MOMAD Museum of Modern Art Dubrovnik

The Museum of Modern Art Dubrovnik (MOMAD) isn't inside the Old Town walls — it sits a short walk east, in the Ploče district, in a mansion originally built for a Dubrovnik shipowner, Božo Banac. Architects Lavoslav Horvat and Harold Bilinić designed the building in a neo-Renaissance style that deliberately echoes Dubrovnik's old villa architecture. The museum was founded in 1945 and moved into this building as a proper exhibition space in 1948.

The collection runs to around 3,000 works, split between art from the late 19th century through the Second World War — mostly by artists connected to the Dubrovnik region — and contemporary work made since. Paintings, sculpture, prints, photography and video all show up across the galleries.

What people remember most, though, are the terraces: the museum actually has more open-air exhibition space than indoor space, with sculptures set against a straight drop to the Adriatic. Given how close it sits to the harbor, many visitors combine a day of sightseeing with a private gulet charter from Dubrovnik.