Dubravka Peić Čaldarović was born in Dubrava near Vrbovec in 1955. She graduated with a degree in history and sociology from the Faculty of Humanities and Social Science in Zagreb in 1980. In 1996, she earned a master’s degree from that Faculty’s History Department. As of 1986 she began working at the Museum of the Croatian People's Revolution in Zagreb, where she was the head of the Document and Stamp Collection. After the merger of the Museum of the Croatian People's Revolution and the Croatian Museum of History into the Croatian History Museum, she became the head of the Heraldry and Sigillography Collection. In early 2006, she became the manager of Documentary Collection II of the Croatian History Museum, which she still runs today. She is the author of several solo exhibitions and numerous catalogues published by the Croatian History Museum and other museums in Croatia. She was a representative of the Croatian History Museum in the educational projects organized by the Zagreb Museums to observe International Museum Day 1997–1998, and she has initiated numerous heraldic and genealogical museum workshops. She has participated in 17 scholarly and professional conferences in the field of heraldry, history and museology, of which ten were international. She is a member of several professional associations, such as the International Council of Museums (ICOM), the Croatian History Association and the Cultural Tourism Section of the Croatian Museum Society. She is also one of the founders of the Croatian Heraldry and Vexillology Association (Dubravka Peić Čaldarović).