Other Educational Institutions
There exist numerous public music schools (primary and secondary) and also public special education schools (or classes within regular schools).
There exist over thirty scientific institutes, the largest one being the Institute "Ruđer Bošković" in Zagreb that excels in physics. Among the other institutes there are for example the Energy Institute "Hrvoje Požar" in Zagreb, the Civil Engineering Institute of Croatia, Cultural and Scientific Center "Milutin Milanković" etc.
The Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts in Zagreb is a learned society promoting language, culture, and science from its first conception in 1866. (The juxtaposition of the words typically seen in English as "Arts and Sciences" is deliberate.)
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