The Museum was founded in 1986. Today it is important as a
scientific institution. The holdings of the Museum comprise more
than 250,000 specimens distributed among various different
collections. The collection of rocks and minerals keeps
specimens from the whole world. The geological and
palaeontological collection is a presentation of the evolution
of the plant and animal world. Inside it, the Krapina Pre-
Historic Man Collection has an important place; this is the most
important Neanderthal collection in the world. The zoological
collections, with representatives of the fauna of Croatia,
collections, with representatives of the fauna of Croatia,
collections of endemics from our area and collections of exotic
species are also valuable. In the more recent period, a
Botanical Section with herbaria has been founded. There is a
fine library in the Museum with more than 30,000 titles related
to natural history. The permanent exhibition displays the
mineralogical and petrographic and the zoological collections,
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