Gallery of old and new masters in the palace Shermage - it's one of the parts of the Fund's museums Varazdin, based in the palace. Also here is the archaeological department. The building of the palace was built in the XVII century. It is the epitome of the Baroque style. To the XVIII century, the palace belonged to the family of Baron Francis Prassinski and later the building passed into the possession of the family Shermage.

The exhibition titled "Contemporary Croatian Art Gallery" was opened in the Old City in 1939, and marked the beginning of a future extensive collection of the finest examples of visual art in Croatia. At the root of the collection are works by Steve Leitner and Marushevicha. In 1947, the museum moved into the palace Shermage and became known as the "Gallery of old and new masters," the name it bears today.

Gallery visitors is more than three thousand works, a significant number of them - the old masters, they are the basis of the exhibition. Today, the museum exhibited 61 picture painted during the XV-XIX centuries. The most valuable are the works of Dutch masters XVII and XVIII centuries. Portrait painting of the XIX century is represented by works of local artists, naturalists: A. Moses, M. Brodnikov, M. Straw. There are also works by contemporary Croatian painters and sculptors.

All the works are divided into collections of about 1000 works made in various techniques of painting in the time period from XV to XX century; approximately 300 drawings are included in a special collection, which includes works by XIX-XX centuries. It is worth noting the unique collection of prints created with the beginning of the XVII and XX century. There is also a selection of 48 works Miljenko Stancic, which includes sketches, paintings and engravings of the master, as well as documents and photographs related to the life of this talented artist.

In addition to the permanent exhibition of the local department regularly organizes temporary exhibitions that show the stages of development, not only of certain artists, but the whole art of Croatia as a whole.