Zagreb City Museum
Former seventeenth-century convent on the old town walls, with prehistoric finds shown where unearthed.
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This guide to the Zagreb City Museum stands you outside the former Poor Clare convent on Opatička Street in Zagreb's Upper Town, a building whose dates refuse to line up. It follows the noble nuns who arrived from Bratislava in the sixteen-forties, the medieval wall and Priest's Tower their builders worked against, and the money that kept the house running until an emperor stepped in. Best heard on the street outside, facing the long convent front.
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