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Head: Zoran Homen, curator
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Križevci is depicted as a town of rich cultural and social
life, which helps us learn about many cultural associations
active in the 19th and the beginning of the 20th century,
such as the Public Reading-room (Narodna čitaona),
the Theatre Club (Kazališni klub), the Trading
Company Merkur (Mercury), the Women's Association
(Gospojinsko društvo), the literary association
Plug (Plough), the singers' association Bell
(Zvono), and many others. Prominent people of
Croatian cultural life are also mentioned, especially
those who were connected with the town in any way. The
opera singer Milena Šugh, the actress Nina Vavra, the
poet and philosopher, our first aestheticist and the first
Dean of the Faculty of Philosophy in Zagreb Franjo Marković,
and the opera singer and adherent to the Illyrian Movement
Alberto Štriga were all born there. The countess Sidonija
Rubido Erdödy, the opera singer who first sang in Croatian
in the first Croatian opera ever lived near Križevci,
in her castle in Gornja Rijeka. The local squire family
Kiepach was also extremely important for the area, which
secured them a prominent place in the Museum. Their genius
son Marcel Kiepach was still a child when his inventions
made him famous. The inventions included a dynamo and
a gyrocompass, gadgets without which it would be impossible
to drive a car or navigate a ship. The Cultural and Historical
Collection wraps up the general overview of the town history
through centuries. |
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