Dubrovnik Region Museums & Galleries

The Dubrovnik Museums came into being on 5th February 1872 with the foundation of the Dubrovnik Regional Museum. The main initiators were the Chamber of Commerce and its chairman Antun Drobac (1810-1882), a pharmacist, natural historian and collector of natural history specimens, who became the lifetime chairman and the first curator of the museum.

The Dulčić/Masle/Pulitika Gallery was opened in a house at Držićeva poljana 1, which after the Homeland War was renovated by the American government, intending it to serve as a memorial to Ronald Brown, American Commerce Secretary, who died in an air crash flying in to Dubrovnik in 1996. It was opened as a venue where the public could appreciate the works of three important Dubrovnik artists – Ivo Dulčić, Antun Masle and Đuro Pulitika.