Numerous residents of Zagreb and visitors attended the traditional Museum Night on Saturday evening, and among them was President Kolinda Grabar-Kitarovic, who toured the city's Technical Museum and commended the event's main theme for this year - Museums - Innovations and Digital Future.

More than 250 museums and heritage institutions throughout the country participated in this year’s event, opening their doors to visitors free of charge and staging special programmes.

The event drew a large number of visitors and outside some institutions, such as the Art Pavilion, people could be seen waiting in queues to enter.

Aside from its permanent exhibition, the Technical Museum staged “The Rijeka Torpedo – the World’s First Torpedo” exhibition and the programme “The Demonstration Cabinet of Nikola Tesla” with lectures and experiments. Visitors could also attend lectures at the museum’s planetarium.

The Croatian State Archive organised the exhibition “Tracing the past – Croatia in 1968” while visitors to the memorial museum “Marija Juric Zagorka” could see the museum’s digital collection including the magazines “Zenski list” and “Hrvatica” where that first Croatian female journalist and writer worked as editor and published her articles, as well as learn interesting details about her life and take part in a quiz.

The Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts (HAZU) Glyptotheque presented its digital material with a lecture, a virtual exhibition and an interactive tour of some of its exhibits.

The Crafts and Arts Museum staged a special thematic programme called “ATM Reality”, an application offering users the possibility to take a look into the museum building’s past. There was a bookmobile outside the museum that drew tourists from Singapore, Japan and China.

The Typhlological Museum staged the programme “Programming and Robotics” designed to promote, through workshops for children, technical innovations that assist persons with disabilities. The workshops drew great interest.