Froggyland

Froggyland is a collection of 507 taxidermied frogs arranged in 21 dioramas depicting human scenes: a frog concert, a frog school, frog football, frog barbershop. The scale is tiny — each frog is the size of a thumb — and the detail is extraordinary: individual music stands, tiny footballs, miniature razors. The whole thing is deeply strange and entirely unforgettable.

The museum is housed in a small space just north of the palace walls, and takes about 30 minutes to work through. It has attracted considerably more attention in recent years, partly because it is genuinely funny and partly because social media has decided it is the ultimate absurdist attraction. The entrance fee is modest. Children in particular tend to find it magnificent. Adults who were expecting ancient Roman history and get frog barbers instead rarely feel short-changed.

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Froggyland was assembled in the early 20th century by a Viennese taxidermist named Franz Brendl, who spent decades creating his 507-frog collection and exhibiting it around Europe and North America. After his death the collection passed through various hands and ended up in Split, where it has been displayed since the 1950s. How exactly a collection of taxidermy frogs doing human activities ended up in Diocletian's Palace is one of those questions that Split doesn't feel obliged to answer.

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