November the 11th, 2026 – Zagreb Airport has an attraction that has won yet another prestigious award. The Museum Zone took home silver and has done very well in attracting passengers.
The Museum Zone at Franjo Tuđman Airport, a commendable project realised in cooperation between the Croatian History Museum and Zagreb International Airport, has won the silver the! Award in the multi-stakeholder and multi-sectoral cooperation category at the KoMference of the Croatian Public Relations Association. Poslovni reports that this is otherwise the second professional recognition for that particular project, which in the spring of this year took home the Grand PRix.
The Croatian History Museum, located in Zagreb’s Upper Town (Gornji grad) palaces, was severely damaged in the March 2020 earthquake, because of which it could no longer use its space for exhibiting its museum holdings. On the initiative of the Val Group, cooperation between the Croatian History Museum and Zagreb International Airport began. It was then that the Museum Zone was formally established, within which the exhibition “Stars of Croatian History – The Sky Is Their Limit. Get to Know Them!” was officially opened.
The exhibition presents 24 important figures from throughout Croatian history who, with their work spanning four areas – science, culture, politics and society, and sport – contributed to the development of Croatia and left a mark on the European and global level. “We’re pleased that a project that connected a heritage institution with Zagreb International Airport has been awarded and that this has been recognised as a very good model of communication,” said Minister of Culture and Media Nina Obuljen Koržinek at the KoMference.
Director of the Croatian History Museum Matea Brstilo Rešetar emphasised that when they entered that project they wanted to prove that heritage can meet the public even outside museum walls. According to her words, the Museum Zone has become the second most visited exhibition space in all of Croatia. President of the Management Board of Zagreb International Airport Huseyin Bahadir Bedir said that passengers have been given the opportunity to get to know Croatian history and cultural heritage in an interesting and accessible way, turning the time spent at the airport into an educational experience.
