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Varaždin City Museum was founded following the initiative of Varaždin Museum Society and was formally opened for visitors on 16th November 1925 in the premises of the fortress called The Old Town. The basic items of the first permanent exhibition were the objects given to the Museum by renowned Varaždin families.

In the course of the years that followed the holdings got larger and richer and the Museum turned into a complex institution made up of six specialized departments: Archeological, History, Culture and History, Ethnographical, Entomological Departments and the Gallery of Old and Contemporary Masters. Apart from specialized departments there is also Administrative Services Department (Uprava GMV-a) ) which deals with administrative and legal services, accounting and general services, and also a department in charge of restoration and preparation services. Today the Museum departments are situated in several buildings of historical value, some of them in the historical town centre, others in the Old Town, a Gothic-renaissance fortress, in the baroque Sermage Palace, classicist Herzer Palace and the Watchtower as a part of The Old Town complex.

The Museum departments include four permanent museum exhibitions: Culture and History Department in the Old Town, Entomological Department in the Herzer Palace and the Gallery of Old and Contemporary Masters in the Sermage Palace. The Archeological and History Department will soon open in the premises of the Herzer Palace, where visitors will be able to see yet another permanent display.
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