The Museum's holdings are divided into several collections, the contents of which consist of paintings, drawings, graphics, sculptures and medals from the 18th, 19th, 20th and 21st centuries.

In addition to solo and retrospective exhibitions, the Museum traditionally organizes the following art events: the Slavonian Biennale, the Ivo Kerdić Memorial – Triennial of Croatian Medals and Small Sculptures, and the Days of Printmaking.

war, by taking over the collections from the heritage of manorial castles in the Osijek area, and even then it had close to 500 works, among them such high, European artistic values.

Soon, the need to separate the pictures and present them publicly to citizens became apparent, so in 1948, thanks to Dr. Josip Bösendorfer's first independent exhibition in the gallery sense was made from the existing material, located in the building on European Avenue 24.

As part of the holdings of the Museum of Slavonia, the collection remained until 1952, when it acquired premises in the former county building, opposite the Croatian National Theatre, in today's Županijska street.

Individual exhibitions from the museum's holdings were signs of the Gallery's existence, and they have once again drawn attention to its artistic treasures, which has borne fruit, especially with the involvement of the painter and academician Ljubo Babić.

The extensive and high-quality artistic holdings could no longer be kept hidden and scattered, and the adaptation of the building at 9 European Avenue, where the material was given a proper place for presentation to the public.

Unfortunately, the spatial capacities of the building in which the Museum is located no longer meet the needs required by its current extensive and dynamic exhibition program.

The construction of this urban development, which connects the Upper Town and the Citadel, began in the last decades of the 19th century - in the period from 1883 to 1900, the southern side of the then Chavrakova Street (today's European Avenue) was built, where representative historicist free-standing residential buildings with front gardens were erected - among others, the neo-Renaissance building of Dr. D. Neuman, today's Museum of Fine Arts.

In the first decade of the 20th century, the northern side of the street was also built, with luxurious Art Nouveau residential city palaces with front gardens and decorative iron fences.

It was built as a family home for Osijek lawyer Dr. Dragutin Neuman, founder of the Croatian Writers and Artists Club (there is a memorial plaque with his portrait on the eastern facade of the building, erected in 1930).

Construction began on the eastern part of the plot, where a corner two-story building was built, bordered on the east by today's Neumanova Street, and on the north by Europska Avenue.

The exterior design of the building follows the historicist principle of referring to the architectural models of the past, in this case, to the examples of Italian Renaissance palaces.

Branka Balen, Leonilda Conti and Jasminka Mesarić, and the authors of the conceptual design for the reconstruction and extension of the Museum of Fine Arts, architects Branimir Kljajić and Goran Jagić, have designed and developed an exceptionally high-quality project, which will functionally and aesthetically meet all the requirements that a modern, specialist museum institution is faced with due to the specific conditions of its functioning and the needs of modern times.