Ferdinand Budicki Automobile Museum (Croatian: Muzej automobila "Ferdinand Budicki") is an automobile museum in Zagreb, Croatia, the first one in the country.[1] It is located on Zaprešićka 2, Jablanovec as a part of the Westgate shopping center. It was opened on 3 July 2013 (10 years ago) (2013-07-03), and features more than 100 antique and classic cars, motorcycles and bicycles, as well as several thousand photos from family albums of first Croatian drivers.[2][3]
The museum took part in the 2015 Museum Night, bringing in 14,500 visitors.[2] On 17 April 2015, it started to organise a weekly car exhibition on Britain Square in the city centre.[2][8] Its first non-permanent exhibition lasted from September 1 to November 1 and featured six Citroën 2CV cars in honour of the 65th anniversary of 2CV.[9]
Opening hoursedit
The museum entrance fee is 30 kuna (around €4) for adults and 20 kuna (around €2.60) for children, as it is privately funded. It is open seven days a week.
Change of locationedit
In 2018, the museum moved from the former Pluto factory in Zavrtnica neighborhood to Westgate Shopping City, a large shopping mall north-west of Zagreb in Zaprešić.[10][11]
It closed its doors on the original site in 2018 due to a lack of public funding and disagreements between mayor Milan Bandić and manager Valentino Valjak.[12][13][14]
Referencesedit
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^"Muzej automobila Ferdinand Budicki otvara svoja vrata" (in Croatian). Tportal.hr. 4 July 2013. Retrieved 11 August 2015.
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^Frlan Gašparović, Irena (15 July 2013). "Zavirite u Muzej automobila "Ferdinand Budicki"!" (in Croatian). Novi list. Retrieved 11 August 2015.
^"Budicki at Britanac". Zagreb Tourist Board. 5 May 2015. Retrieved 11 August 2015.
^"Muzej automobila Ferdinand Budicki postao pravi ljetni hit" (in Croatian). Večernji list. 21 August 2013. Retrieved 11 August 2015.
^"Ferdinand Budicki Automobile Museum (In Your Pocket: Essential City Guides)". 8 April 2023. Archived from the original on 8 April 2023.
^"Muzej Budicki na novoj lokaciji". magazin.hrt.hr (in Croatian). Croatian Radiotelevision. 3 April 2018. Archived from the original on 19 January 2021. Retrieved 4 April 2018.
^"Muzej automobila Ferdinand Budicki" (in Croatian). Ferdinand Budicki Automobile Museum. Retrieved 4 April 2018.
^"(FOTO) Grad i država okrenuli im leđa: Zatvara se Muzej automobila Ferdinand Budicki - Zagreb.info" [(PHOTO) City and state turn their backs on them: Ferdinand Budicki Car Museum closes - Zagreb.info] (in Croatian). Archived from the original on 2 April 2023.
^Tatić, Iva (18 January 2018). "Ferdinand Budicki Automobile Museum in Zagreb Closing Down at the End of February?". Archived from the original on 2 April 2023.