Mimara Museum
Vast private art collection spanning millennia, housed in a neo-Renaissance former school building.
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This guide to the Mimara Museum in Zagreb follows Ante Topić Mimara, the collector whose name is on its walls, back to a winter in Munich just after the Second World War. It starts when he walks into the American depot sorting art the Nazis had looted, claiming to speak for Yugoslavia, and asks what they hold. Along the way you meet a junior curator named Wiltrud Mersmann and a painted Venetian glass wedding cup.
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