Radovljica Municipality Museums

The Radovljica Municipality Museums, established in 1963, is a municipal museum network organisation, which incorporates 5 museums: the Museum of Hostages in Begunje na Gorenjskem, the Kropa Iron Forging Museum, the Museum of Apiculture, the Municipal Museum of Radovljica, and the Šivec House Art Gallery.

The Radovljica Municipality Museums carry out public services in the fields of ethnology, history, art, arts and crafts. The main tasks are gathering, storage, preservation, documentation, teaching, and mediation of mobile cultural heritage. The network also engages in rich publishing activities including exhibition catalogues and monographic publications.

External links

Radovljica Municipality Museums website

Gallery

A collection of nails in the blacksmith's museum Kropa Iron Forging Museum in Radovljica

Detail Spomenik NOB (A monument to the National Liberation Struggle) built in 1966, architect Albert Sušnik, sculptors Marija Keržič and Stane Keržič. Kropa Iron Forging Museum in Radovljica

The term vigenjc – denoting a nail-smithy – is a rare word that was only used in Kropa and a couple of neighbouring settlements. During the 19th century Kropa had 19 such establishments, each of them having their own name. This is the only remaining one, named Vice.

A restored orchestrion from the early 20th century that is still playing eight different tunes, inscribed in small nails.

The Kropa Iron Forging Museum displays a part of the legacy of Joža Bertoncelj (1901–1976), a prominent Slovene metal-working artisan.

A model of the town of Kropa below an originally preserved cassette ceiling decorating the mansion that hosts the Kropa Iron Forging Museum.

The Kropa Iron Forging Museum portrays the historic development of iron casting by different replicas of the technology used.

The Kropa Iron Forging Museum offers various souvenirs related to decorative metalwork. This particular candlestick is based on a design by the renowned architect [[::Category:Plečnik_heritage|Jože Plečnik]].