Ethnography Museum
Art Nouveau palace of folk costume, crafts and toys, with over eighty-five thousand objects.
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This guide to the Ethnographic Museum in Zagreb asks why a museum would treasure a cheap wooden horse painted bright red. It follows the pilgrim roads north of the city toward Marija Bistrica, and the Zagorje villages where families carved and painted toys for passing travellers. Along the way it stops at Vidovec, one of the earliest toy-making villages, and at the trade-and-crafts palace that now houses the collection. Best heard outside, where you can look up at Rudolf Valdec's sculptures on the facade.
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