Archive collection

The archival material that is kept as a separate collection in the Split City Museum is as diverse as the various forms of activity of a city museum, which touch on all aspects of cultural, historical, social, artistic, economic and urban life. It began to be collected systematically from the time of the Museum's founding, in parallel with the collection of objects from museum collections and documentary material. The cultural movable heritage stored in the City Museum, as well as the immovable, corresponds in its life to the documents from this collection. In this sense, work on the entire museum holdings is inseparable from research within the archival material.

The material within the Archival Collection is divided into various funds and archives, among which we distinguish family funds, or funds of individual personalities, and further funds of institutions, various associations, etc. The oldest funds date from the 14th to the second half of the 20th century.
These funds represent all the written heritage of Split, both secular and ecclesiastical. Through fieldwork, curators encounter heritage objects of interest for various collections, and with the relocation of heritage monuments, the first archival stage of a documentary nature is created. In this way, the Museum's Archival Collection also corresponds in its specificity. Within the Collection there is also a number of individual, extremely significant documents, of which the Statute of the City of Split from the 14th century stands out, as well as the Libro d'oro, a handwritten book of minutes of the sessions of the Great Council from 1420 to 1797, and the Musical Dictionary of Julius Bajamonti, a polyhistor and composer from the 18th century.