Red History Museum

The Red History Museum is an interactive museum of everyday life in socialist Yugoslavia, housed in the former TUP factory at Ulica Svetog Kriza 3 in the Gruz district of Dubrovnik, in Croatia's Dubrovnik-Neretva region. Rather than a conventional display of objects behind glass, the museum uses recreated rooms, multimedia, original household items and personal stories to show how citizens lived, worked and spent leisure time between 1945 and 1990 under Tito. A full-scale recreated apartment shows the furniture, radios, appliances and decor of a typical home, and other sections cover the Cold War, the Non-Aligned Movement, youth organisations, consumer goods and propaganda posters. Visitors can handle some objects and sit in the apartment. The material is explained in English, and the tone mixes humour with a serious look at political repression and the breakup of the country. A visit takes one to one and a half hours. The museum is open April to October daily from 10:00 to 20:00, with last entry at 19:15, and November to March Monday to Saturday from 11:00 to 17:00, with last entry at 16:15 and closed on Sunday. Adult admission is EUR 10 (about $11.50), students and over-65s pay EUR 8, school pupils EUR 4, and children under 10 enter free with a paying adult. The museum is about ten minutes on foot from Gruz bus station and ferry port, so it suits a wait before a ferry departure, and it is also a good option on rainy days. Crowds are modest compared with the Old Town. The recreated apartment and the propaganda poster wall are the best photo spots.