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7 Sep 2018
The opening of the exhibition Colonel Captain Baldomir Podgornik and the First (Yugo)slavic Transoceanic Merchant Ship Rog, curated by Duška Žitko and organised by the Sergej Mašera Maritime Museum, Piran and the Maritime Museum Monte Negro Kotor, with Franko Juri, director of the museum as guest speaker, supported by the Embassy of the Republic of Slovenia Podgorica,
24 Feb 2017
17 Apr 2017
An exhibition about the baroque composer and violinist Guiseppe Tartini,co-organised by the Sergej Mašera Maritime Museum, Piran,
4 Dec 2015
4 Feb 2016
Tartini 1692-1770, an exhibition on the life and work of Guiseppe Tartini, produced in cooperation with the Sergej Mašera Maritime Museum, Piran, and an opening concert by pianist Bojan Glavina and the Tartini Musical Studio
30 Oct 2013
8 Nov 2013
Adristorical Lands, a photo exhibition on the history, culture, tourism, arts, and ancient crafts in the European Adriatic territory, also featuring photographs of the Slovene coast of Piran and Sečovlje salts flats by Maja Bjelica, supported by the Sergej Mašera Maritime Museum, Piran and the Embassy of the Republic of Slovenia London,
1 Jul 2011
15 Sep 2011
With a Fibula into Fable exhibition organised by Koper Regional Museum, Sergej Mašera Maritime Museum, Goriška Museum, Tolmin Museum, Ptuj – Ormož Regional Museum, and Notranjska Museum, Postojna
The museum is named after hero Sergej Mašera (1912-1941), artillery officer in the former Yugoslav army and lieutenant of warships Zagreb.
The Gabrielli Palace, built in the middle of the 19th century, stands on the south-east side of the inner harbour of Piran. The façade, marked with the central axis, enrich the classical elements, thought the effect is reduced by unfinished north wing. A columned stone staircase shapes the inside of the palace, decorated at piano nobile with original paintings and stucco.
The museum collects, studies, preserves and presents the maritime tangible and intangible heritage of the coastal region and economic branches connected with the sea. It defines Slovenia for maritime country in the common Mediterranean and European area.
In 1979, as the result of co-operation with Slovenia's only shipping company Splošna plovba Piran (Portorož), a branch maritime collection was installed in the villa of St Mark in Portorož, that is temporary closed. Two years later in 1981 Tona's House, an old Istrian dwelling in the village of St Peter on the Dragonja, was renovated and opened as an ethnological collection. A third branch museum collection was opened in 1991 following the renovation of a house in the Sečovlje saltpans; in the following years other houses in this location were renovated and the number of the saltpans was increased.
Street Museum Izola, cosponsored by PHARE, with the permanent collection of ship in the Alme Vivode street presents a new way to attract the public. The first phase of the project was realised in 2004 in cooperation with Italian institutions engaging in the revitalization of city centres and in the preservation, presentation, and popularisation of the common cultural and historical heritage in the area of Aquileia (Italy).
The museum manages collections, which are on display on the three stories of the Gabrielli Palace if not indicated differently: archaeological collection with the permanent exhibition Between Land and Sea; salt-making collection in the Museum of Salt Making, Sečovlje; ethnological fishing collection of pictures and objects dealing with sea-fishing at Izola, fishing among the Slovenes in Slovene ethnic territory from Trieste to the Timavo river; art history collection of Fr Gabriel Gruber’s (1740–1805) ship models, seamen’s votive tablets, ship figureheads; maritime history collection of early maritime history, Austrian and Austro-Hungarian period, and of Slovene mariners in 1918–1945; collection of Splošna plovba Portorož in Portorož; ethnological collection in the Tona’s House; library of 14,000 books, consists of the research library, the town archives and the old Civic Library, Biblioteca Civica di Pirano, many books date back to the 16th century, the oldest one being from 1501. Among the most interesting books are the comprehensive late 18th century Encyclopaedia by Diderot, and the only fully preserved Atlas from 1526 by Pietro Coppo from Izola.
Since 1995 the harbour in front of port of Piran in front of the Sergej Mašera Maritime Museum has housed the museum's first renovated ship - a yacht Seagull [Galeb] (of the cutter M6 type) previously owned by world-famous ballet dancers Pia and Pino Mlakar. In 2004 Seagull won the boat-race of old-timers in Trieste.
It is a member of the International Congress of Maritime Museums (ICMM) and a founding member of the Association of Mediterranean Maritime Museums (AMMM).
The museum publishes monographies and catalogues of the temporary exhibitions concerning maritime topics. In 2009 the museum started publishing a serial publication Izvestja pomorskega muzeja Piran = Strenna del Museo del mare di Pirano. Museum experts publish their articles also in the Annales Journal.
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