The Croatian Museum of Tourism continues with the successful project Contemporary guest-artist by inviting the performer Siniša Labrović to discuss the theme of tourism and travelling. Siniša Labrović is preparing a performance—exhibition entitled Seasons in the Croatian Museum of Tourism’s Villa Angiolina on Thursday, 9th May 2013, at 7 pm. "The Seasons" performance shows a hotel maid whilst making the same bed after a number of hotel guests have slept in it. Tourism is essentially based on three items: travelling (changing place), news (expecting everything to be different... more

“Greetings from Opatija” is a quote that appears on old postcards, a commonplace phrase primarily associated with our town. The Croatian Museum of Tourism’s exhibition speaks of Opatija’s glory days, from the Austro-Hungarian period from the end of 19th and beginning of 20th century when Opatija became a health resort for the European bourgeois and aristocratic elite through the Italian period when Opatija tried to maintain the status of a fashionable bathing resort right up until recent history: the period of the Opatija Festival, Opatija as a famous destination for nightlife and entertainment… more

The Croatian Museum of Tourism in collaboration with the Croatian Society of Artists in Rijeka is preparing an exhibition entitled “The Critic Selects”. It is the exhibition determined with regards to theme and content by the chosen art critic, the art historian who is in this occasion Nikola Albaneže. The exhibition entitled “Communication complexity of art language”, according to the words of the selector is “the attempt of bringing closer current poetic” into a meaningful whole as well as their interaction. There are 23 authors taking part in exhibition, all members of HDLUR (the Croatian Society of Artists in Rijeka) whilst... more

A photography exhibition by Marin Aničić entitled “Postcards from America”, is being organised by the Croatian Museum of Tourism at Villa Angiolina in Opatija on Friday 22.3.2013 at 8 pm. Marin Ančić is a notable photographer and Opatija’s photo reporter for the Novi list newspaper who on this occasion took part in the Croatian Museum of Tourism’s project as a contemporary guest-artist... more

This year, the “Iginio Scarpa” Camellia Lovers’ Association is organising its fifth exhibition entitled “Camellias from the Opatija Riviera” that will take place from 22nd to 24th March 2013. The exhibition will open on Friday, 22nd March 2013 at 7 pm at the “Juraj Šporer” Artistic Pavilion in Opatija. The main organizer is the “Iginio Scarpa” Camellia Lovers’... more