Did you know? Zagreb airport has a museum zone after security, run with the Croatian History Museum

Passengers flying from Zagreb's Franjo Tuđman Airport can visit a museum before boarding: a Museum Zone in the passenger terminal, immediately after the security check, which the airport describes as the first of its kind in the region.

The space was created with the Croatian History Museum, which has been unable to use its own premises because of earthquake damage and ongoing renovation work and is therefore holding a series of exhibitions at the airport instead. The project is supported by Croatia's Ministry of Culture and Media.

The opening exhibition, "Stars of Croatian History: The Sky is Their Limit", presents figures from politics, science, culture and sport. They include Faust Vrančić, described as the inventor of the parachute and the suspension bridge; Slavoljub Eduard Penkala, creator of the mechanical pencil; Ivan Vučetić, a pioneer of fingerprint identification; the Nobel laureates Lavoslav Ružička and Vladimir Prelog; the opera singer Milka Trnina; and Dražen Petrović, the first Croatian basketball player in the NBA. The exhibition was curated by Magdalena Vrbanec and Iva Katarina Vukičević.

Because the zone sits after the security check, it is aimed at passengers already on their way to their flights. The airport does not publish dates for future exhibitions, so travellers who want to see the current display should check the airport's website before their trip.