Ivan Mestrovic Museums

(Muzeji Ivana Meštrovića)

Ivan Mestrovic Museums (Muzeji Ivana Meštrovića) - The Ivan Meštrović Museums are dedicated to the preservation, research and promotion of the work and life of Ivan Meštrović (1883-1962).

Ivan Meštrović was famous Croatian and international artist (sculptor, painter, architect and writer). With his Deed of Donation to the Croatian People of 1952, he donated numerous masterpieces, impressive architecture and refined spaces managed by the Ivan Mestrovic Museums.

The constituents of the Museums are located in four locations: his home and studio in Zagreb (The Mestrovic Atelier), the family villa (The Mestrovic Gallery) and renovated Renaissance castello (The Mestrovic's Crikvine - Kastilac) in Split, and in Otavice (The Church of the Most Holy Redeemer), whence his family originated.

In these spaces visitors have the opportunity to enjoy hundreds of his works. Some of his monuments were built outside Croatia, for example his monument to Indians (two equestrian sculptures), erected in the Central Grant Park in Chicago in 1928.