This exhibition Laval Nugent – Warrior and Art Collector was set up in the newly acquired Museum’s Gallery in Zagreb in the fall of 2017 marking the 240th anniversary of Laval’s birth, in cooperation with Embassy of Ireland in Croatia. The aim of the exhibition was to present to the Croatian public the story of Count Nugent, as well as his complex personality. Exhibiting objects acquired by the Museum thanks to Count’s archaeological excavations, the artistic part of the narrative is presented. However, the exhibition has a much broader objective, showing the link between two countries, Ireland and Croatia, which were equally Laval’s homeland. This connection has been strengthened recently and Laval Nugent’s contribution to the development of Croatian culture deserves to be more widely known in his country of birth. By staging the exhibition at the EPIC Museum in Dublin, the Archaeological Museum in Zagreb wants to commemorate the legacy of Count Laval, to whom, as well as a number of other Croatian cultural institutions, it owes much. If this exhibition encourages Laval’s compatriots to learn more about him, we have returned at least a small amount of the debt.