November 27, 2019 – The Zagreb 80s Museum, in cooperation with the Zagreb Tourist Board, officially opened its doors on the Chinese market as the Shangai 80s – Zagreb 80s museum.
HRTurizam reports that in the center of Shanghai, at the Cool Docks location near Bund, one of the most attractive pedestrian zones in the city, the exhibition will run until February 29, 2020, and will then tour all major Chinese cities over ten years.
“After a very dynamic Year of Culture and Tourism, in which Croatian and Chinese citizens learned a lot about each other through cultural projects and tourism promotion, its official closure in China is marked by an exhibition of the 80s that will show us how much both societies have changed in the last thirty years. Croatia and China are, and I will quote the President of the National Council of the People’s Republic of China, Li Keqiang, in a diamond period, in relations that are moving forward and which, thanks to such intensity, bring us closer together, not only politically and economically, but in the general social and cultural sense,” said Dario Mihelin, Ambassador of the Republic of Croatia to the People’s Republic of China.
Proof of this is the number of Chinese tourists visiting Croatia, which is expected to reach half a million tourists by the end of this year. In 2018, guests from China achieved 37% more arrivals (57,861) and 43% more overnight stays (81,027), placing 5th overall and 7th overall in Zagreb for overnights. Good results have been achieved this year as well, and in the first ten months, Chinese guests climbed to 4th place in arrivals and 5th place in registered nights.
“After the Museum of Broken Relationships, the Museum of Illusions and the Thematic Exhibition of the Museum of Arts and Crafts, this is another museum in Zagreb presented in Shanghai in collaboration with the Zagreb Tourist Board and the Zagreb Museum in the 1980s. We support this unique project and believe that the exhibition of the 1980s will present and promote the tourist offer of the city of Zagreb in China in an interesting way. Our city has seen a steady increase in the number of Chinese tourists, and as 2019 is the Croatian-Chinese Year of Culture and Tourism, we believe that the said project will contribute to the consolidation of tourism, cultural and friendly ties between the two cities, Zagreb and Shanghai, whose friendship will mark 40 years next year,” said Zagreb Tourist Board Director Martina Bienenfeld.
To conclude, it is interesting to note that 2020 will be a significant year for improving mutual relations, as next year marks the 40th anniversary of friendship between Zagreb and Shanghai.
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