Although newly opened, the collection dates back to 1872 when the Museo Patrio (Native Musem) was founded with a donation from the Chamber of Trade and Crafts and the private collection of pharmacist and ship-owner Antun Drobac. The collection of 100 year-old taxidermy specimens may not appeal to everyone, but kids will probably love it and learn a lot too, and the museum is not so big as to keep you on foot for hours. Other rooms are used for temporary exhibitions which currently include photography by the Croatian Biospeliological Sociaty of the cave life of the Dubrovnik region.

Admission free.

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• WAMG 15 May 2011
  The photography of the cave life of the Dubrovnik was quite an eyeopener - something I had never thought about before. A very low budget museum but worth a visit just to see the asymmetrical spider...