The Međimurje County Museum in

Čakovec Čakovec (; hu, Csáktornya; la, Aquama; german: Tschakathurn) is a city in northern Croatia, located around north of Zagreb, the Croatian capital. Čakovec is both the county seat and the largest city of Međimurje County, the northernmost, sm ...

, the seat of

Međimurje County Međimurje County (; hr, Međimurska županija ; hu, Muraköz megye) 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), ...

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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 soci ...

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 known as pre-literary history, is the period of human history between the use of the first stone tools by hominins 3.3 million years ago and the beginning of recorded history with the invention of writing systems. The use of ...

to recent history (20th century). A series of rooms depicts different periods of history and include information boards. Themes covered include

ethnographical Ethnography (from Greek ''ethnos'' "folk, people, nation" and ''grapho'' "I write") is a branch of anthropology and the systematic study of individual cultures. Ethnography explores cultural phenomena from the point of view of the subject o ...

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 scientific 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 landscap ...

ethnography Ethnography (from Greek ''ethnos'' "folk, people, nation" and ''grapho'' "I write") is a branch of anthropology and the systematic study of individual cultures. Ethnography explores cultural phenomena from the point of view of the subject o ...

cultural history Cultural history combines the approaches of anthropology and history to examine popular cultural traditions and cultural interpretations of historical experience. It examines the records and narrative descriptions of past matter, encompassing the ...

history History (derived ) is the systematic study and the documentation of the human activity. The time period of event before the History of writing#Inventions of writing, invention of writing systems is considered prehistory. "History" is an umbr ...

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 reliefs ...

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 ...

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

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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 Nikola () is a given name which, like Nicholas, is a version of the Greek ''Nikolaos'' (Νικόλαος). It is common as a masculine given name in the South Slavic countries (Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, North Macedonia, Montene ...

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

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 hu, Szigetvár ostroma, hr, Bitka kod Sigeta; Sigetska bitka, tr, Zigetvar Kuşatması) was a siege of the fortress of Szigetvár, Kingdom of Hungary, that block ...

, 2016

External links

Official website of the Međimurje County Museum

Official website of the Croatian Museum Documentation Center
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Function

Departments and collections

Gallery

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