Međimurje County Museum, Local museum in Čakovec Castle, Croatia.
The Međimurje County Museum occupies the inner palace of Čakovec Castle and displays collections spanning archaeology, folk traditions, and regional history across its interconnected rooms. The exhibitions fill multiple levels of this medieval fortress and document how people lived in this area.
The museum was established in 1954 and later relocated to the palace interior of the castle fortress. Over time, it expanded its collections to show the region's development from ancient times through the modern era.
The ethnographic department holds collections of Međimurje folk costumes, rural crafts, farm and household objects, and folkloric creation, while the cultural-history department keeps the cehalija guild collection and a pharmacy and medicine collection. The visual arts gallery includes the memorial collection of painter and engraver Ladislav Kralj–Međimurec (1891–1976).
The museum is centrally located in Čakovec and easily accessible on foot. Visitors should allow several hours to see the exhibitions spread across different castle levels without feeling rushed.
The lapidarium in the inner courtyard of the Zrinski palace holds a large number of stone monuments displayed in the open air. The museum's holdings are divided into 51 collections, and the five departments together keep close to 19,000 exhibited items.
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