MOMAD Museum of Modern Art Dubrovnik

This guide to MOMAD, the Museum of Modern Art in Dubrovnik, follows Bozo Banac, a shipping magnate who spent four years in the 1930s building a mansion designed to look five hundred years old. You'll hear how architects Lavoslav Horvat and Harold Bilinic copied the proportions of the Rector's Palace and the old Sorkocevic villas to pull off the illusion, and how little time Banac had to enjoy the result before war and a new communist government intervened. Look at the facade's pale stone and stepped terraces, built purely to convince you they had always belonged to the city.