The exhibition Quarner Seaside Heritage – Lost Bathing Establishments from the Late 19th and Early 20th Century by the authors Julija Lozzi Barković and Mirjana Kos Nalis was open at the Knežev dvor gallery on Rab from May 9th until June 15th of 2008.
The exhibition was organized by the Croatian Museum of Tourism, State Archives in Rijeka, Public College of Rab and the Tourism Association of the City of Rab.
The bathing establishments which existed on Kvarner in the late 19th and the first half of the 20th century are almost all gone. The appearance of these old wooden bathing constructions has been recorded in archives which store plans and other documents, such as photographs and period postcards.
The exhibition surveys public bathing establishments in cities and tourist towns in the region of Rijeka, Liburnija, the Croatian Littoral and northern Adriatic islands (Cres, Lošinj, Krk, and Rab).
The customs of sea bathing in the context of objects build for that purpose are reflected in modernity as non-material and, partly, material legacy. In the typological sense, we can differentiate city bathing objects and the ones in tourist towns.
The planning and construction of bathing objects in tourist towns is closely linked to the development of scientific and medical research on the beneficial effects of the sea, which becomes an accepted treatment for some diseases, then a new form of rest and relaxation.
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