Museum of Croatian Archaeological Monuments was founded in Knin in 1893. After the 2nd World War it was moved to Split, and from 1967 it’s been located in today’s building situated in the neighbourhood. Meje at the bottom of Marjan. Eminent Croatian archaeologist and long time manager of CAM Stjepan Gunjača is mostly meritorious for today’s constitution and organization of the museum and for the building’s maintenance. Therefore, in his honour, the street where the museum is situated got his name.

The City Museum was founded in 1946 in Split. It is located in the north east part of the Diocletian’s palace, in medieval buildings’ complex in the middle of which the late gothic palace of the family Papalić is situated, the project and work of domestic master Juraj Dalmatinac but also the meeting place of the renaissance literary circle from Split led by Marko Marulić. This building houses the City Museum guarding the works of art and documentation which is important for the study of town’s development.

Ethnographic museum was founded in Split in 1910. The museum collection which is full of rare artefacts shows ethnography of the whole Dalmatia. Very rare most typical Adriatic national costumes are exhibited, out of which some stand out for their rich embroidery, and others for their specific white embroidery or even lace-work.

Croatian Maritime Museum is mainly interested in the maritime heritage of the eastern Adriatic coast. It collects models of different ships, arms and other items connected with sea battles of our nations. In its fund, the museum has also the collections of former Military-Maritime Museum of the Yugoslavian Navy, i.e. of Military-Maritime Museum of the Croatian Navy, and numerous items which were collected later.

In Scientific Museum there are collections of birds, turtles, sea vertebrates, invertebrates and similar. It is a permanent exhibition of Malacological collection “Bakotić” which was donated by the homonymous family to the town of Split after 20 years of collecting and research. There are around 1 000 exhibits from the Adriatic and 2 000 from other world seas.

Art Gallery is an extraordinary national and cultural value. Its fund counts over 3 200 works (paintings, sculptures, drawings, graphics, tapestries,…) It was founded in 1931 and at the end of the last century it got its own domicile premises in the building located in front of the northern wall of the Diocletian’s Palace. The ones who initiated the foundation of this institution and its main originators were the famous Croatian archaeologist don Frane Bulić, the greatest Split painter of the 20th century Emanuel Vidović and Ivo Tartaglia, long time major of Split.

Ivan Meštrović is undoubtedly one of the most prominent Croatian artists of the 20th century. Born in the mountain region in the vicinity of Split, after primary schooling he went to Vienna where his enormous talent was noticed and where he took in many art trends of that time like secession. After he had become worldly known in Paris, London, Rome, which brought him the friendship with the “great” master Rodin he moved to Split from where he went to America in the war period where he died in 1962. Between the two world wars he created his artistic works, painted in his characteristic way, leaving an extraordinary mark in Croatian culture.