croatian oldest biggest natural history museum main body natural history research preservation collection croatia located street oldest croatian capital owns biggest museum collections croatia million artefacts including million animal specimens founded later split museums merged departments newly named museum contains large scientific library open public publishes croatian natural history scientific journal permanent display consists collections permanent exhibits rock map croatia home remains history history begins founding called national museum september museum historic pre historic objects related croatia moved current address grew split new museums end 19th century covered natural history museum housed building street united museum current building earlier home theatre theatre formed operated theatre revived yearly summer series theatrical plays entitled scene held museum library museum home large scientific library open public oldest books printed 17th century italy includes works library founded newly appointed museum director starting corpus acquired including books traveled austria hungary order acquire books museum acquired large library natural history collection physician archaeologist split croatia retired reporting collection works volumes years earlier recorded library held books volumes library professionally maintained croatian war independence known titles holds estimate volumes journals led successful initiative publish journal published title focuses biology forestry museum began publishing peer reviewed biological geological academic journal natural history journal kind croatia despite existence seven natural history museums journal published quarterly english reviewed croatian foreign scholars holdings museum divided geological botanical departments successors 19th century offspring museums established museum holdings number million rocks minerals fossils artefacts collected country collection consists animal specimens including tissue bank dna analysis holds remains man found near director original remains held museum vault replica exhibited museum museum permanent display encompasses collections collection animals bulk dates 19th century collection second floor museum includes skeleton mediterranean monk seal shark native adriatic_sea atlantic bird today native arctic area believed adriatic 19th century collections divided exhibitions collection museum showcases work croatian history including geological map central croatia work croatian academic empire minerals displays collection minerals assembled location discovery including collections rare croatia rocky planet earth organized rock types contains lava exhibitions accessible blind people museum contains exhibits rock map croatia rock map croatia mosaic map assembled pieces rock found croatia country shape exhibitions exhibitions included biology kitchen lion pit exhibiting remains cave lion leo found deep male pit cave near croatia body length metres lion time discovery claimed biggest found world far notable exhibition displayed reconstruction extinct giant shark found plains northern croatia ocean stood museum held moss animal exhibition world entitled neptune lace visitors opportunity view fossils island eighty live snakes owned exhibited museum takes annual event public allowed free entrance museums croatia night year event museum visited people
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