Muzej grada Iloka

About the museum

The Muzej grada Iloka is a general and local heritage museum, founded in 1952 as the Gradski muzej at the initiative of Antun Bauer. It opened on 1 November 1952, and its first director and curator was Josip Meštrović. In 1969 it moved into the restored Odescalchi Castle. During the Homeland War (October 1991 – 1997) the museum operated from its seat in the Muzejski dokumentacijski centar (Museum Documentation Centre) in Zagreb.

Since 2005, research, the restoration of the monument complex and the castle, and a new museum display have been carried out as part of the project for the renewal and revitalisation of the cultural heritage of Ilok – Vukovar – Vučedol. The museum is in the fortress, on the site of the most important part of the medieval royal town of Nikola Iločki from the late 15th century.

The permanent display across the two floors of the castle follows the discontinuous cultural, artistic and spiritual development of Ilok: from the Copper Age, the Roman cemetery and the golden age of the Iločki family, through the Ottoman period and the administration of the Odescalchi princes, to the 19th century, the world wars and the Homeland War. On the first floor of the eastern wing is the Art Gallery, on the second floor the Spomen-galerija znamenitih Iločana (Memorial Gallery of Distinguished People from Ilok), and an ethnographic display in the attic.

Highlights

• Permanent display on two floors of the Odescalchi Castle, from prehistory to the Homeland War
• Golden age of the Iločki family and Nikola Iločki
• Baroque salon from the late 18th century
• Art Gallery and the Spomen-galerija znamenitih Iločana (Memorial Gallery of Distinguished People from Ilok)
• Ethnographic display of the Ilok area in the attic

Permanent exhibitions

• Stalni postav Muzeja grada Iloka – The display on two floors of the Odescalchi Castle shows the development of Ilok, Bapska, Šarengrad and Mohovo from prehistory and the Roman period, through the Middle Ages and Ottoman rule, to the 20th century and the return of the population after the Homeland War.
• Galerija umjetnina i Spomen-galerija znamenitih Iločana – On the first floor of the eastern wing is an art gallery, and on the second floor a memorial gallery of distinguished people from Ilok, among them Julije Benešić.

Founded

1952

Operated by

Muzej grada Iloka (javna ustanova)

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