And so, put together for the collection were variants of bedroom suites and on the whole individual examples of kitchen furniture (dressers, tables, chairs), representing the traditional arrangement of houses of the 1950s, still to be found today in some households. Apart from objects that have artistic value, the collection also holds objects that have no aesthetic worth but are important for the easier understanding of living in the past.

Individual objects from the furniture collection were looked at from the technological aspect, the manner in which they were produced from various kinds of wood suitable for working, like walnut, oak, beech, fir and cherry. The diversity of the use of the objects in the collection can be seen with respect to its functionality, and to the practical production, and examples of furniture for seating were collected (chairs, benches, stools), sleeping (beds and cradles), storage (chests, cabinets, wardrobes) and those upon which things could be placed (tables and side tables). The importance of individual objects analysed in this book is not so much in their economic value but in the meaning of the objects as part of everyday life and their role in the home and family. Furniture had a big role as indicator of social status and was considered just as important as clothing and personal objects (Lucie-Smith 2000: 8). The importance of objects in the furnishing of a house is thus depicted, as well as the way in which these objects affect the private and the social life of the family. Furniture in the life of the individual means much more than amenity or the meeting of everyday needs, it also represents the emotions of the people who possessed it, that had not only symbolic but also intimate roles in their lives. It was also proper to consider what each object in the museum collection meant for the person who bought and possessed it, how it was used within a given interior. Here great importance attached to museum documentation, photographic documentation, prints and drawings that enabled the consideration of the museum objects in a wider cultural and social context. It can be seen that the furniture can be very simply accommodated to the space and that it has multiple purposes. Since important events in the everyday life of people take place around some of these objects, they also have a social role. The importance of the visual and material culture as established process of identification has a central role in discourses of the heritage and the fostering of the memory of objects. This kind of approach to the topic underpinned the research into and interpretation of the collection of furniture in the contemporary museological context.