Salt Museum Pag

It all started when the Association of renters of rooms and apartments in the town of Pag asked the local government to provide nine abandoned warehouses, which were used as the salt warehouses even during the reign of the Venetians in Middle Ages. The salt meant life in the city of Pag back in those days, and is an important branch of production today though those warehouses are a tourist attraction today. Only one of these stores are in use now as the museum of salt, but the permanent exhibition is varied and educational. Here you can find out how people of Pag were tracing the salt, what were the tools used and how they had prepared with salt. Over a hundred exhibits will tell you about a history of blood and sweat spilled on Pag salt fields. You will discover what salt do to human body, and you will see the salt sculptures made by primary school students. The most famous sculptures are the cribs which were exposed in Vatican too. The salt warehouse has been awarded as the best project of the Croatian business in 2013, and according to the plan even other stores are waiting for reconstruction for tourism, so that one of them should contain the media room, and in the second, the so-called House of Pag, visitors will be able to taste the products of small and medium-sized businesses from the island. The project is worthy of support by purchasing ticket symbolic price, or souvenirs of salt. Also, see the photos testifying to the rich tradition of salt production on the island, and the mountain of salt symbolizing the former purpose of the current museum of salt. You will look upon the salt in a different manner from now on: the container of salt on your table will reflect the island of Pag, the scent of the sea and the warmth of the sun, without which there would be no salt at all.