The Međimurje County Museum in

Čakovec Čakovec (; ; ; ) is a city in Northern Croatia, located around north of Zagreb, the Croatian capital, and close to the borders with Slovenia and Hungary. Čakovec is both the county seat and the largest city of Međimurje County, the northernmo ...

, the seat of

Međimurje County Međimurje County (; ; ) is a triangle-shaped Counties of Croatia, county in the northernmost part of Croatia, roughly corresponding to the historical and geographical region of Međimurje (region), Međimurje. It is the smallest Croatian count ...

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, is located in the Zrinski Castle inner palace, the biggest medieval fortification in the county, close to the centre of the town and its main square.

History

The museum was established in 1954 by the authorities of Međimurje County as Čakovec Town Museum and opened to the public in 1955. At the beginning it was housed in the exhibition halls inside the fortified outer buildings of the castle. Later it was enlarged, renamed and transferred to the three-storey inner palace of the castle complex, so it has around today.

Function

The museum is a regional

cultural heritage Cultural heritage is the heritage of tangible and intangible heritage assets of a group or society that is inherited from past generations. Not all heritages of past generations are "heritage"; rather, heritage is a product of selection by socie ...

museum. It collects, preserves, maintains, displays, exhibits and interprets artifacts pertinent to the history of Međimurje County. It also gives expert help, guiding services and other informational services, organizes educational lectures and specialized exhibitions, publishes expert books and has other activities.

Departments and collections

Among the museum's exhibits are many local artifacts and archeological findings dating from

prehistory Prehistory, also called pre-literary history, is the period of human history between the first known use of stone tools by hominins million years ago and the beginning of recorded history with the invention of writing systems. The use ...

to recent history (20th century). A series of rooms depicts different periods of history and include information boards. Themes covered include ethnographical heritage and the history of the local economy. There are five departments in the museum aiming to promote the county's rich legacy of heritage, culture and arts:

archeology Archaeology or archeology is the study of human activity through the recovery and analysis of material culture. The archaeological record consists of artifacts, architecture, biofacts or ecofacts, sites, and cultural landscapes. Archaeolo ...

ethnography Ethnography is a branch of anthropology and the systematic study of individual cultures. It explores cultural phenomena from the point of view of the subject of the study. Ethnography is also a type of social research that involves examining ...

cultural history Cultural history records and interprets past events involving human beings through the social, cultural, and political milieu of or relating to the arts and manners that a group favors. Jacob Burckhardt (1818–1897) helped found cultural history ...

history History is the systematic study of the past, focusing primarily on the Human history, human past. As an academic discipline, it analyses and interprets evidence to construct narratives about what happened and explain why it happened. Some t ...

and visual arts gallery. The last includes the memorial collection of Ladislav Kralj–Međimurec (1891–1976), a notable Croatian painter and engraver. The five departments comprise a total of 18,993 exhibited items distributed in 51 various collections, including a

lapidarium A lapidarium is a place where stone (Latin: ) monuments and fragments of archaeological interest are exhibited. They can include stone epigraphy, epigraphs; statues; architectural elements such as columns, cornices, and acroterions; bas relief ...

situated in the inner

courtyard A courtyard or court is a circumscribed area, often surrounded by a building or complex, that is open to the sky. Courtyards are common elements in both Western and Eastern building patterns and have been used by both ancient and contemporary a ...

(atrium) of the Zrinski palace, with a large number of stone monuments exhibited in the

open air Open air, open-air or openair may refer to: *''Open Air'', a BBC television program *Open-air cinema or outdoor cinema *Open-air concert, a concert taking place outside *Open-air museum, a distinct type of museum exhibiting its collections out-of- ...

Gallery

File:Noć muzeja 2011, Čakovec - ulaz.JPG, Museum entrance during the "Night of Museums" in 2011 File: Noć muzeja 2012, Čakovec - lončarski izlošci.JPG, Visitors in the Archaeological Department File: Noć muzeja 2012, Čakovec - izložbene vitrine.JPG, Showcases in a museum lobby File: Lapidarij, Čakovec (Croatia).JPG, Part of the museum's Lapidaruim File: Muzej Međimurja, Čakovec (Croatia) - Međimurje u Domovinskom ratu.jpg, Part of the Croatian War of Independence collection File:Izložba Nikola Zrinski Čakovečki 2014.- govor.jpg, Nikola VII Zrinski exhibition on the occasion of his 350th death anniversary in a museum's exhibition hall File:Sablja Nikole Šubića Zrinskog.jpg, Sabre and helmet of

Nikola IV Zrinski Nikola IV Zrinski or Miklós IV Zrínyi (, ; 1507/1508 – 7 September 1566), also commonly known as Nikola Šubić Zrinski (), was a Croatian- Hungarian nobleman and general, Ban of Croatia from 1542 until 1556, royal master of the treasury f ...

at an exhibition on the occasion of 450th anniversary of the

Siege of Szigetvár The siege of Szigetvár or the Battle of Szigeth (pronunciation: �siɡɛtvaːr ; ; ) was an Ottoman siege of the fortress of Szigetvár in the Kingdom of Hungary. The fort had blocked Sultan Suleiman's line of advance towards Vienna in 156 ...

, 2016 File:Muzej Međimurja, Čakovec - Riznica Međimurja.jpg, Reception room of the newly formed Treasury of Međimurje, a museum of intangible heritage File:Vojnik - haramija iz 16-17. stoljeća (Croatia).jpg, A haramija at an exhibition in the Museum

External links

Official website of the Međimurje County Museum

Official website of the Croatian Museum Documentation Center

Međimurje Regional Museum on the official website of the European Museums Network

Međimurje Museum (established in 1954) in the Encyclopedia of the Miroslav Krleža Institute of Lexicography
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History

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Departments and collections

Gallery

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