The Nasice Native Museum was established in 1974. It is a complex institution, the activities of which cover the city of Nasice and its surrounding region.
It is located in the city centre, at the manor-house once owned by the famous local noble family of Pejacevici, a category I cultural monument, built in 1811. This single-storey late Baroque manor-house with some classicist features is situated in a large park of the English type.
Lateral towers and a Baroque entrance have been added in 1864.
The Museum is characterized by rather small thematic units exhibited in separate rooms, providing it with a special kind of charm and liveliness.
A selection from the Ethnographic Collection - which is the richest one at the Museum - shows the interior of a typical three-room rural house from the beginning of the century, as well as the region's traditional way of living. On display are also items associated with popular handicraft - especially textile, timber products, and traditional folk musical instruments.
The pottery products from Fericanci constitute a unit apart. This, once highly renowned Slavonia's pottery centre, has been presented in the form of a potter's workshop with all the necessary tools and equipment, as well as a rich selection of products.
The Nasice region's historical review has been presented using archeological finds, as well as historical, and cultural-historical materials collected in the area.
Distinguished persons born in Nasice or their surroundings: Izidor Krsnjavi, Dora Pejacevic, Hinko Juhn, and Mate Benkovic, have their own separate memorial rooms. The "Izidor Krsnjavi" Gallery is also a part of the Museum's holdings. Its exhibition on permanent display consists of a selection of works by artists associated with Nasice region through origin, birth, or residence. There is also a separate collection consisting of the works by ceramists participating in the "Hinko Juhn" art colony. Temporary exhibitions take place at the mansion's Grand Salon. Hunting and mineralogical collections are currently under establishment (the holdings are already there, soon about to be put on display), along with the Pejacevic Family Collection.
Since the Museum's very establishment, considerable efforts have been invested into the expansion of its holdings, particularly those ethnographic, by Prof. Ivana Jurkovic, former Museum's Director, now retired.
The Park
The large English type park surrounding the manor-house had initially surrounded only the building's immediate vicinity. Later, around 1864, it was expanded towards the creek and added an artificial pond shaped as a swan.
The park is dominated by a common oak/hornbeam forrest, with numerous autochthonous specimens that are extremely old (for example, 300 years old common oak trees).
Towards the beginning of the century (in 1909), another manor-house was built in the park, by the same owners, after the model of Potsdam's Sanssouci. It is surrounded by a French style park with paths leading to the large park, surrounding and connecting both buildings.
Pejacevici of Virovitica were one among the oldest and most distinguished noble families in Slavonia, to where they had come from Bulgaria. In 1696, emperor Leopold I granted to Petar Pejacevic the holy Roman Empire's noble rank. Later, Pejacevici evolved into two lines: the Ruma and the Nasice one. The latter gave two Croatian Vice-Roys: Ladislav and Teodor, as well as Croatia's first woman composer: Dora Pejacevic.
