In a second permanent display of 1946-1948, the material was methodically displayed according to zones (Pannonian, Dinaric and Adriatic). On the first floor the earlier conceived four interiors were kept (the interior of a house from Deščevec by Zagreb, from the village of Rinkovec near Zagreb, the village of Drnje in Podravina and from the village of Andrijevci in Bosanska Posavina), and once again the interior of the hut on Dinara was shown. In the newly remodelled space of 1972 on the first floor of the museum a peasant room from Hrvatsko zagorje was shown, and individual examples of furniture from various parts of Croatia, such as chest, shelving, chairs, stools and benches, as examples of interior design.

The objects on display in the permanent collection are contextualised with photographs by the people who used them in a given setting and a given cultural zone. And so objects began to be linked with people as creators and owners of these museum objects in the past. As well as in the museum permanent displays, the furniture was shown at temporary exhibitions at home and abroad. Among them worth pausing on is the exhibition Folk art of Yugoslavia 1949-1951, at which there were smaller decorative items from the collection shown, such as cradles, stools and shelves. It was produced with the Ethnographic Museum in Belgrade, and toured to Zurich, Edinburgh, London, Copenhagen, Stockholm, Geneva and in 1967 to Montreal, in 1969 to Ingleheim, in 1988 to Sofia and 1989 to Helsinki. Shown in the Art Pavilion in 1972 was the exhibition Wood in folk creativity in the framework of which 214 objects were displayed, encompassed according to thematic units (natural forms, gouged and hewn, bent, turned and visually designed wood). Then in the Ethnographic Museum another exhibition was put on, Wood in Traditional Working, 1974, which went on tour to Ljubljana in 1975, after which in 1980 the exhibitions Selected items of rural furniture, in the context of which examples of benches, chairs and tables were shown, and in the exhibition Forms of rural chests in the SR of Croatia in the Marko Šavrić Factory in Zagreb. At the exhibition From the national heritage of the Adriatic, which was put on in the Ethnographic Museum in 1981, objects from the Furniture Collection that came from the Adriatic region were shown; at the exhibition Baranya – tracking the ethnographic heritage, which was put on in 1985, examples of furniture from Baranya were displayed. Objects from the Furniture Collection were shown in the context of various individual exhibitions that had furniture in the context of some broader topic, like the exhibition Croatian Traditional Folk Culture, which was put on in Budapest in 2000, the Art Pavilion in Zagreb in 2001, and in Buenos Aires and Santiago de Chile in 2002. In addition, objects were also put on display in the context of the reconstructions of some interiors in the exhibition Podravina, Baranya show their colours, 2006, put on in the Ethnographic Museum in Zagreb. At the study exhibition Furniture in Croatia, an ethnological view of the interior decoration of the home in the Ethnographic Museum in Zagreb in 1998, touring to Ljubljana in 1999 and Kitsee in 2001, furniture was comprehended from a wider aspect and looked at in the framework of an ethnological view of the culture of living. Visitors were not longer passive observers, but active commentators and participants.