Double exhibition - Beyond Medvednica: Vesna Parun and Ballads of Vesna Parun

On Thursday, 20 June 2024, a double exhibition about the Croatian poet and translator Vesna Parun opened in the Veliki Tabor Castle - the Peasants' Revolt Museum exhibition "Beyond Medvednica: Vesna Parun" and the Museum of Prigorje's guest exhibition "Ballads of Vesna Parun". Those present at the opening were first greeted by the curator of the Veliki Tabor Castle, Paul Lekaj, and then the authors of the exhibition, professor of museology at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Zagreb, Žarka Vujić, museum advisor and head of the Peasants' Revolt Museum, Vlatka Filipčić Maligec, and director of the Museum of Prigorje, Morena Želja Želle, took the floor.

The exhibition "Beyond Medvednica: Vesna Parun" talks about Vesna Parun's relationship with Hrvatsko Zagorje and reveals why she considered this region her third homeland. In 1979, the fateful meetings with the poet Božidar Brezinščak Bagola and the beggar Magdica initiated the poet's deeper personal and creative connection with Hrvatsko Zagorje. The exhibition also presents the rich literary and artistic oeuvre that Parun created in the hotel and hospital in Stubičke Toplice, where she stayed intermittently until her death in 2010.

The Museum of Prigorje prepared the exhibition "Ballads of Vesna Parun" in 2020. This exhibition tells about Vesna Parun's relationship with Sesvete, the settlement where she lived with her family during the Second World War and post war when her father worked as a clerk in the building where the Museum of Prigorje is located today. The public was also presented with the writer's lesser-known artistic creations and personal objects that the Museum purchased from her friend Branko Pejnović.

The exhibition can be viewed until the end of September 2024.