Croatian Museum Association awards the Annual Award for the outstanding contribution in museum profession and the biennial Pavao Ritter Vitezović Award for Life Achievement. CMA grants the awards to Croatian citizens, and in rare cases to foreign citizens for the exceptional contribution to museum profession in Croatia.
The Annual Award is awarded to persons, groups and institutions for published, exhibited or in some other way publicly presented achievements of museum profession in the past year.
The Life Achievement Award Pavao Ritter Vitezović is awarded to single persons for the outstanding and lasting contribution to museum profession.