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The visual identity of the fifth NSK’s 2026 “Heritage at Hand at CroAtrium” event, featuring a portrait of Ruđer Bošković.

Sixth “Heritage at Hand at CroAtrium” 2026 event spotlighting Ruđer Bošković’s first work

20 October 2026. 13.00

On 20 October 2026, the National and University Library in Zagreb (NSK) is organising the sixth event of its this year’s Heritage at Hand at CroAtrium programme. Focusing on another gem of the NSK collections, it is spotlighting the legacy of Croatia’s 18th-century genius Ruđer Bošković (Ruggero Giuseppe Boscovich). Marking the 315th anniversary of the birth of the renowned Croatian mathematician, physicist, astronomer, philosopher, diplomat and poet and 290 years since the publication of his first work, the event is organised as one of the programmes with which the Library will ...

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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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Segment of an invitation for a NSK presentation-and-exhibition programme featuring the oeuvre of Anton Cetín.

Exhibition and art monograph presentation featuring works by Croatian-Canadian painter Anton Cetín

15 September 2026

On 15 September 2026, the National and University Library in Zagreb (NSK) will host a special programme showcasing the works of a Croatian-Canadian painter and printmaker Anton Cetín. Starting at 12.00 in the Library’s side lobby, the programme will mark Cetín’s 90th birthday, as part of which he will donate to the NSK Print Collection ten of his drawings. 90 for 90 The programme’s first part will focus on Cetín’s celebratory trilingual art monograph, published this year in Zagreb in symbolic 90 copies and bringing 90 drawings which Cetín created ...

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Items from the NSK collections exhibited as part of the NSK’s 2026 Miroslav Krleža Festival programme.

Miroslav Krleža’s manuscripts in NSK collections presented as part of 2026 Miroslav Krleža Festival

3 July 2026

On 3 July 2026, the National and University Library in Zagreb (NSK) hosted the 15th edition of the Miroslav Krleža Festival, celebrating the legacy of one of Croatia’s greatest 20th-century writers and thinkers and taking place in Zagreb and Koprivnica by 10 July 2026. As the Festival’s longtime partner, the Library organised its traditional get-together, whose programme includes the exhibition of Krleža’s manuscripts preserved in the NSK Manuscripts and Rare Books Collection. A unique look into Krleža’...

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The visual identity of the 2026 Miroslav Krleža Festival.

NSK’s 2026 Miroslav Krleža Festival get-together and exhibition

3 July 2026, 12.00

The programme with which the National and University Library in Zagreb (NSK) traditionally joins the Miroslav Krleža Festival, commemorating a giant of Croatia’s 20th-century literature and one of its greatest intellectual figures, will be held in the Library’s side lobby on 3 July 2026. The Festival’s 15th edition, taking place in Zagreb from 28 June to 7 July and on 10 July in Koprivnica, will again present a rich programme, featuring events ranging from roundtables and debates to exhibitions and stagings of several Krleža’...

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Items exhibited as part of the NSK exhibition on Marin Getaldić.

Exhibition on Croatian 17th-century mathematician and physicist Marin Getaldić on view by 26 June    

11 – 26 June 2026

The National and University Library in Zagreb (NSK) is presenting Marin Getaldić – 400 years later (Marin Getaldić – 400 godina poslije), an exhibition spotlighting the legacy of Croatia’s greatest mathematician and physicist at the turn of the 17th century. After a welcome address by the NSK Director General Dr Ivanka Stričević at the exhibition’s opening, a Fellow of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts (HAZU) and the Head of the Academy’s Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science Vjekoslav Jerolimov gave a brief overview of Getaldić’s achievements and their relevance to both Croatian and European science. The Head of the

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Participants in the fourth “Heritage at Hand at CroAtrium” event.

“Heritage at Hand at CroAtrium” exhibition featuring archive of doyen of Croatian visual poetry Borben Vladović on view by 29 May

21 – 29 May 2026

Items from the archive of the doyen of Croatian visual poetry Borben Vladović preserved in Croatia’s national library collection are on view at an exhibition opened as part of the fourth event of the National and University Library in Zagreb’s (NSK) 2026 Heritage at Hand at CroAtrium programme. Apart from Vladović’s own works of visual poetry, also displayed at the exhibition are visual poems by other authors, both Croatian and foreign, including works of the so-called mail art, artist’s books, samizdat publications as well as other written and printed works of neo-avant-garde poetry. Remaining on view in the Library’s ...

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The visual identity of NSK's and HAZU's 2026 exhibition on Marin Getaldić.

Exhibition spotlighting the legacy of Marin Getaldić, Croatian mathematician ahead of his time

11 – 26 June 2026

From 11 to 26 June 2026, the National and University Library in Zagreb (NSK) will be showing Marin Getaldić – 400 years later (Marin Getaldić – 400 godina poslije), an exhibition dedicated to Croatia’s greatest mathematician and physicist and the pride of Dubrovnik. Prepared in consideration of the fact that while Getaldić’s name is widely known among the Croatian public, the exact extent of his contribution to science is still insufficiently recognised, the exhibition will feature the original copies of the great scholar’s works preserved in NSK’s collections.

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The visual identity of the fourth NSK’s 2026 “Heritage at Hand at CroAtrium” event.

Meeting doyen of Croatian visual poetry Borben Vladović as part of 2026 “Heritage at Hand at CroAtrium”

21 May 2026, 12.00

Starting on 21 May 2026, the National and University Library in Zagreb (NSK) will be hosting a presentation showcasing the personal archive of the doyen of Croatian visual poetry Borben Vladović preserved as part of Croatia’s national library collection. Entitled Meeting a Poet – Borben Vladović, the presentation is being organised as the fourth event of this year’s edition of the Library’s Heritage at Hand at CroAtrium programme. After an introduction in which literary theorist Branko Čegec will interview Vladović, the event participants will have the opportunity to see an exhibition of selected items ...

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The visual identity of an exhibition celebrating NSK’s 30 years of organising the Croatian national best book design competition.

NSK hosting “Best Book Design from all over the World” exhibition

1 July – 31 August 2026

From 1 July to 31 August 2026, the National and University Library in Zagreb (NSK) will be hosting the Best Book Design from all over the World exhibition, featuring the winning titles selected as part of the eponymous international competition organised by the German Book Art Foundation (Stiftung Buchkunst). Marking 30 years since NSK took over the organisation of the national best book design competition (Hrvatska lijepa knjiga), taking place as part of the Best Book Design competition, and the 60th anniversary of the

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