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The visual identity of the “Passing on Ideas through Time: Three Decades of the Glass Treasure Trove of Heritage” exhibition.

NSK celebrating three decades of its modern home

28 May – 18 June 2025

On 28 May 2025, the National and University Library in Zagreb (NSK) hosted a special programme marking the 30th anniversary of relocating to its current building. Bringing together many distinguished figures from Croatia’s academic and cultural circles, the programme included the opening of the exhibition thematising the three decades of the Library’s work in its modern home and NSK’s importance as Croatia’s national knowledge, culture and heritage hub. In their addresses, the NSK Director General Professor Ivanka Stričević, President of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts (HAZU), one of NSK’s current building’s architects and head of the building’s construction ...

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Visual identity of the 2025 Croatian Book Night.

“Reading is a must – no matter what (where, when and how)!”: Croatian Book Night 2025 opens at NSK

23 April 2025

On 23 April 2025, the National and University Library in Zagreb (NSK) hosted the opening of the 2025 Croatian Book Night, whose over 1,100 programmes in the upcoming days will bring together as many as 330 institutions on more than 260 locations all across Croatia. The Library once again hosted the opening of Croatia’s annual national programme marking World Book and Copyright Day and Croatian Book Day (22 April). NSK Director General Professor Ivanka Stričević, Director of the Zagreb City Libraries Dr Sunčica Ostoić and ...

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Some of the cartographic treasures displayed as part of the Library’s „Heritage at Hand at CroAtrium” programme.

“Heritage at Hand at CroAtrium” opens with medieval maps of Croatia in the spotlight

14 April 2025

On 14 April 2025, the National and University Library in Zagreb (NSK) launched Heritage at Hand at CroAtrium, its 2025 programme aimed at the popularisation of Croatian cultural heritage which it 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 programme first spotlighted the invaluable cartographic material documenting Croatian statehood. CroAtrium – bringing Croatica closer to everyone Immersing the programme participants in the fascinating world of 16th-century cartographers Lazarus Secretarius and

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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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