The exhibition has been produced in collaboration with the Ethnographic Museum, Zagreb
The exhibition presents a selection of exhibits from last year's Easter Egg Festival held during the lead-up to Easter in the Ethnographic Museum in Zagreb. Particularly to the fore among them is the oldest Croatian Easter egg, dating to the 15th century, found in archaeological excavations in 2003 in Gudovec by Bjelovar.
Numerous techniques for the decoration of eggs are also presented, including those using wax, the oldest and most widely diffused; the polychrome technique from Slavonia and the Drava valley, monochrome variants from Baranja and two-coloured eggs from Srijem; the technique of scraping with a little knife found in central Croatia and part of Podravina; and the etching technique used in the Drava valley, the area around Bjelovar and part of Slavonia. A quite different technique is that of knitting around the egg, with silk and coloured wools in Slavonia and with cotton thread in the Sava valley.
Exhibition devised by Josip Barlek
Exhibition designed by Lana Milošević Đerek