”Old Village” Museum

About museum

The idea to include the old core of the Kumrovec settlement in monument protection measures was present as early as 1947, when Marijana Gušić ethnographically studied Hrvatsko Zagorje and wrote a study on the Kumrovec settlement with the central birth house of Josip Broz. In 1950, the cultural-historical and artistic part of the museum's exhibition was created by academic painter Edo Kovačević and prof. Zdenko Vojnović, director of the Museum of Arts and Crafts, while the home environment of the Broz family was arranged by prof. Gušić. In 1953, the Marshal Tito Memorial Museum was founded, which operated under the management of the Ethnographic Museum from Zagreb. The largest interventions in the arrangement and reconstruction of the "Old Village" were carried out in the period from 1979 to 1985.

Today, the ethno-village of Kumrovec is the largest traditionally landscaped area in Croatia, which evokes for visitors the authentic appearance of a Zagorje village from the beginning of the 20th century. With about forty renovated buildings of traditional construction, we learn how our ancestors lived. The arranged exhibits show the customs and everyday life of the peasant and his family on the one hand, and on the other hand various traditional trades with which the inhabitants of the villages of Zagorje ensured the existence of their families. There are traditional homesteads and gardens, barns and stables - all that made up the rich mosaic of life in the countryside. The restored birth house of Josip Broz Tito in the center of the village contains ethnographic and historical exhibits. In the Old School there is a reconstruction of the former classroom and the teacher's apartment.
In addition to viewing the permanent exhibitions that show the traditional way of life of the Hrvatsko Zagorje region at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries, the museum also offers numerous other interactive contents for visitors - events and workshops led by expert ethnologists in collaboration with masters of traditional crafts, and adapted at different ages.

General information

Address:
Josipa Broza 19
49295 Kumrovec
Phone: +385 (0) 49 225 840; +385 (0) 49 225 835
Museum manager: Anita Paun-Gadža, museum advisor
e-mail: mss@mhz.hr
e-mail: rezervacije-mss@mhz.hr
Web: mss.mhz.hr

Centre for Traditional Crafts, Knowledge and Skills of the "Old Village" Museum Kumrovec
The working hours of the Centre for Traditional Crafts, Knowledge and Skills for visitors are from Monday to Friday from 10:00 a.m. to 12:00 a.m.
Phone: +385 (0) 49 225 844
e-mail: craftattract@mhz.hr
Curator: Tihana Kušenić

”Old Village” Museum employees

HEAD OF ORGANIZATIONAL UNIT, "Old Village" Museum Kumrovec
Anita Paun-Gadža, prof. of phonetics and ethnology, museum advisor

Tatjana Brlek, univ. mag. prim. educ., museum advisor
Tihana Kušenić, grad. museologist and ethnologist, curator
Mateja Harapin, mag. education of visual culture, curator (educator)
Gabrijela Juričan, museum technician
Kristijan Bezjak, conservator-restorator technician of the II. degree
Josip Škvorc, conservator-restorator technician of the I. degree
Biserka Krajcar, operator
Nada Turk, clerk
Jasna Škreblin, housekeeper
Biserka Pecigus, housekeeper
Albin Greblički, other positions of the III. category (security guard)
Ivica Broz, other positions of the III. category (security guard)
Eduard Rumiha, other positions of the III. category (security guard-gardener)
Mario Županić, other positions of the III. category (gardener)