Hrvatski
COLLECTIONS
Staro Selo Museum material comprises museum objects organized into the Museum's collections as follows:
a) Ethnographic Collections
- Collection of household objects and country furniture
- Collection of folk sacral art
- Collection of folk musical instruments
- Collection of children's wooden toys
- Collection of baskets and wickerwork
- Ceramics collection
- Collection of textiles and textile handicrafts
- Collection of tools and implements
b) Cultural and Historical Collections
- Collection of picture postcards and greeting cards
- Furniture collection
- Collection of objects from Vila Kumrovec
- Visual arts collection
c) Educational Collections
- Collection of mangers
- Collection of Easter eggs
- Collection of Carnival masks
d) Historical Collection
Collection of Household Objects and Country Furniture
The collection comprises objects for everyday use in a traditional country household and farm in the early 20th century as well as objects that were used on farms in the 1950s. The collection includes objects that were collected and bought at the Museum's inception.
Collection director: Anita Paun-Gadža, senior curator
Collection of Folk Sacral Art
This collection comprises objects that express the piety of the country people, such as holy pictures, crucifixes, votives, prayer books, rosaries, and so on. Some of the objects were found in the course of the establishment of the Museum, while the majority of the objects were bought from the local people.
Collection director: Tihana Kušenić, curator
Collection of Folk Musical Instruments
The collection comprises several valuable specimens of traditional folk musical instruments from Hrvatsko Zagorje, made of wood, focusing on violins and double basses, and also including accompanying instruments, mostly string ones (alto tamburitza, soprano tamburitza, baritone tamburitza, and so on).
Collection director: Anita Paun-Gadža, senior curator
Collection of Children's Wooden Toys
This collection comprises original traditional manufactured toys of Hrvatsko Zagorje carved by local craftsmen. The wooden toys fall into several categories, including musical instruments, furniture, animals, and vehicles. The toys are painted predominantly in red and blue, with specific floral and geometrical ornaments.
Collection director: Tatjana Brlek, senior curator and museum educationist
Collection of Baskets and Wickerwork
The collection includes artefacts for everyday use made of wicker, straw, and corn husks – baskets, cribs, fish traps, shopping bags, and similar wickerwork used in country homes and on farms.
Collection director: Anita Paun-Gadža, senior curator
Ceramics Collection
The collection includes vessels of various forms and sizes that were fashioned on the potter's wheel and used for the preparation, serving, and consumption of food.
Collection director: Tihana Kušenić, curator
Collection of Textiles and Textile Handicrafts
The collection includes sets or parts of sets of men's and women's folk costumes and individual, systematically collected objects for everyday use from Hrvatsko Zagorje made of linen (flax and hemp). The clothing items and the objects for everyday use date from the early 19th century.
Collection director: Anita Paun-Gadža, senior curator
Collection of Tools and Implements
The collection of tools and implements comprises various agricultural tools and implements used in everyday life in Hrvatsko Zagorje.
Collection director: Tihana Kušenić, curator
Collection of Picture Postcards and Greeting Cards
This collection includes cards that arrived in Hrvatsko Zagorje in the early 20th century from various parts of the world. The greeting cards are theme cards, most frequently relating to celebrations of Christian holidays – Easter, Christmas and New Year, patron saints' days, and birthdays. The picture postcards comprise the smaller part of the collection, but their motifs of the villages and towns in Hrvatsko Zagorje make them particularly valuable.
Collection director: Anita Paun-Gadža, senior curator
Furniture Collection
The collection of furniture, clocks, mirrors, and porcelain documents the lifestyle of the population of Hrvatsko Zagorje from mid-20th century to the present. The collection includes ornamental and everyday use objects made of wood, ceramics, and glass.
Collection director: Anita Paun-Gadža, senior curator
Collection of Objects From Vila Kumrovec
This collection comprises objects that were used to furnish and decorate Vila Kumrovec, Josip Broz Tito's residential villa and that date mostly from the 1960s.
Collection director: Anita Paun-Gadža, senior curator
Visual Arts Collection
The visual arts collection comprises paintings, drawings, and prints that were donated to Josip Broz and Kumrovec Memorial Home or created at art colonies in Kumrovec. Their authors are well known artists from the territory of the former Yugoslavia as well as from countries with which Kumrovec developed friendly relations.
Collection director: Tatjana Brlek, senior curator and museum educationist
Collection of Mangers
This collection comprises mangers made by children and their families observing the tradition of depicting the birth of baby Jesus and following the original mode of building mangers. The collection expands with the addition of mangers fashioned by traditional manger builders.
Collection director: Tatjana Brlek, senior curator and museum educationist
Collection of Easter Eggs
The Easter egg collection includes eggs painted in floral and geometrical forms. The inscriptions and ornaments on the Easter eggs, pisanice, are testimonies of the tradition of egg painting in the villages and towns along the Sutla River and represent a valuable example of preserved local heritage.
Collection director: Tatjana Brlek, senior curator and museum educationist
Collection of Carnival Masks
The collection comprises masks that were made by children together with their adult relatives and that show both the traditional and contemporary modes of mask making and observing Shrove Tuesday in Krapina-Zagorje County. The collection expands as more traditional masks characteristic of Hrvatsko Zagorje arrive.
Collection director: Tatjana Brlek, senior curator and museum educationist
Historical Collection
The historical collection comprises specific historical material of Kumrovec and its surroundings, which is systematically acquired, preserved, protected, processed, and professionally and scientifically presented. The collection covers the period since the 19th century, the year 1919, the period between the two world wars, World War II and the People's Liberation War, the post-war socialist period, and modern history, including the Homeland War.
Collection director: Tihana Kušenić, curator