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The Gallery of Fine Arts in Split, founded in 1931, has been housed since 2009 in the former city hospital of 1792, beside the north wall of Diocletian's Palace. Its collection of more than 3,500 works runs from the 14th century to the present, with icons, old masters and Croatian artists such as Vlaho Bukovac, Ivan Meštrović and Emanuel Vidović.

Founded in 1820, the Split Archaeological Museum is the oldest museum in Croatia. Its neo-Romanesque building by the Viennese architects August Kirstein and Friedrich Ohmann, opened in 1922, shows finds from prehistory to the early Middle Ages, largely from Salona, with Roman inscriptions and sculpture in the arcades around its garden.

The Ivan Meštrović Gallery is the villa that the sculptor Ivan Meštrović designed for himself on the Marjan peninsula and built between 1931 and 1939. Since his donation of 1952 it shows his works in marble, bronze, wood and plaster, drawings and furniture, with sculptures in the garden; the ticket also covers the nearby Crikvine–Kaštilac chapel with his carved wooden panels.

Klis Fortress stands on a rocky ridge above the village of Klis, about 12 km by road northeast of Split, guarding the pass between the Mosor and Kozjak mountains. A seat of Croatian rulers from the 9th century, it was held by the Ottomans from 1537 until Venice took it in 1648. A path leads through three walled enclosures past the round Oprah tower and the church of St Vitus.