Dubrovnik Museums is once again this year participating in the largest international book fair in Croatia, the Interliber International Book Fair, held in Zagreb.

On Saturday, November 16, 2024, from 10:00 to 16:00, Dubrovnik Museums will showcase their rich publishing activities, which include over 100 museum publications, at the stand of the Museum Documentation Centre.

The first printed museum publication in Dubrovnik connected to the history of Dubrovnik Museums dates back to 1876. This was a short guide to the then-permanent exhibition of the Stjepan Skurla Indigenous Museum titled “Cenni storici”, self-published by its author. The history of publishing in Dubrovnik Museums can be traced back to the 1940s. In 1941, the exhibition catalogue “Dubrovnik Maritime Heritage Through the Centuries” was printed, marking the oldest professional publication in Dubrovnik Museums’ publishing. From 1950, the first guides to permanent exhibitions were published: “Guide to the Cultural and Historical Exhibition at the Rector’s Palace” (1950) and “Guide to the Maritime Museum” (1952). In the following decades, more modest exhibition catalogues and various leaflets for permanent exhibitions were published in Croatian, English, French, German, and Italian. From 1954 to 1967, the Maritime Museum published a five-volume series on Dubrovnik's maritime history, titled “Materials for the Maritime History of Dubrovnik”.

Systematic publishing by Dubrovnik Museums began in 2000, with the release of richly illustrated exhibition and collection catalogues, permanent exhibition guides, five volumes of the official Museum journal “Dubrovnik Museums Proceedings”, monographs, and educational materials for children of various ages. Over the past two decades, Dubrovnik Museums have published more than 100 titles in their own editions.