The 10 Best Art Museums in Dalmatia, Croatia

Croatian Naive Art Gallery features artwork by some the finest painters within the Croatian Naive Art style, including Ivan Generalic and Ivan Andrasic, the most famous of them. Naive art is perceived as an oasis of true joy and poetic worlds, as everything in it is often structured as a harmonious whole; in naive art the emotional aspect is put before rationalism and intellectual speculation.

Red History Museum is a newly opened unique interactive experience of everyday life in communist Yugoslavia - a very different time in Croatian history. Using new and old technologies in a 300 square meter space, visitors can now explore and experience what it was like under the Yugoslav regime. Dive into the art, design, politics, secret agencies and the way of the Non-Aligned. Listen to the greatest hits of the time, witness history coming to life and learn the real life stories of people living under the watchful eye of the Communist party.

Split Nomad Gallery is the first pop-up art gallery in Split. Through one-day exhibition events every Thursday noon-10pm at Academia Ghetto Club, SPLIT NOMAD GALLERY promotes local artists. Come and visit our exhibitions every Thursday and take a look at what Split’s contemporary art scene has to offer. Choose your favorite graphic print, photograph or painting, and make use of the opportunity to chat with the exhibiting artists.

Galerija Meštrović houses the masterpieces of Ivan Meštrović carved in marble, bronze and wood. The house was built based on Meštrović's design (1931 - 1939), and was intended to be his family summer residence, working studio and exhibition space. It is surrounded by a Mediterranean garden which, with its bronze sculptures and the view of the sea and of central Dalmatian islands makes a unique example of landscape architecture.

Jaman gallery represent work of academic painter Danijel Jaman. You can enjoy in vibrant and colorful Jaman's art. Jaman is one the most unique and creative Croatian artist and this gallery became one important culture point and attraction when you visiting Split.

The Museum of Fine Arts in Split was opened in 1931. Museum’s valuable collection today holds over 5,200 works and spans a time period from the 14th century to the most recent art production. The collection reflects the specific tastes and cultural standards of states and societies that succeeded one after the other in this region: from the Venetian Republic, Austro-Hungarian Empire, kingdom and socialist Yugoslavia to the Republic of Croatia. The display of some 400 artworks on the 2,200 m2 of exhibition space presents style, theme and media diversity of the collection in all its richness, thus providing the possibility of a unique time travel and unrepeatable experience of the evolution of artistic creativity. Besides the collection, you can visit some of our exciting temporary exhibitions showing Croatian and international art.