Weapons collection

The weapons collection features about 300 pieces of weapons and protective equipment or parts thereof. Today, it is difficult to determine which examples originate from the time when Trakošćan was a fortress, and which were subsequently procured as a court decoration. Nevertheless, the value of the collection is unquestionable, and by its typology and content it accompanies the military history of the Drašković family.

Malee weapons and protective equipment include about 230 pieces, and firearms about 70 pieces. Muskets and arquebuses as well as some mortars and early cannons could belong to the original defense system of the Trakošćan fortress in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, just as helmets and parts of the armor could be the remains of the original squad equipment of the seventeenth-century Trakošćan garrison.