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…

The presentation of the Guide to the Permanent Exhibition of the Betina Museum of Wooden Shipbuilding will be held on December 10, 2019 at 7.00 pm at the Visitors Center in Betina. The Guide will be presented by Jadran Kale, head of the authoring team of the museum concept of the Betina Museum of Wooden Shipbuilding, and Kate Šikić Čubrić, editor of the Permanent Exhibition Guide. KUD Zora Betina will perform in the musical part of the evening. Betina Museum of Wooden Shipbuilding was founded in response to long-standing aspirations of the inhabitants of Betina to preserve centuries of knowledge on traditional wooden shipbuilding, which greatly marked and shaped the town’s identity. Shipbuilding has been continuously evolving in Betina since the mid-18th century. The number…