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Split Ethnographic Museum
Former craft-school teaching collection of Dalmatian lace, embroidery, and folk costume tucked inside the old palace quarter.
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About this audio guide
This guide to the Split Ethnographic Museum starts inside a cramped 1906 classroom, where Vienna-trained engineer Kamilo Tončić set his students copying real Dalmatian lace and embroidery instead of textbook patterns. It follows how his teaching collection, shawls, aprons and the famous lace of the island of Pag, grew from classroom aid into a public museum, and how empire and city politics each took a turn managing it. The trade Tončić was trying to build now sits preserved under glass, one pattern at a time.
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