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| name                = Alma M. Karlin Virtual Home
| localname           = Alma M. Karlin, virtualno domovanje
| street              = Mariborska 7
| town                = SI-3000 Celje
| telephone           = 386 (0) 3 426 1710 
| fax                 = 386 (0) 3 426 1711
| email               = sikce@knjiznica-celje.si
| website             = http://www.almakarlin.si/
| published by        = Celje Central Library
| contacts = {{Contact
| name                = Polona Rifelj
| role                = Celje Central Library Director
| telephone           = 386 (0) 3 426 1712
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This [[Alma M. Karlin Virtual Home|virtual residence]] is dedicated to [[Alma Karlin]] (1889&ndash;1950), an extraordinary traveller, polyglot, theosophist, and writer from Celje. From 1919 to 1927 she travelled to South and North America, the Pacific Islands, Australia, and various Asian countries and supported herself with odd jobs and writing. Her travel and fiction novels (written in German) became very popular in the 1930s (''The Odyssey of a Lonely Woman'' and ''The Spell of the South Sea'', a novel in two volumes was reprinted several times in the edition of over 100,000 copies). During the war her work was banned and in 1944 she joined the Partisans. After the war she lived in a small house in Pečovnik above Celje in straitened circumstances together with her companion [[Thea Schreiber Gamelin]]. 
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Alma's work had been forgotten till the 1960s when ethnologists began to study her collections. Nowadays [[Alma Karlin]] inspires artists, feminists, historians as well as the inhabitants of Celje and the general public. The Virtual Home website was conceived in [[established::2008]] by the [[Celje Central Library]] and offers basic information on her life, travels, and bibliography. 

==Alma Karlin collections in Slovenia==
[[Alma Karlin|Alma Karlin's]] legacy is scattered among several institutions. Most of the ethnological collection from her travels is held by the [[Celje Regional Museum]], which also prepared an exhibition in honour of the 120th anniversary of her birth (2009&ndash;2011). 

The [[Celje Museum of Recent History]] holds the Alma Karlin Fund with 850 items, mainly postwar correspondence, photographs, drawings and book covers by Alma and [[Thea Schreiber Gamelin]] as well as testimonials by people who knew her personally. 

Another important collection is maintained by the [[National and University Library (NUK)|NUK (National and University Library)]] [[NUK Manuscript Collection and Early Printed Collection|National Manuscript Collection]] which contains books, magazines, posters, and manuscripts (including her hand-made dictionary of 10 languages). In 2006 NUK displayed them in an exhibition which marked the 55th anniversary of her death.


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==See also==
*[[Celje Central Library]]
*[[Celje Regional Museum]]
*[[Celje Museum of Recent History]]
*[[NUK Manuscript Collection and Early Printed Collection]]

==External links==
*[http://www.almakarlin.si/ Alma Karlin Virtual Home project] (in Slovenian, English and German)
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alma_karlin Alma Karlin on Wikipedia] (in English and [http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alma_Karlin in German])
*[http://www.dlib.si/v2/Results.aspx?query=%27keywords%3dalma+karlin%27&pageSize=20 Alma Karlin] on [[DLib.si - Digital Library of Slovenia]]
*[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1661809/ ''The Odyssey of a Lonely Woman'' documentary on Alma Karlin on IMDb]

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