‘In Zagreb, it’s different’ - museums celebrate hangovers, illusions and broken relationships

Zagreb is home to a spread of small, quirky and thought-provoking museums set just a short walk from one another

Zagreb during blue hour

Jamie Ball

What is a museum?

Like me, you may have grown up assuming museums needed to be institutional, they must be stiff, spacious and state-run, staffed by sour, stern, dandruff-ridden curmudgeons. That they were there to educate and edify, rather than a bit of craic dreamt up after waking on some head-thumping, Alka-Seltzer Sunday, with a mysterious bike pedal in your pocket.