong>was founded in 1880<\/strong> on the initiative of the Society of Arts and its then president Izidor Kr\u0161njavi as one of the first institutions of its kind in Europe. The Museum&#39;s strategy was to preserve the traditional values of folk crafts, but also to create a new aesthetic culture of the bourgeoisie, and in 1882, along with the Museum, the Craft School, today&#39;s School of Applied Arts and Design, was founded. <\/p>\n<p> <strong>Today, the Museum has a holdings of about one hundred thousand objects of fine and applied arts ranging from the 14th to the 21st century<\/strong> , organized into collections: furniture, glass, metal, ceramics, sculpture, painting, graphics, clocks, graphic and product design, architecture , photography (one of the oldest in the world) and photographic equipment, textiles and fashion, musical instruments, painted leather, ivory, printing and bookbinding. <\/p>\n<p> <strong>The museum library with a reading room with more than 65,000 volumes of books and magazines<\/strong> is one of the oldest and most important special libraries for arts and crafts in this part of Europe. <\/p>\n<p> The structure of museum departments has a <strong>significant role of restoration workshops that continuously work on preventive protection, conservation and restoration of museum objects<\/strong> . Within the <strong>educational activity<\/strong> , the program goals of the Museum are achieved in terms of communication with the museum audience and encouraging creativity. <\/p>\n","tags":[{"term_id":1683,"name":"muo","slug":"muo-en","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":1683,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":1,"filter":"raw"}],"region":"zagreb","address":"Trg Republike Hrvatske 10","city":"Zagreb","country":"Croatia","map_location":{"address":"Trg Republike Hrvatske 10","lat":"45.8094042","lng":"15.968689700000027"},"working_hours":"UTO-SUB: 10-19<br \/>\r\nNED: 10-14 ","working_hours_full":{"monday":"","tuesday":"10-19","wednesday":"10-19","thursday":"10-19","friday":"10-19","saturday":"10-19","sunday":"10-14"},"web_site":"https:\/\/www.muo.hr\/","email":"","phone_number":"","amenities":{"wifi":false,"smoking":false,"pets":false,"kids":true,"terrace":false},"categories":[{"term_id":241,"name":"Galleries &amp; Museums","slug":"galleries-museums","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":241,"taxonomy":"place_category","description":"","parent":0,"count":73,"filter":"raw"}],"thumbnail_featured_image":"https:\/\/divan.fyi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/muo.jpg","full_featured_image":"https:\/\/divan.fyi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/muo.jpg","gallery":false,"distanceToUser":""}