- Vukovar Town Museum
- The Baroque Town Centre
- Stage-Coach Post Office Building
- The Magistrates’ Building
- The Central Kirchbaum-Švarc Pharmacy
- Grand Hotel
- The Old Water Tower
- The Eltz Castle
- Vučedol
- Monuments to Victims of the War
- The Franciscan Monastery and the Church of St. Philip and Jacob
- Hrvatski Dom (The Town Theatre)
- The Srijem County Palace
- The House of Lavoslav Ružička
- The Church of St. Nicholas
- The Chapel of St. Rocco
- The Chapel of the Lady of the Oak (Priljevo)
- The Chapel of St. John Nepomuk
- The High School
- The Bećarski Cross
- Ovčara
- The Chapel of St. Paraskeva (Petka) at Dobra Voda
- War Victims Memorial Cemetery
- Water Tower
Vukovar Town Museum
The museum was founded in 1948, and its original collection comprised Roman coins, antique furniture, arms and weapons and paintings donated by Dr Antun Bauer. The Museum first resided in the Stage-coach Post Office Building located in the old Baroque centre of Vukovar, but in 1966 the collection was moved to the Eltz Castle. Before 1991, the Museum owned some 50,000 exhibits, divided into four separate sections:
The County Museum displayed the history of Vukovar from prehistoric days to the present. Its most valuable collections included the discoveries from the excavations at the Vučedol archaeological site, and a cultural/historical collection consisting of documents, furniture and pieces of art vividly depicting the life of the Vukovar bourgeoisie and the Eltz family.
The Bauer Collection of Arts presented an overview of modern Croatian art from the end of the 19th century and the first half of the 20th century, with a special emphasis on the period between the two world wars. Consisting of more than a thousand exhibits, the Collection included works by Vlaho Bukovac, Celestin Medović, Ico Kršnjavi, Ivan Meštrović, Frano Kršinić, Emanuel Vidović and many others.
The Nobel-prize Winner Lavoslav Ružička Memorial Museum, located in the house where he was born, contains original documents and medals linked to the life and work of the famous Nobel-prize winner, who won the prestigious prize for his discoveries in the field of Chemistry in 1939.
The Memorial Museum of the Second Congress of the Yugoslav Communist Party was located in the building of the Workers' Hall, originally the building of the Grand Hotel, where the Congress was held in 1920. The collection included materials documenting the development of the Workers' Movement and the founding of the Yugoslav Communist Party.
During the 1991-95 war, the Eltz Castle suffered severe damage, and the collections on its premises were also damaged. A part of the collection was completely destroyed, part disappeared without trace, and part was transported to Serbia. Following years of effort and diplomatic activities on the part of the Croatian Ministry of Culture, the exhibits were returned from Serbia to Vukovar on December 13th 2001. In the period 1991-1997, the remaining collections from the Vukovar Town Museum were transferred and displayed in the Mimara Museum in Zagreb. At the end of 1992, another collection was founded under the title of The Vukovar Town Museum in Exile, a collection of donations from Croatian, and later other European, artists who donated their work to the town of Vukovar. Today this collection consists of more than 1,400 works of contemporary Croatian and European art. This collection represents the start of the cultural reconstruction of Vukovar, and will be on permanent display in the reconstructed Eltz Castle, along with other museum collections. The Vukovar Town Museum is currently in the Eltz Castle, which is still under reconstruction. Upon its completion, the castle will be transformed into an integrated museum, gallery, science and multimedia centre preserving and presenting cultural heritage as the main element of national identity and the continuation of life in this region.
The Vukovar Town Museum is currently in the birth house of Nobel Prize winners Lavoslav Ružička.
Contact:
Vukovar Town Museum
Županijska 2
phone: (++385) 32 44 12 70
e-mail: rmaric@muzej-vukovar.hr
