Virovitica City Museum

Virtovica / Croatia
2022

Jury justification

Finding the way to make a museum the best is not easy – or perhaps it is. This city museum found the answer to the challenge in a combination of determination,
knowledge, ideas, and above all the opportunity and the will to create something different and special.
The institution has managed to combine all these principles into an excellent concept to complement and highlight its social role in protection and promotion of the
local cultural heritage by emphasising universal natural and cultural values, thus becoming an exceptional one.
Regional and city museums are often faced with the question of how to present the history of the territory, the peoples living within its borders from ancient times to
the present day, and how to reveal their testimonies, which unite and identify them in sharing pride in and the memory of the past.
This museum has discovered its theme, its object, its material, closely connected with the history of the region and with all mankind, with life on Earth and at the
present time with the joint human responsibility against its exploitation. The material in question is wood. This represents the essence of the content the museum has
created and transferred in an up-to-date way into a comprehensive story and a uniquely engaging exhibition project – a great attraction to the large number of visitors to both the physical museum and the virtual one.