After we’d visited the Church of St Donatus during our exploration of Zadar we headed across the open space of the fabulous Roman Forum to a modern building sympathetically designed with the general medieval style of the area in mind and entered. This was the city’s archaeological museum and we would end up enjoying a long look around its admittedly fairly small area because of the amount and variety and quality of the artifacts on display.
This post will simply serve to show some phone photos of some of the exhibits you could expect to see should you visit Zadar, and if you’ve a passing interest in ancient history or if you’ve gained some interest just from seeing what’s out in the public spaces outside the museum, then this is a museum that’s well worth a look around. It’s very cheap to enter but, at least when we were there (and likely because it was cheap and wanted to avoid card transaction fees), it was a cash only establishment, whether for the entrance fee or any of the souvenirs in the gift shop. As we only had a little physical money on us this limited what we’d have liked to do which would have been to buy something in addition to looking around. That’s us, though, and I know that other people – like the museum – are still positively twentieth century about the whole money situation.
From a window on the first floor of the museum we could see the forum outside, the church and tower, and people enjoying the area, and you can see for yourself just how utterly beautiful Zadar was on the day of our visit.
