Stone as a Building Material

Križevci, Krapina, Hrvatska Kostajnica, Zagreb, Strasbourg, Paris, Karlovac, Split, Varaždin, 2000

A group of exhibitions titled together as Stone as a Building Material was organized by the Ministry of Culture as part the Council of Europe programme - Europe, a Common Heritage 1999-2000, to mark the ten year anniversary of the European Heritage Days.

Croatian Conservation Institute took part in the project with an exhibition titled Conservation of Stone Monuments – principles, methods and achievements,held at the Mimara Museum in Zagreb in September 2000.

Other exhibitions included in the project were:

• Stone Towns – 700 years later
• Stone Monuments of Zagreb
• Urban Stone Furniture of Towns in the Dubrovnik-Neretva County
• From a Sarcophagus to a Church
• Sandstone in the Architecture of Slavonia
• Diocletian’s and Our Palace
• Stone Monuments of Šibenik
• Stone in the Architecture of the Town of Varaždin
• Folk Architecture of Western Bukovica – a photo record from 1974