Cmurek Castle

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Grad Cmurek

Trate 7, SI-2213 Zgornja Velka

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Cmurek Castle veduta, 1681

First mentioned in 1148, the Cmurek Castle stands in Trate, on a cliff above the Mura river on the border with Austria. Its name, in fact, derives from the Austrian town of Cmurek (Mureck). From 1955 till 2004 it housed the Institution for mentally disabled Hrastovec – Trate. Nine years after its abandonment the castle became a nexus for a local initiative focused on the Museum of Madness. The cross-border innovative project strives to reactualise, detabooise and revitalise the castle. With a substantial amount of voluntary work and the support from both neighbouring municipalities (Šentilj from the Slovenian and Mureck from the Austrian side) and some institutional support it has turned into a unique cultural and community venue.

See also

• Museum of Madness

External links

• Cmurek Castle on Wikipedija (in Slovenian)

Gallery

Cmurek Castle veduta, 1681

Cmurek Castle inner courtyard, 2015

Cmurek Castle inner courtyard, 2015

The room emptied, a photo taken at the Cmurek Castle in 2014

After they had gone away. A photo taken at the Cmurek Castle in 2014

The view of the courtyard at the Cmurek Castle, 2015

The two-storey building of the Cmurek Castle, a mixture of Romanesque elements, the Renaissance arcades and several 18th Century extensions, has nowadays become a venue for interdisciplinary cultural events of the newly established Museum of Madness.

The Cmurek Castle arcade courtyard. The castle which functioned as an institution for mentally disabled from 1956 till 2004 became a decade later the site for the Museum of Madness project.

Madness and Creativity?" exhibition at the Museum of Madness at the Cmurek Castle. Works by Milojka Drobne and Johnny Fortmüller, 2015.

Anja Jerčič Jakob, Arven Šakti Kralj Szomi, Andrej Brumen Čop, Saša Bezjak, Milojka Drobne and Metod Frlic, a group portrait at the Museum of Madness, the Cmurek Castle, 2015

The Secret World of the Mura River, a part of the permanent exhibition at the Museum of Madness, Cmurek Castle, 2015

Portraits of some Classical music composers who suffered from a mental illness, a part of the permanent exhibition at the Museum of Madness, Cmurek Castle, 2015