Due to the lack of sufficient archivalia pertaining to Držić’s biography (for example the year of 1508 is presumed to be the year of his birth), no objects that he had used have been preserved.The scene of his theatre and life, which were tightly intertwined in his plays has been transferred to the Marin Držić’s Home Museum, which is neither a memorial home, nor a museum in their traditional sense, but is both.
The idea of the memorial place encouraged by several initiators, among them Frano Čale and Marijan Matković, was marked by placing a memorial plaque on its façade by the Matica Hrvatska ( Central Croatian Cultural and Publishing Society) in 1966. An attempt at recreating ”the story of Marin Držić” was put on scene by Slobodan Prosperov Novak, while its artistic presentation was done by Marin Gozze, at the opening of the house in 1989.
