MUSÉE FRANCISCAIN JOZO-KRIŽIĆ

Established in 2013, this museum (Franjevački Muzej Fra Jozo Križić) is housed in the complex of the Franciscan monastery in Tomislavgrad, founded in the 18th century, near the Catholic church of St. Nicholas Tavelić, built in the 1930s and dedicated to the first Croatian saint (14th century). The museum is named after the Franciscan monk Jozo Križić (1951-1993), who collected 3,000 objects that are now displayed here in a former catechism built in 1988. It consists of five parts. The liturgical collection includes rich chasubles and a chalice from 1720. The ethnographic collection consists of traditional clothing, furniture, agricultural tools, a reconstructed bedroom, and gold and silver objects, including beautiful filigree jewelry (earrings, pendants, etc.). We also discover an African collection, unique in the country. It was formed in 1971 with the establishment of a Catholic mission of monks from Tropolje and Herzegovina in Congo: masks, fetish statues, musical instruments, precious objects made of ivory and malachite, weapons, tools ... The archaeological collection includes objects dating from the Neolithic to the nineteenth century: jewelry, tools, weapons, fragments of mosaics, coins, etc. Finally, the Nevjestić Gallery houses lithographs by the French painter, graphic artist and poet Virgilije Nevjestić (1935-2009), a native of Tomislavgrad, who lived for nearly forty years in the Montparnasse district of Paris.