Croatian Nurses Association’s (CNA) association for the history of nursing was founded on March 19, 2013 in Zagreb. The goal of the association is to recover materials from the rich history of nursing and to present them to the nursing community and to the whole population. Association primarily focuses on following activities: collection of the materials from the sphere of nursing (pictures, uniforms, brooches, films, books, records, audio files); archiving collected data and materials; analysis of nursing publications; joining with related international organizations; promotion of Croatian nursing history through exhibitions and lectures (schools, broad public); production of nursing calendar; organization of conferences and active participation in other associations conferences. (1) The association so far participated in the central commemoration of the International Nurses Day and in the commemorations in other CNA’s branches; organized displays of historical nurses uniforms on conferences of other CNA’s associations; participated in commemoration of Book Night in the library of the Andrija Štampars School of Public Health and made nursing calendar.

“Live pictures from the history of nursing” is a display that has shown uniforms of: Benedictine Sisters, Brothers of Mercy, Daughters of Charity of Saint Vincent de Paul, sisters from Rudolfina Haus, Croatian nursing uniforms in between the World Wars and from the period from 1960. until 1980. The display was accompanied by a description of those communities and the people who worked in the care for the sick and needy. It described the historical moments in which Croatian nursing transformed from a calling to a profession. The uniforms in the show where either originals or replicas made based on the models of original uniforms. Uniforms that we don’t have in original were reconstructed using photographs and available manuscripts. (2-4)