The Collection holds various objects made from metal, wood and textiles, and some made from glass, wax, ceramics, leather and alabaster. They were made in Croatia and abroad and date from the period between the 19^th and the 20^th century.

Many of them originate from the entire territory of the what used to be the Triune Kingdom of Croatia, Slavonia and Dalmatia, and most of them were acquired by the National Museum between 1895 and 1920. They are for the most part donations from parishes or, in the case of discovered objects, purchases from the people who had made the find. Some objects were acquired during the first years of the National Museum, and some were brought to the Museum by Mijat Sabljar from his numerous travels.

A relatively large number of objects came from Paulite monasteries: from Remete, Remetinac, Svetice, the former Paulite Church of St Mary by Ospa and the cathedral in Novi Vinodolski.

Metalwork forms the largest section of museum items, and it includes small objects like crosses, medallions and rosaries, as well as, to a lesser extent, vessels. Particularly worthy of mention is a chalice from the church of St Mary in Ostarije dating from the end of the 15^th or the beginning of the 16^th century, which shows a pronounced influence of the goldsmiths of Ratenberg; it was purchased by the Museum in 1903. The collection also holds several contemporary, namely late Gothic, reliquaries which were probably made in Italian workshops, acquired from the church at Grobnik.

The textiles include chalice covers, stoles, and maniples, an 18^th century cope acquired from the church in Ledenice, about a dozen chasubles, including two leather ones, as well as one chasuble dating from the beginning of the 16^th century, significant because of its style, with an embroidered cross on stitches velvet. Other items include complete vestments from the parish church at Svetice, 6 pairs of ‘abbot’s’ slippers and 15 pairs of gloves, which were given to the National Museum from the Zagreb Cathedral by permission of Archbishop Posilovic in 1899.

Among the wooden objects – which include candlesticks, angels, reliefs, crucifix and statues – we need to mention the ‘Altar of the Conversion of St Paul’, with its exceptional size and quality of workmanship; the altar originally stood in St Mark’s Church in Zagreb, and two fairly recently purchased statues of saints made by the master woodcarver Ivan Komensteiner at the end of the 17^th century. The statues probably originated from the altar of St Peter and St Paul which was commissioned for the extended vestry of the Zagreb Cathedral by the bishop Martin Borkovic (1668-1687).

Apart from objects from the Roman Catholic rite, the Collection also holds some items belonging to the Eastern Orthodox and Jewish rites.