Opened: 2006.
Author: mr.sc. Borislav Bijelić, prof.
Artistic and urban design: mr. sc. Mario Beusan, prof.
Curator: Mateo Dragičević, mag. hist.
The permanent display of the Museum of Đakovo-region is conceptually conceived as a unique coherent unit based on its three collections: ethnological, cultural-historical and archeological – which are by the numbers and by quality of their exhibits the most relevant museum’s collections.
To the left of the front door, covering the area of 96.8 square meters is the permanent display of the historical and cultural development of Đakovo. It is organized in several showrooms, the first of which is a ticket office followed by 4 rooms and a corridor that in the chronological order represent 3 major units divided into thematic entities.
The first and the largest unit, which covers two rooms and the corridor is called “Đakovo from the 13th century to the 1940s”. The first room divided into several thematic entities represents the earliest history of Đakovo, its Osmanii period and the historical development of town in the 17th and 18th century. The rest of this unit shows the development of the middle-class during the 19th century and the first decades of the 20th . The central part of this thematic entity is the development of crafts and education, but also the exhibits representing activities of various associations and institutions.
The third showroom represents the interior of a middle-class salon furnished dominantly in the Biedermeier style. The fourth room belongs to the Patriotic war as a separate entity.
The permanent display of the historical and cultural development of Đakovo holds numerous objects and their interpretations through posters specially designed for the museum’s purpose by means of computer animation. Applied pictorial archivalia and textual summaries of all represented units enable the museum’s visitors to follow and understand the exhibited entities quite easily. The interpretations are set up at the entrance of each thematic unit. Apart from the posters there are magnified color prints of the pictures represented in this entity.