|About the museum:
The museum preserves and presents material related to the history of the Imotski region from prehistory to the mid-20th century. Material is exhibited in three interconnected rooms of the permanent display. Each makes a separate unit according to kind of material: archaeological, cultural history and ethnological. The collection of archaeology contains objects of the oldest history of the region, from prehistory to the Early Christian period, with a particular stress on Antiquity, which is well represented. The cultural history collection gives a review of the development of Imotski town from the mid 18th to the early 20th century, when the settlement grew into an urban whole and became the centre of the whole of the Imotski region and neighbouring parts of Herzegovina. The ethnological collection shows the villages of the Imotski region and the cultivation of tobacco in the region, which started in the period of Austrian rule. The museum’s building dates from this time (1903) and was built as part of a complex of six rooms meant for the buying-in and processing of tobacco.