Pregrada Town Museum (Muzej grada Pregrade)

Muzej grada Pregrade Zlatko Dragutin Tudjina is the town museum of Pregrada, a small town in the hills of western Hrvatsko zagorje. It stands at Trg Gospe Kunagorske 3, on the main square, in the Old School building that it shares with the town library. Its permanent exhibition opened on 22 November 2007, and a third collection was added in April 2008.

The exhibition holds 639 objects in three collections. The numismatic collection shows coins and paper money from different periods. The collection of mining and geology covers the coal mine that shaped Pregrada in the 20th century. Stjepan Tudjina bought the mine during the Second World War, and after the war the Pregrada coal pits became a major local employer, drawing workers from across Zagorje. Production peaked at around 77,000 tonnes in 1970; as oil replaced coal, output fell and the mine closed in 1975. Documents, photographs, carbide lamps, tools, a miners' flag and a ceremonial uniform tell the story, and the same room displays fossils from the Pregrada area, about 230 million years old, from the time a warm Triassic sea covered the region.

The third collection is the most unusual. It is devoted to the Thierry pharmacy, which made Pregrada the site of the first industrial production of medicines in Croatia. The first pharmacist, Hipolit Bilinski, a Polish nobleman from Galicia, opened the pharmacy "At the Guardian Angel". After his death it was bought by Adolf Thierry, who received his concession in 1892 and opened the pharmacy in a new building in 1893. Thierry's "English miraculous balsam" and Centifolia ointment, sold under the trademark of a green nun, were registered in London and became known across Europe.

The museum is open on weekdays: Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday 10:00 to 15:00 and Thursday 12:00 to 17:00, with groups received by arrangement at other times. A visit takes about an hour and combines well with the square, the parish church and the ruins of Kostelgrad nearby.