We are very happy today! This is how the British magazine TravelMag writes about our museum, which has been included in the list of the top 20 European maritime museums: “Wooden shipbuilding is a way to meet the local community. Betina, a small harbour on the Croatian island of Murter, holds this traditional craft particularly…
Exhibition: “Modrave on Old Maps”
This Saturday, September 23rd, at 7:30 PM, we are opening the exhibition “Modrave on Old Maps” by author Kristijan Juran. The exhibition is the result of research from the scientific project “Modrave – Cultural Landscape in Historical Perspective,” organized by the University of Zadar since 2021. The project is dedicated to researching the dynamics of…
Exhibition opening: Shipbuilders’ Wives
In the upcoming days of the Betina shipyard, on August 14th, we will open our exhibition “Shipbuilders’ Wives”. This exhibition emphasizes the role of women in shipbuilding during the second half of the 20th century – a period of the greatest social changes in Betina on the island of Murter. The exhibition highlights the involvement…
Exhibition opening: Graphics by Marko Ramljak
Exhibition “Graphics” by Marko Ramljak will be set up on Thursday, July 27, 2023. Marko Ramljak was born in 1984 in Zadar, where he completed his secondary education at the Franjo Petrić Natural Sciences and Mathematics Gymnasium in 2003. He graduated in 2017 from the Graphic Department of the Academy of Fine Arts in Široki…
Maritime Heritage of Preko
On Sunday, July 2nd, we opened the exhibition “Maritime Heritage of Preko” in Preko on the island of Ugljan. The exhibition was created in collaboration with the Tourist Board of Preko, the Municipality of Preko, and the Public Open University “Dom na žalu”. The exhibition provides insight into the historical, geographical, and social circumstances that…
Modrave – in the Footsteps of Labourers
On Sunday, June 25th, at 8:00 PM, we will open our exhibition “Modrave – In the Footsteps of Labourers”. The exhibition is ethnographic and tells the story of the everyday life of former labourers on their closest overseas property – Modrave, the largest olive grove in the broader area of the island of Murter. The…
The Little Shipbuilder
The story about a little shipbuilder was written by Sandra Barešin, and illustrated by Duška Radečić Petrić. It’s a story about a little boy named Paško, who dreams of becoming a shipbuilder and building his own boat more than anything else in the world. We organized the promotion of the picture book at the Presentation…
New exhibition: Impressions by Neven Zoričić
We open a new exhibition in our museum! After his presentation at the Juraj Šižgorić City Library in Šibenik, Neven Zoričić, the artist, painter and architect, presents his work here at the Museum of Wooden Shipbuilding in Betina. This time, using oil pastel and tempera techniques and motifs related to Betina and the island of…
Exhibition: MU 52 by Darko Škevin
On the Night of the Museums, we’ll host a special exhibition of a very special author in our museum. The exhibition “MU 52” is Darko Škevin’s first solo exhibition. The name of the exhibition itself is very associative and to those familiar with Betina shipbuilding it automatically refers to Šime Jušić’s boat, once at berth…