Mimara Museum
Façade of the building on Roosvelt's Square | |
| Established | July 17, 1987 |
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| Location | Roosevelt Square 5, Zagreb, Croatia |
| Type | Art museum |
| Visitors | 101,671 (2019) |
| Founder | Ante Topić Mimara |
| Director | Lada Ratković-Bukovčan |
| Curator | Milica Japundžić, Slaven Perović, Lada Ratković-Bukovčan, Bruno Šeper, Iva Firm, Krešimir Juraga |
| Public transit access | tram No. 12, 13, 14 and 17 tram stop: Roosevelt Square |
| Website | www.mimara.hr |
The Mimara Museum (Croatian: Muzej Mimara) is an art museum in the city of Zagreb, Croatia, opened on July 17, 1987. It is situated on Roosevelt Square, housing the collection by Wiltrud and Ante Topić Mimara.
The museum contains over 3,750 objects, including Ptolemaic glassware from Alexandria, jade and ivory Qing-dynasty ornaments, 14th-century wooden crosses encrusted with semiprecious stones, and paintings attributed to many artists such as Caravaggio, Rembrandt, Bosch, Velázquez, Goya, Renoir and Degas. According to art specialists like Thomas Hoving, and Federico Zeri, the vast majority of those artworks is fake.