The Zagreb Ethnographic Museum was established in the year 1919. The Museum building, built in the year 1903, was once used as the crafts hall. The initiative to set up the museum was taken by Salamon Berger, who was an industrialist and traded in textiles. A large part of the textile and costumes collection in the Ethnographic Museum at Zagreb, Croatia was donated by Salamon Berger.
Currently there are around 80, 000 valuable items in display at the museum. However, in the earlier days of its establishment, the major collections in the museum were from the Croatian National Museum Collections, the ethnographic collections from the Museum of Arts and Crafts and The Berger Collection. The collections are mainly from Croatia and can be divided into
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two categories - Popular Art and Handicraft and Croatian Folk Costumes.
The museum was managed by well-known museologists and ethnologists from Croatia since its inception. Milovan Gavazzi, Jelka Radaus-Ribaric and Vladimir Tkalcic are the few names associated with the museum.
Pannonian, Adriatic and Dinaric are the 3 cultural zones under which the Croatian items in the Zagreb Ethnographic Museum can be classified. The Ethnographic Museum also displays the arts and crafts items from non-European countries. There is a huge collection of rare artifacts from Asia, Africa, Australia and Latin-America.
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