Hunting Museum of the Croatian Hunters Union

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A decision of the Croatian Hunting Federation of 1952 founded the Hunting Museum, with its permanent display from 1953 at Rački 9, and since 1965 in Ulica Vladimira Nazora 63. Using both nature and inspiration, the permanent display conjures up, with educational aids and dioramas, the habitats and life of plants and animals of all kinds of game, of large carnivores, the life of field birds and waterfowl, with a number of stuffed specimens of game from all over the world, including Africa, Canada, Greenland, Mongolia and so on. A unique egg collection of more than 1000 eggs from 350 clutches of birds that nest here, in Europe and even in north Africa. A special feature of interest is the collection of several hundred birds and fossil remains of elks and one giant deer, Megaloceros giganteus from the area of the Croatian river valleys. The museum’s motto is “We preserve nature for the coming youth, the way that hunters have done for years, with expertise, conscientiously and with love!”