The Pula City Art Collection was created as a logical sequence of the founding of the gallery business, whose beginnings date back to 1970 when the first city exhibition space was opened in Opatija Street. Since 1972, valuable works of art have been purchased or donated to the Collection by artists. This combination of artists and their city has resulted in the fact that today we have about a hundred works in the Collection, and by adding individual sheets from graphic folders, that number is increased by another two hundred works. Today, this rich art fund is divided into two collections: the Istrian Authors' Collection and the Art Collection with works of authors from the territory of the former state. In 2006, the Pula City Art Collection was enriched with a donation of a collection of works by the most eminent Pula and Istrian artists and one of the most significant Croatian painters of the 20th century, Antun Motika. The Antun Motika Collection consists of works of documentary value from Motika's pre-academic period, followed by watercolors, gouaches, tempera and oil, made from 1929 to 1940 and later, large-scale drawings, most of which are sketches and templates for sculptures in glass and ceramics. The donation also includes four sculptures, bronze medals, aluminum foils and fifty painting experiments. A special segment of the collection consists of twenty albums with drawings, photo collages, photo experiments and two illustrated stories created in the Pazin Gymnasium.