Etno-selo Kumrovec

**Etno-selo Kumrovec**
	; View of the village
Data
place	Kumrovec
Art	open air museum
opening	1953 (as Tito's birthplace)
Website	http://www.kumrovec.hr/museum-staro-selo/

The Museum Etno-selo Kumrovec ( German Village Museum Kumrovec ) is an ethnographic open-air museum in Kumrovec , Croatia and is located in the Croatian Hrvatsko Zagorje near the state border with Slovenia on the Sutle River. It belongs to the Museum of the Croatian Zagorje. It shows the folk architecture of the Zagorje in situ, originally preserved houses from the 19th and 20th centuries.

In the village stands the birthplace of the former Yugoslav President Josip Broz Tito , which was the starting point for the museum's activities.

history

The history of the museum begins in 1947 with ethnographic research by Marijana Gusic, director of the Zagreb Ethnological Museum in the Croatian Zagorje. She made a study of Kumrovec, and specifically Tito's birthplace. As a result, the house was restored to its original state, a monument to Tito was erected in 1948 and the gardens and interior furnishings of the house were renovated in the following years.

In 1953 the museum was opened as the "Marshal Tito Memorial Museum" as a division of the Ethnographic Museum in Zagreb. At that time a plan was developed for the restoration of the entire village center with 61 houses. The center of Staro Selo (the old village) has been registered in the register of cultural monuments since 1969 . In 1978 the spomen park Kumrovec was established and since 1992 the Staro Selo Museum has been a department of the Museum of the Croatian Zagorje with its headquarters in Gornja Stubica .

The museum

Today the museum comprises 25 houses, 9 farms and 8 outbuildings on an area of 1.2 hectares. Most of the 2,800 inventoried objects are shown as a permanent exhibition. In this old customs, the traditional way of life, crafts and trade are presented. In addition, historical people and events of the 19th century that were connected to the region are brought closer to the visitors. Many life-size dolls are used for representation.

Today several families live in the reconstructed center in their old houses, which have been preserved exclusively in situ. Other buildings whose residents did not want to live according to the specifications of the museum were purchased by the museum.