Editing Vukovar (section)

===Vukovar Municipal Museum===
[[Vukovar Municipal Museum]]<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.facebook.com/Gradski-muzej-Vukovar-Vukovar-Municipal-Museum-866079006746945/|title=Gradski muzej Vukovar / Vukovar Municipal Museum|website=www.facebook.com|access-date=3 April 2018}}</ref> was founded in 1948 by a donation of Roman money, furniture, weapons, and paintings given to his city by Dr. [[Antun Bauer (museologist)|Antun Bauer]]. The museum started in the Coach Post Building in the old [[baroque]] centre, but was moved to [[Eltz Manor|Castle Eltz]] in 1966. Up until 1991 the museum had about 50 thousand exhibits in four separate divisions:

The Heritage Museum displayed the history of Vukovar from prehistory to modern times and some of its most important collections included the items excavated at the [[archaeological site]] Vučedol and the Culture and History Collection, which contained documents, furniture, and pieces of art, and provided an authentic display of the life of the citizens of Vukovar and the [[Eltz]] family.

For its work on the cultural restoration of Vukovar, revitalizing the devastated city and involving the local community in its work, the Vukovar Municipal Museum received the prestigious European Silletto award – EMYA 2016, awarded by the [[European Museum Forum]] in San Sebastian, Spain.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.topictolosa.com/emya/winners/|title=Winners – EMYA 2016}}</ref>

'''Bauer Collection and Art Gallery''' contained the most complete overview of modern Croatian art from the end of the 19th and the early 20th century with special emphasis on the period between the two world wars. Among more than one thousand pieces of art the Collection contained the works of [[Vlaho Bukovac]], [[Mato Celestin Medović]], Ico Kršnjavi, [[Ivan Meštrović]], Fran Kršinić, [[Emanuel Vidović]], and many others.

[[File:20230429.Ansichten von Vukovar.-038.3.jpg|thumb|right|Bauer Gallery on the banks of the [[Danube]] with the Old Red Water Tower, the oldest of the 3 Vukovar Water Towers.]]

'''Memorial Museum of the [[Lavoslav Ružička|Nobel Prize Winner Lavoslav Ružička]]''', located in the house where he was born, it displayed original documents and medals from the life and work of the Nobel Prize winner, who received this prestigious award in 1939 for [[chemistry]].

Memorial Museum of the [[League of Communists of Yugoslavia|2nd Congress of the Communist Party of Yugoslavia]] was located in the Workers' Hall building, former Grand Hotel, where the congress was held in 1920. The materials connected to the development of the [[labour movement]] and the founding of the [[Communist Party of Yugoslavia]] was exhibited and presented here.

During [[Croatian War of Independence]], Castle [[Eltz]] suffered significant damage and the collections which were kept there were also damaged: some of the exhibits were completely destroyed, some have disappeared and cannot be recovered, and some of them were taken to Serbia. After years of effort and diplomatic activity by the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Croatia that part of the collection was returned to Vukovar on 13 December 2001. In the period from 1991 to 1997 the Vukovar City Museum was operating in the [[Mimara Museum]] in [[Zagreb]].

Near the end of 1992 a collection was founded with the name Vukovar Museum in Exile which began the creation of a collection of donations by Croatian, and soon after also European, artists for the City of Vukovar. To this day that collection has gathered over 1400 pieces of modern Croatian and [[Art of Europe|European art]]. This collection represented the beginning of the cultural restoration of Vukovar and it is displayed at the restored Castle [[Eltz]] today, along with other museum collections which are part of the permanent collection of the museum.

Now that it is renovated, the Castle Eltz complex represents a unique museum and [[Art gallery|gallery]], science, and [[multimedia]] centre, which preserves and presents [[cultural heritage]] as an element of [[national identity]] and the continuity of life in this area.

In 2013 the Vukovar City Museum won a prestigious Anton Štifanić Award for special contributions to the development of tourism in the Republic of Croatia and in 2014 won the Simply the Best award.