The collection contains more than five hundred valuable items that span the time from the 17th to the early 20th century, in essence, from Baroque to Art Nouveau. The objects are made of precious and base metals (gold and silver, bronze, iron, brass and so on).

Dubrovnik was one of the best known goldsmithing centres in Croatia, and this fine craft was cultivated from the 13th to the mid-20th century. The whole of that time, the goldsmiths placed on their handicrafts the old and valued hallmark of the Dubrovnik Republic – the head of St Blaise with mitre. It is objects with the hallmark of the republic and the marks of the Dubrovnik goldsmiths that make the collection valuable and interesting.

With their diversity of form and purpose, objects from the metal collection show that the population of Dubrovnik was well in step with the Europe of the time. Most of the objects have been either given or purchased. Their origin is connected with Dubrovnik, as well as with imports from neighbouring European lands, mostly from Italy and Austria, and somewhat fewer from France, Spain and Russia. These are everyday objects, utilitarian or decorative (cutlery, vessels, candlesticks, votive tablets, cashboxes, locks and keys) that, mainly, are presented in the framework of the permanent collection.

The holdings of this collection contain the jewellery of Dubrovnik goldsmith Antun Linardović and the tools of his workshop.