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An unusual event took place last night at the Museum of Sinj Alka, informs Ferata.hr. In fact, it was the first time, the museum was a part of this Croatian cultural event - Night of Museums. There were already several hundreds of people waiting in front of the museum, even before Damir Župić marked the beginning of this truly beautiful story of Sinj with the sounds of a trumpet.

When a cultural institution gets 3500 visits in one evening, it is something special.

 

Along with the staff of the museum and the members of the Alka Knights Society, there where Alkars dressed in colorful uniforms and members of the Sinj Folk Theatre dressed in uniforms from the 18th century, who helped in guiding the visitors through the exhibition. Visitors were able to enjoy a documentary about Alka, a tour through the museum, a performance of Klapa Sinj, some good Alka wine and fritule.

 

The interest for touring the museum was so big, that the doors of the museum had to close several times during the night, because it would be impossible to fit in all interested people at once.

In the full projection hall of the museum´s permanent exhibition, its author Nikolina Jelović Mitrović gave a lecture about "How the Museum of Sinj Alka was Created". In addition to the people from Sinj and Cetina area, there were hundreds of people from other parts of Dalmatia interested in visiting the museum, especially from Split and Dubrovnik.

18:00 - 0:00 Sale of the promo materials and museum publications (promo prices)

"Alka" documentary film screening

According to Ferata.hr, the Director Filipović-Grčić stated, that the website of the Museum is planned in the near future, but no specific date could be announced yet. At the moment, the website of the Museum exists as a part of the website of the Alka Knights‘ Association.

Living in a small village is great for being close to the nature, having a small community around, organic food on hand and fresh air to breathe, yes - all that is great, but occasionally we desire a city. For the culture. For theatres, historic buildings, public transportation, different people and museums.

Even my child loves museums after we visited the Children´s Museum in Bratislava and with the opening line from the employee of the museum welcoming us: "This is a museum, where everything you see can be touched!", I don´t need to tell you that as a parent to (then) a 2,5 years old this was heaven to my ears. And we love even those who have a bit stricter touching-rules, but so far my search for a really good museum in Split and its surroundings was not so successful.

So, I am pleased there is this brand new museum in Sinj to explore. Opened 2 days ago with those life-sized statues, this Alka Museum will for sure be a hit of the city, not to mention the region. Enjoy the pictures from the Sinj tourist board and head to Sinj - The Alka Museum is open daily from 9 till 21:00.

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A large delegation from Zagreb visiting the almost finished Sinj Alka Museum today. Prime Minister Zoran Milanović walked through the museum to check the progress accompanied by Branko Grčić (Minister of Regional Development and EU Funds), Darko Lorencin (Minister of Tourism) and Ante Kotromanović (Defence Minister), Ivo Baldasar (Split Mayor) and several Croatian businessmen and generals (Ante Gotovina, Emil Tedeschi, Ante Todorić).

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They were welcomed by the president of the Alka Knights Society dr. Stipe Jukić, who confirmed the opening day of the museum to be on August 8, 2015 - on the day of the Čoja. Prime Minister will attend this year’s Alka and is actually planning to come to Sinj even sooner, probably for the museum opening.

More information at www.ferata.com.

Croatian Prime Minister opens new Alka Museum in Sinj.