The opening of this year’s Betina Film Festival is scheduled for Tuesday, Sept 1, and it goes until Saturday, Sept 5. Visitors will be able to watch short films at as many as four locations in 12 projection blocks all around Betina! Betina Film Festival (BAFF) is a five-day film festival of Croatian and International film being held for the third time in Betina. The festival is focused on promoting Croatian cinematography, presentation of International selection of short films, education and film art research. The competition program, divided into international and domestic category, shows original, diverse and quality films by Croatian, foreign and, since 2019, Croatian young authors. The festival consists of BAFF Domaćica and BAFF International – live screenings and short film competitions of…

Dear friends, we are pleased to invite you to join us in the 5th anniversary celebration of the opening of the Betina Museum of  Wooden Shipbuilding. The program will be held on Friday, August 14 at 8 pm at the main square in Betina. Come and enjoy a relaxing atmosphere with some good music, sails light show of our open-air museum and the taste of our birthday cake. We are looking forward to your arrival! The event will be realized in cooperation with the Municipality of Tisno.

Find something for yourself in our programme and visit us this August!

The Evening of Traditional Crafts and Skills, which we organize together with KUD ZORA Betina and many of our volunteers, took place in a somewhat more modest edition due to the current epidemiological situation, but no less interesting than in previous years. This year, we put the emphasis on the household skills – we washed clothes in a hot water and demonstrated washing clothes using the traditional wooden washboard – many of our visitors showed great skill in this discipline! Thanx to our Martina Sladić who organized the move of the traditional kitchen armoir which greatly contributed to the authentic presentation of the traditional get together at the table. The Evening of Old Crafts was also participated by Esma Šandrić with her playful collection of…

The Museum of Wooden Shipbuilding wishes to inform all our friends and followers that we are reopening to our regular working hours as of Monday, April 27 th! Individual visits will be allowed to view the exhibition adhering to epidemiological measures, with protective masks and gloves. Under current measures, the maximum number of group visitors will be limited to 10, also with strict adherence to hygiene and physical distance measures. Thank you all for your cooperation!

INFORMATION TO VISITORS In order to comply with disease control restrictions implemented by World Health Organisation, relevant governmental and health authorities due to circumstances with the COVID-19 situation Betina Museum of Wooden Shipbuilding will be closed for visitors in the next period. You can reach us via the following e-mail: muzej@mbdb.hr, and you can follow us on our Facebook and Instagram page⛵ #ostanidoma #stayathome  

Last night we opened the conceptual exhibition: The dowry – Belongings of an Imaginary Lady Inhabitant of the Island by the author Sanja Mrša Vukman. Belongings of the imaginary lady inhabitants of the island is the sum of objects of personal use that have a certain autobiographical line. The origins of this exhibition are inspired by the real touch of women who lived on the islands before the author and the world of wooden ships. The author is inspired by original experiences, purity of natural, local materials in her quest to understand the area. The author strives to build healthy, sustainable communities. The opening night of the exhibition went relaxing, and reached a large number of visitors who enjoyed the local flavors and aromas of…