As with every year, in early January Zagreb will once again host the slalom races of the Alpine Ski World Cup for both men and women. The women’s slalom race, the VIP Snow Queen Trophy, will take place on January 3rd while the best male slalom skiers will compete on January 6th, when Sljeme will feature an attractive night race.

Coffee served on a small side table, long-forgotten tunes playing quietly on a wooden radio, the smell of the good old times… Such an escape to the past is nowadays enabled by an increasing number of Zagreb’s restaurateurs and café owners, who provide their guests with an original atmosphere for ritual coffee drinking in a “new” retro style.

The focus of this year’s 7th Human Rights Film Festival, which will take place between the 7th and the 13th of December at Zagreb’s Europa cinema, will be the struggle for social rights, which is the theme of most films included in the program.

The most famous character of the Zagreb School of Animated Film, professor Baltazar, is once again ready to conquer the global market. All 59 animated episodes, created between 1967 and 1971, have been digitalized, while a range of merchandising - educational toys and gift-items for children, as well as parents, is also in the pipeline.

The oldest gallery in Zagreb will celebrate its 100th birthday with an interesting exhibition of works by Croatian artists, named “Walking in Diversity”.

Between the 11th and the 13th of December, the Zagreb Arena will be the venue for a spectacular musical show on ice, “Mickey and Minnie’s Magical Journey”, featuring characters from Disney’s cartoons.

The new building of the Museum of Contemporary Art will be opened in mid-December. The museum has a representative collection of some 14,000 works in its holdings by Croatian and foreign contemporary artists, which were created in the period between the 1950’s and today.

Continuing the tradition of organizing large exhibitions, starting in early December and continuing into next year, the Museum of Arts and Crafts will host the exhibition “From Klović and Rembrandt, to Warhol and Picelj”. The exhibition will feature more than a thousand works by Croatian and foreign artists, which are part of the rich graphics collection of the National University Library.