Trenčín Museum

The Trenčín Museum is a cultural and scientific institute in the Slovak city of Trenčín .

history

The forerunner of the museum was the scientific union of the Trenčín Gaus, which was founded in 1877. The Trenčín Museum was created through the merger with the Museum Society in 1912. The first chairman was Karol Brančík , a fun doctor and an internationally renowned entomologist .

Collections

The Trenčín Museum has a scientific tradition. As a regional museum , this institution owns and manages various collections. The collections consist, among other things, of historical, art history, natural history, literary history and regional history collections. There are also rich collections from the field of numismatics , religious orders , militaria and weapons, handicrafts and old postcards.

The most valuable museum collection includes a collection of paintings by the Ilesházi family. The Ilesházi were the main and heirs of the Trenčín and Liptov Gaus, lords of the Trenčín castle in the period between 1594 and 1835.

In addition to the main building on Mierové námestie Square , the Gauhaus, the Trenčín Museum also manages the Trenčín Castle with several exhibitions, the ossuary of St. Michael , the so-called Executioner's House and several exhibitions outside Trenčín. In the branch in Nové Mesto nad Váhom there is an exhibition of the history of this town and the surrounding area. In the Ambro mansion in Beckov an exhibition is dedicated to the history of this town, the Tatrín League and the important national awakening Josef Miloslav Hurban .

In addition to the history of the town of Čachtice, the exhibition in Čachtice also reminds of the blood countess Elisabeth Báthory . In the neighboring village of Očkov there is a prince's grave mound from the period of the Velatice-Willensdorf culture of the early Bronze Age and in Bzince pod Javorinou you can see the memorial room of the writer Ľudmila Podjavorinská .

The strategic location of the city of Trenčín near the Waagfurten and important Carpathian passes was already registered by the ancient Romans, as evidenced by the “Roman inscription” on the Trenčín castle rock, which the legate of the Second Auxiliary Legion Marcus Valerius in 179 AD in honor of the victory of the emperor Marcus Aurelius and his son Commodus.

The exhibition “From the history and culture of the free royal city of Trenčín and the former Trenčín Gaus”, opened in 2008, is located on the 1st floor of the Trenčín Museum, in the so-called Gauhaus. The individual sections of the exhibition are devoted to the natural sciences, art history, history, archeology and folklore. A section acquaints visitors with the history and traditions of the Trenčín region.

The management of the museum decided to use the congregational space for a variety of purposes, where exhibits of the art and history of the city of Trenčín and the former Trenčín district are located. The free space in the middle is for the organization of cultural events, e.g. B. music events determined.

Of the art exhibits, the portraits of former Gauleiter and Gaubeamter, most of which are painted life-size, are significant. Most of them were painted by masters of their time, such as BM Barabás, the official portraitist of the highest Hungarian nobility.

The representative portrait of Mathias Čák von Trenčín, by the Spiš painter Theodor Boemm, is one of the best portraits of the magnate. The arts and crafts area is represented by a collection of historical clocks, the oldest of which is a painted baroque iron clock of the "Lucerne type" from the 17th century. The two-part vases made of rose glass with an engraved portrait decoration were made in a now defunct glass factory in Uhrovec for the national exhibition that was held in Budapest in 1885.

Other exhibits include a baroque majolica flower pot from the Ilesházi residence in Dubnica nad Váhom , Haban ceramics, pewter plates, fans and carved pipes (made from meerschaum). There is an estate of Pope Leo XIII in the museum . Pope Pius X gave the Trenčín museum community richly embroidered shoes, a collar and a silk pileolus .

The introductory, natural science section of the exhibition is the story of Dr. Dedicated to Karol Brančík, the founder and first director of the Trenčín Museum and the Scientific Community of the Trenčín Region founded in 1877. This section contains authentic objects and natural objects from Brančík's collection, including 700 specimens of butterflies and other insects, written and topographical documentation, original insect drawings, natural objects and land motifs from the trips. In the archaeological department there is an overview of several finds and archaeological sites of the Trenčín region from prehistoric times to the early Middle Ages. Further exhibits are stone tools of prehistoric man, ceramic vessels, urns, copper and bronze weapons, tools and jewelry, products of the earlier Iron Age, Roman finds, coins, grave goods, Slavic weapons and spurs of the Great Moravian horsemen.

There is a regional exhibition in another room. A collection of folk clothes represents traditional costumes from the Trenčín area. The collection of folk art and utility ceramics documents characteristic features of Trenčín ceramics, as well as the idiosyncratic regional art phenomenon. An important part of the exhibition is also a collection of stained glass and a collection of wooden sacred sculptures, which consist of the motifs of the Mother of God, a characteristic type of piety, and a repeatedly published Christ on the cross. The collection also includes two large wooden figural beehives.

Coordinates: 48 ° 53  '44.2 " N , 18 ° 2' 38.2"  E