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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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Lazius, Wolfgang (1561) “Ducatus Carniolae et Histriae una cum Marcha Windorum”. Vienna: Michael Zimmermann. NSK Map Collection.

“Heritage at Hand at CroAtrium” opening soon with 16th-century cartographic treasures in the spotlight

14 April 2025, 12.00, CroAtrium

On 14 April 2025 (12.00, Conference Hall Judita), the National and University Library in Zagreb (NSK) will open Heritage at Hand at CroAtrium, a 2025 programme aimed at the popularisation of Croatian cultural heritage which the Library preserves as part of Croatica, Croatia’s national library collection. Starting with a lecture by historian and geographer Dr Dubravka Mlinarić from the Croatian Institute for Migration Research (IMIN), the Heritage at Hand programme will first spotlight the invaluable 16th-century cartographic material documenting Croatian statehood (Dokumentiranje hrvatske državnosti u radovima srednjoeuropskih kartografa 16. stoljeća).

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Members of LADO, Croatia’s world-famous folk dance ensemble.

NSK Day 2025: Celebrating 418 years of existence and major achievements in 2024

21 February 2025

Together with many distinguished guests, the representatives of Croatia’s prominent cultural and academic institutions, our partners and friends we have celebrated this year’s National and University Library in Zagreb Day, happy and proud to be part of more than four centuries of tradition. The celebration, which brought together the representatives of the University of Zagreb and other Croatian universities and research institutions, the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts (CASA), leading library professionals and former NSK directors general and other NSK staff, opened with the addresses by the Envoy of the Croatian Minister of Science, ...

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Visitors at the 2024 NSK Doors Open Days programme.

NSK Doors Open Days 2025

19 & 20 February 2025

Visit the National and University Library in Zagreb (NSK) on 19 and 20 February 2025 as part of this year’s NSK Doors Open Days programme and find out everything about the invaluable treasures of Croatian and world cultural and scientific heritage preserved in our collections. Traditionally ushering in the celebration of the National and University Library in Zagreb Day, NSK Day, this year's NSK Doors Open Days programme will spotlight NSK’s manuscript holdings. Also, it will offer special guided tours of the Library and an interesting workshop programme. The tours, which everyone interested in need to apply for

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Visual identity of “Supercharged by AI” project.

NSK to host “Supercharged by AI” exhibition, addressing artificial intelligence-related challenges 

29 January – 14 February 2025

Visit Supercharged by AI, an exhibition innovatively addressing challenges resulting from the advance of artificial intelligence, which the National and University Library in Zagreb (NSK) will be hosting from 29 January to 14 February 2025. Learn more about the impact that artificial intelligence can have on politics and how it may be used to exacerbate malpractices such as online harassment, online scams and online-created bias. Take the opportunity to interact with this innovative exhibition’s content to become better informed and more aware of the global developments brought about by the swift rise of artificial intelligence and thus become readier to adapt to the contemporary rapidly changing digital landscape.   Bringing complex AI-related concepts and issues closer to average citizens the exhibition was created ...

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Antiphonarium Romanum (1725)_NSK Manuscripts and Old Books Collection.

Celebrate with us NSK Day 2025!

21 February 2025, 12.00

On 21 February 2025, starting at 12.00, the National and University Library in Zagreb (NSK) will host the celebration of this year’s Library’s Day, marked in memory of the printing on 22 February 1483 of a ‘Missal by the Law of the Roman Court’ (Misal po zakonu rimskoga dvora; Missale Romanum glagolitice), the first book in the Croatian language. NSK’s logotype, the letter of the angular Glagolitic alphabet Iže, i.e. the transliterated Latin letter ‘I’, has been taken over precisely from this historic missal, the oldest incunabulum in the Croatian language and the first book in Europe not printed in the Latin script, the date of whose publication since 2019 ...

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Material exhibited as part of “The Golden Age of the Fountain Pen in NSK Manuscripts” exhibition.

“The Golden Age of the Fountain Pen in NSK Manuscripts” exhibition on view by 15 December

3 – 15 December 2024

On 3 December 2024, the National and University Library in Zagreb (NSK) hosted the opening The Golden Age of the Fountain Pen in NSK Manuscripts exhibition, the final event of the Library’s programme marking the 130th anniversary of the founding of the Library’s Manuscripts and Old Books Collection, NSK’s oldest special collection. Organised with the support of the Croatian Ministry of Culture and Media and remaining on view by 15 December 2024, the exhibition spotlights the Collection’s treasures such as the autograph manuscripts of the world-famous Croatian writer

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2024 NSK exhibition of prints by Dražen Trogrlić.

“Galactic dance”: Exhibition of prints by Dražen Trogrlić on view at NSK by 19 Dec 2024

11 – 19 December 2024

On 11 December 2024, the National and University Library in Zagreb (NSK) hosted the presentation of a print portfolio by an award-wining Croatian painter, sculptor and graphic artist Dražen Trogrlić (Galaktički ples / Galactic dance) which will be displayed in the Library’s grand lobby by 19 December.  Published by NSK, the portfolio’s 15 prints convey the author’s vision inspired by the immense and infinite galactic expanses. The presentation opened with a welcome address by the NSK Director General Professor Ivanka Stričević and an introduction by the Head of the NSK Print Collection ...

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Participants in the 2024 Croatian Book Month quiz awards ceremony.

“Big Small Stories”: Croatian Book Month 2024 closes with its reading promotion quiz awards ceremony

15 November 2024

On 15 November 2024, the National and University Library in Zagreb (NSK) hosted the awards ceremony of Big Small Stories, this year’s edition of the national online quiz aimed at the promotion of reading and held as part of the Croatian Book Month, Croatia’s annual national programme successfully spotlighting books and reading for almost thirty years. The awards ceremony also marked the closing of the Month’s this year’s edition, themed I will listen to your story…. Organised by the Zagreb City Libraries public ...

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The visual identity of the “Dragi Lastane!” exhibition.

Exhibition marking 70 years of Croatia’s iconic teenage magazine on view at NSK by 22 Nov 2024

5 – 22 November 2024

By 22 November 2024, the National and University Library in Zagreb (NSK) will be hosting the exhibition taking place as part of the 2024 Croatian Book Month as a way of marking the 70th anniversary of the publication of the first issue of Modra lasta, Croatia’s longest-running teenage magazine (Dragi Lastane!). The exhibition, which NSK organised in cooperation with the Školska knjiga publishing company, Croatian School Museum and Croatian Association of School Librarians, opened on 5 ...

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