The Rector's Palace is a combination of architectural styles from different centuries and the inspiration of various architects. Fires, earthquakes, and other disasters required the palace to be renovated or repaired many times. The ever-changing nature of the Rector's Palace makes it a good place to house Dubrovnik's History Museum.

The Rector's palace is a harmonious Gothic and Renaissance palace with certain Baroque additions. The palace owes its present shape to many additions and reconstructions throughout its turbulent history. From time to time it happened that the palace was destroyed or heavily damaged by either fires, gunpowder explosions or earthquakes which required a total or partial reconstruction or repair of the building. Each architect had it's own view of how the building should look so nowadays we can enjoy the unique mixture of styles blended perfectly across this monumental structure.