Gallery ''Vjekoslav Karas''

Info Telefon: 047/412-381

Karlovac City Museum

Tuesday to Friday from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m., Saturdays and Sundays 10 to 12 a.m.

The Gallery was founded in 1945. and initially operated independently until 1953., when it became one of the departments of the Town Museum. The Museum opened its doors to the public with an exhibition of paintings by Vjekoslav Karas in 1954.

Because of the lack of space, the Gallery was moved to a new location in 1967. and is from that time known as the Vjekoslav Karas Gallery. In May of 1976. a new building was opened.
The importance of Karas’ work within our history is not only in his artistic value, but in the fact that he marked, as “our first native-born artist”, the beginning of the renewed emancipation of Croatian painting at a time when these parts were visited by numerous foreign travelling painters, of which but a few made their home here.

Karas made his imprint on the age in which he lived in spite of his fragmentary and non-systematic artistic training. From January 1838 he attended the Academy in Florence under master Guiseppe Meli, where he, among other things, copied old Italian masters. Between 1841 and 1847 (with a break in 1844, when he visited his homeland) he was in Rome, where he came into contact with the Nazarene Group. He returned to his home town of Karlovac in 1848, where he died on July 5th 1858.


Picture: Self-Portrait, unsigned, about 1845.
 

Karlovac Botanical Garden

Info Telefon: 047/615-980

Town Museum, Karlovac

The first botanical garden in Karlovac was arranged by the grammar school at Rakovac and it was established in 1870. Some particular tree species of this garden are preserved. In 1896 a new botanical garden was established by the mayor Josip Vrbanic. It was proclaimed by the Republic Institute for Protection in Zagreb for a horticultural monument because of its horticultural values. It was on 30 December 1970.

As a natural prolongation of that botanic garden on the ex Vunsko Pole in 1958, it was got some soil from the town for arranging a new botanical garden which was given a name by the known naturalist Ljudevit Rossi. Its plan was made by Mira Halanbek-Wenzler from Zagreb. In the period from 1965 till 1968 were planted 66 species of dendrologic material.

 

Karlovac Town Museum

mr. sc. Hrvojka Božić
Fax.: 047/615-981

Info Telefon: 047/615-980
Besucher-Email: gradski-muzej@ka.t-com.hr
http://www.gmk.hr/...

Year of foundation: 1904.
Museum has occasional exhibitions.

„On December 18, 1904, the city councillors of Karlovac passed a decision to found a municipal museum in order, as they said at the time, for the memories and antiquities of the city to be preserved. But it was only on July 12, 1911 that a museum committee of fifteen members was appointed; the committee sent out an appeal to the citizens for help in the collection of items, and the museum was lent a single room in the Magistrat – the city council chamber in reality – for interim use. Among the first objects given to the museum were guild-related objects; the Mijo Balaš Numismatic Collection, the Collection of Janko Mikić, who took part in the Congo expedition; the archives of the Illyrian reading room; various items of Hugo and Melkior Lukšić (a velocipede, wooden bicycle) and so on. During World War I, all the museum material was stored in the attic of the council hall, and the activity of the museum declined steeply and, in spite of certain initiatives, was not reinstituted until the end of World War II. On July 1945 the Gallery was founded, run by the painters Nikola Dragarić and Branko Kozina; the first real museal and expertly conceived work was started by Ivana Vrbanić in 1952. The next year the museum was allocated the building on Strossmayerov trg that it occupies today. (A building from the first half of the 17th century, built on orders of the general of Karlovac Vuk Krsto Fankopan, it is today the oldest extant specimen of residential architecture of the type curia – manor – put up within the fortress of Karlovac and is categorised as a cultural monument of great value.) In this Baroque urban palace the permanent museum display is on show, opened in 1996, as a renovated version of the 1990 display. The items on show tell of the flora and fauna of the Karlovac region, with an emphasis on ecological problems; they show the archaeological features of the environment; illustrate the traditional way of life in the countryside, and mostly show the history of the city from the founding of Karlovac fort to its development as centre of the Military Frontier to the 19th century commercial and transportation junction and cultural centre of a wider region. The museum has a rich collection of more than 8,000 objects. „ (Text and picture on top: MDC, below: museum)
 

Ozalj Local History Museum [ex: Regional Museum of Ozalj]

Silvija Huljina
Fax.: 047/731-170

Info Telefon: 047/732-271
Besucher-Email: muzoz@ka.t-com.hr

"The task of the museum is to involve visitors in parts of Croatian history, as the city and castle are connected to the history of the Frankopan, Zrinski and Batthayani families.

The museum is situated in Ozalj Burg, and the material is displayed in five rooms. A history of some 6,000 years is covered by the exhibits, from archaeological artefacts to the written history of the area. The materials derive from the New Stone Age, the Aeneolithic, the Roman period, the migrations of the peoples, the early Middle Ages and recent history. This is a unique space (ethnographically, linguistically and in terms of ownership) of the medieval feud of Ozalj that belonged to the Frankopan family, and represents a whole that is bounded on three sides by the Kupa River. The history is told in historical units. Particular stress is laid on the story of the Frankopan and Zrinski family, and of the Paulist order in the monastery in Svetice. Local history is presented up to World War I, i.e., until 1918: emigration to the US, education, construction of the railway line in 1913, the Museum of the Družba Braće Hrvatskog Zmaja in Ozalj Burg itself. Another emphasis is placed on the gallery of the paintings of the artist Slava Raškaj, while another topic is the hydroelectric power station in Ozalj, which was once known as the “lightning works” of the city of Karlovac, opened in 1908." (Text and picture: MDC)

Year of foundation: 1971.

 

Radatovići Ethnographic Collection

Tel.: 098-9878-203

Info Telefon: 098-9201-811

Ogulin Local History museum [ex: Regional Museum of Ogulin]

Nikolina Luketić
Fax.: 047/522-651

Info Telefon: 047/522-502, 522-915
Besucher-Email: pou-muzej.og@email.t-com.hr

Pučko otvoreno učilište Ogulin

Year of foundation: 1967.

"Ogulin Local History Museum was opened in 1967. It is housed in the converted rooms of the castle of the Frankopans that was built at the end of the 15th century. The museum works as part of the adult education institute of Ogulin; its brief is to collect, study, present and publicise historical, cultural and artistic material and documents from Ogulin town and from the environs. The holdings of the museum contain about 1,500 items of an archaeological, historical, ethnographic and artistic nature from the region of Ogulin. A special collection in the museum is the mountaineering display with material about hiking and mountaineering in Croatia. The collection was officially opened in 1984 on the occasion of the 110th anniversary celebrations of the Croatian Hiking Association. The collection contains original objects of Croatia’s most prominent mountaineers, and diverse documentation about this activity. Unique in Croatia and this part of Europe, the collection is continuing to develop and is added to by the valuable achievements of Croatian climbers. The museum possesses a library, which is open to users from outside." (Text and picture: MDC)