The Museum of Contemporary Art was established on December 21, in the year 1954. The main aim behind setting up this museum was to follow and record the happenings in the field of contemporary art all over the world.
The museum was earlier known as the City of Zagreb Galleries that included the Centre for Photography, Contemporary Art Gallery, Library, The Benko Horvat Collection and Documentation Department.
Mestrovic Foundation, earlier known as The Mestrovic Atelier, The Croatian Naive Art Museum earlier known as The Primitive Art Gallery and the present Visual Arts Education centre, were all under the Contemporary Art
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Museum. But all of them later disintegrated and started being maintained separately from the Museum of Contemporary Art.
The Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb currently possesses as many as 9000 items of interests in the field of contemporary and modern art. There are a number of prized collections in this museum. Painter Josip Seissel's rounded surrealist oeuvre and Benko Horvat's collections are a few things that are invaluable possessions of this museum.
The Museum of Contemporary Art hosts a number of exhibitions of the Croatian and international artists throughout the year. Exhibitions of the prized items of the museum are also held from time to time.
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