Modern Gallery renamed National Museum of Modern Art

The name change will bring clarity, precision and practicality of professional communication at the local, national and international levels, it was said.

"The Modern Gallery changed its legal status in the past but it has always been a national museum. In international communication particularly there have been ambiguities because the term gallery implies that it is an exhibition venue rather than a national museum, which was why the institution's director had proposed, with the consent of the institution's steering board and the Croatian Museum Council, that the name of the institution be changed," Culture and Media Minister Nina Obuljen Korzinek said.

The Modern Gallery was opened on 16 May 1934 and is located in the historic Vranyczany Palace, bought by the Banovina of Croatia for that cultural institution.

After Croatia declared independence from Yugoslavia, the Modern Gallery became a public institution providing museum services of national interest.

It is one of the oldest institutions in visual arts and one of the umbrella cultural institutions, founded with the aim of promoting national visual arts. Today it holds a collection with 11,000 works of art of exceptional national importance.