Museum of Fine Arts in Osijek

The Museum of Fine Arts is an art museum in Osijek, Croatia. It was established in 1954. History The history of the Museum of Fine Arts in Osijek is linked to the Museum of Slavonia, from which a collection of paintings was separated that will form the basis of the future Gallery of Fine Arts, i.e. the current Museum. This collection was created especially after the Second World War. war, by taking over the collections from the heritage of manorial castles in the Osijek area, and even then it had close to 500 works, among them such high, European artistic values. Soon, the need to separate the. About the building The building of the Museum of Fine Arts is located on European Avenue, a representative Art Nouveau and historicist architectural and urban ensemble of the city of Osijek. The construction of this urban development, which connects the Upper Town and the Citadel, began in the last decades of the 19th century - in the period from 1883 to 1900, the southern side of the then Chavrakova Street (today's European Avenue) was built, where representative historicist free-standing residential buildings with front gardens were erected - among others, the.