Museum of Fine Art
Neo-renaissance former city hospital reworked twice more, now galleries of Croatian art from the thirteen hundreds on.
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This guide to the Museum of Fine Art in Split traces the building behind its pale neo-renaissance facade back to 1792, when local builder Petar Kurir raised it as the city's first hospital, a plain ward for fevers and amputations. It follows architect Josip Slade's makeover eighty years later, and a second gutting in the late 1970s that turned the same rooms into a state showcase for Yugoslav history before that regime itself collapsed in 1991. You'll hear how the halls sat half used afterward, and what a renovation finished in 2009 finally handed them over to. Stand in the colonnaded courtyard and count how many different institutions have occupied this one footprint.
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