The whole art world and only one story: the sculpture "L'Homme qui marche" from the 1961st  Alberto Giacometti was sold at auction Sotheby'su for 104, 6 million, or 65 million pounds, still anonymous buyer, who is the auction house described as "a modest man "

Giacometti's "L'Homme qui marche" has become the most expensive, not only paid for a sculpture in history, but also paid the most expensive works of art, because it is broken down a record that was held by Picasso, "Boy with a pipe." "It was whispering to 35 million pounds to 50 pounds a laugh," telling those who were at the auction.

Now one version of the celebrated "L'Homme qui marche" soon be able to see in Croatia. Namely, in Dubrovnik in the Art Gallery in June, the exhibition will be opened with as many as 180 works of art of the famous sculptor, confirmed the director of this gallery Antun Maračić. He added that this is a difficult exhibition of around 18 million Swiss francs, or 90 million.

By all accounts, this is the biggest project of the exhibition season in Croatia and a great sensation.
The exhibition is organized in collaboration with the Alberto Giacometti Foundation in Zurich and will be opened three months during the summer. In addition to sculptures, will be shown and Giacometti lithographic cycle called "Paris" without end "and will be exposed, and photos of Ernst Scheidegera. This Magnumov photographer was a friend and it Giacometti's  photographed in a number of work, but intimate moments.

Curator of the exhibition was that Franziska Lentuzch in Dubrovnik comes from the Kunsthaus Zurich, under whose jurisdiction the Giacometti Foundation. This is a donation from the artist's wife and his greatest love, Annette, and there are preserved all the important works of art made in all periods of his work, and documentation of his life: the early impact of Cubism and African art, through surrealism, when the sculpture is charged symbolism and eroticism until the turning point and the most important periods in its creation: elongated human figures.

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Dubrovnik Museums
The Dubrovnik Museums came into being on 5th February 1872 with the foundation of the Dubrovnik Regional Museum. The main initiators were the Chamber of Commerce and its chairman Antun Drobac (1810-1882), a pharmacist, natural historian and collector of natural history specimens, who became the lifetime chairman and the first curator of the museum.

The Dubrovnik Regional Museum was the fourth to be set up in Croatia. Housed on the first floor of the Town Hall building, it was inaugurated in April 1873. A valuable natural history collection represented the nucleus of the museum to which a culturological, a historical, and an archaeological collections were soon added.

In 1932, the museum collections were moved to St. John's Castle, while in 1940 the collection of stone monuments and the ethnological collection were relocated to what was formerly Rupe Granary. The cultural history collection (later a separate department) was moved to the Rector's Palace in 1948.

Permanent Collection - Dubrovnik Museums
ARCHAEOLOGY MUSEUM

CULTURAL HISTORY MUSEUM RECTOR'S PALACE

MARITIME MUSEUM

The Marin Drzic Home houses

MODERN HISTORY MUSEUM

ETHNOGRAPHIC MUSEUM

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THE BEST OF DUBROVNIK WITH FIFTY-PERCENT SAVINGS
 
 
In order to additionally promote cultural events and at the same time grant a 50-percent discount, the Town of Dubrovnik is introducing a new tourist product - tourist card ...
that will be available to tourists and visitors from 1st of August.
The daily card with exceptionally convenient prices will allow visiting the town walls of Dubrovnik, as well as museums and major attractions of our tourist destination.
Dear guests, the new Dubrovnik tourist card offers the best of the best with a great discount, which is our contribution to these uncertain recession times. Dubrovnik, the ideal destination for awakening your optimism, by this gesture expresses a warm welcome to all its visitors.

The card allows tourists to have all the attractions and cultural sights available by purchasing one tourist card only. The new Dubrovnik Tourist Card includes admission to museums, galleries, and visit to the town walls and the fortress of Lovrijenac. The daily and the weekly tourist cards are introduced. A daily card will cost 100 Croatian Kuna, and it includes entrances to: Old Town walls, Rector's Palace, Rupe Museum, Maritime Museum, Revelin Fortress, Art Gallery and Marin Držić House. The full price of tickets for all these placesd is 215,00 kn, therefore by purchasing a daily tourist card the user saves more than 50%.
The tourist card project will be developing in the future in such a way as to introduce also a weekly tourist card that will include even more attractions, for example, the Jewish Municipality (by visiting the synagogue), the Catholic Church (the museums), the virtual museum of St.. Clare, Institute for Marine and Coastal Research of the University in Dubrovnik (Aquarium), the Museum of the Croatian Independence War, Reservation on the Island of Lokrum, JP (Public Transport Company) Libertas, public toilet ....

The Tourist Cards can be obtained in following information offices of Dubrovnik Tourist Board:

Tourist Information Office Grad
Široka 1
Tel/fax. 020/323-587