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Participants in the 2026 NSK escape room event.

NSK escape room event 2026 gathers famous literary detectives in one place

2 October 2026

Marking International Escape Room Day 2026, the National and University Library in Zagreb (NSK) once again became a scene of an exciting investigation. The Library’s third escape room event, entitled The Mystery of the Missing Manuscript and organised as a sequel to its successful cooperation with the Fox in a Box company, brought together some 500 lovers of riddles, thrilled to have been assisted in their perplexing search by some of the most famous literary detectives. Croatian literary detectives part of the elite investigation squad While Sherlock Holmes reminded the event participants of the significance of crucial clues in the details everyone tends to overlook, Robert Langdon led them ...

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The visual identity of the 2025 NSK escape room event.

ZOOBookathon: NSK 2025 escape room exploration of fascinating fauna in NSK collections

23 April 2025, 17.00 – 21.00 (final start time: 20.00)

On 23 April 2025 (17.00 – 21.00), the National and University Library in Zagreb (NSK) will organise its 2025 escape room event. Prepared as part of this year’s edition of the Croatian Book Night, the programme will offer its participants a unique opportunity to explore the fascinating animal world hiding in the Library’s collections. Register for free! After the Library’s successful 2024 escape room programme, which spotlighted the 150th anniversary of the birth of Ivana Brlić...

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Participants in the escape room event held at the National and University Library in Zagreb as a way of marking the 150th anniversary of the birth of the famed Croatian children’s author Ivana Brlić-Mažuranić.

Nearly 500 adventure seekers mark the 150th anniversary of the birth of Croatia’s six-time nominee for the Nobel Prize Ivana Brlić-Mažuranić

19 April 2024

On 19 April 2024, the National and University Library in Zagreb (NSK) hosted an escape room event which it jointly organised with the Fox in a Box company to mark the 150th anniversary of the birth of Ivana Brlić-Mažuranić (1874-1938), the author of the iconic works of Croatian children’s literature and a six-time nominee for the Nobel Prize for Literature. Solving puzzles, almost 500 participants in this exciting game had the opportunity to find out many interesting details about the life of this great Croatian writer and delve into the fascinating world of her fairy tales. Through this one-of-a-kind programme, the participants also ...

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