Arheoloski muzej, Slavonia, Croatia

4periandro 5:00 PM Dec 27, 2017

Very illustrative museum
The Archaeological Museum Osijek is located in Tvrđa, which is the old baroque core of the city. The building which houses that Museum is called the Main Guard Building. It encompasses in fact two sub-buildings structures: the City Guard and the Brožan House. The Archaeological Museum is a part of the Museum of Slavonia which, apart from the stated building also occupies the Magistrates Building, on the side of Trg Sv. Trojstva opposite to that where the Main Guard Building stands, which is the oldest building in Osijek. The Main Guard Building was constructed at the beginning of the second quarter of the eighteenth century to be destined to serve the needs of the Tvrđa military guard. As a matter of fact, an indication that it was used for military purposes is its massive structure as well as a watchtower with a Moorish-Venetian style dome. The building itself is very nice with its arcades on the ground floor and its robust bell tower including a clock and a terrace rising in the middle of the building façade. The Archaeological Museum in that Building was inaugurated in 2012 after its restoration in 2007. The exhibition which can be beheld in the Museum concerned is very interesting. It comprehends different items from diverse epochs and cultures, from pottery objects produced some 2.500 years before Christ to keys and other metal working objects from the fourteenth to the sixteenth centuries. Among other elements, one can observe there fine examples of the Starčevo Culture, which is the first Neolithic population in Slavonia, such as ceramic vessels fired in an oxidising atmosphere and ceramic items of symbolic nature: anthropomorphic figurines, animal images, altars, etc. Besides, there are also in that Museum tools made of animal bones, wood or stone. As regards the last mentioned ones it can be said that in the Neolithic stone remained the only raw material that could be used for making permanent tools for cutting. The Museum is very illustrative as far as all relevant aspects of the stated cultures are concerned. Everything which can be contemplated in it is highly interesting and most of items are a pleasure at sight. Consequently it’s quite advisable to visit the Archaeological Museum when going to Osijek.

4Olga V 5:00 PM Apr 8, 2016

Small but nice
In the centar of old castle (Tvrdja) are few old palaces and one of that becomes Arcehological Museum. You could see beginig of life in this area, Roman period nad medieval time. On the ground part are exhibition space. This permanent part is very nice- nothing specila, but really nice.