Celje Regional Museum

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Pokrajinski muzej Celje

Muzejski trg 1, SI-3000 Celje

http://www2.arnes.si/~pokmuzce

info@pokmuz-ce.si

Phone386 (0) 3 544 2633, 386 (0) 3 428 0950, 386 (0) 3 428 0962

ProprietorCelje Regional Museum

Darja Pirkmajer, Director

Events abroad

Past Events

• 15 Sep 2023

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  23 Nov 2023

  Germany Frankfurt am Main Haus am Dom – Katholische Akademie Rabanus Maurus

  
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  Exhibition "Alma Maksimilijana Karlin - Authoress", showcasing the writer's life and work. In the scope of Slovenia – Guest of Honour Country at the Frankfurt Book Fair 2023 and made possible by Municipality of Celje, Slovenian Book Agency, Celje Regional Museum, Celje Museum of Recent History and Slovene Ethnographic Museum.

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• 16 Sep 2021

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  18 Jan 2022

  Austria Vienna Weltmuseum Wien

  
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  Alma M. Karlin - Alone Around the World, an exhibition prepared by the Celje Regional Museum, supported by the Ministry of Culture and Embassy of the Republic of Slovenia Vienna

  
  

  
  

  
  

• 5 May 2015

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  12 May 2015

  Croatia Krapina Pučko otvoreno učilište Krapina

  
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  ABC Arhivska Barbara Celjska, an exhibition from the collections of the Historical Archives Celje and Celje Regional Museum

  
  

  
  

  
  

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Celje Regional Museum was founded in 1882 at the premises of the present-day Celje Music School, but already in the 1920s the city council discussed the option of moving the museum to the Old Counts' Mansion, a late Renaissance building. It was only after the Second World War that the Mansion was renovated to be used as a museum, presenting cultural, historical and ethnological objects from Celje and its environs. Celje Municipal Museum was renamed the Celje Regional Museum in 1966. In 1990 it was nominated for the European Museum of the Year award.

The first part of the collection occupies an area of 240 square metres and presents eras from the Stone Age (Potočka zijalka site) to the late Roman period of Celea. A Roman lapidary collection with an area of 440 square metres in the cellars of the Old Counts' Mansion is supplemented with the outdoor lapidary collection of architectural remains of public and private buildings and a rich collection of milestones. In the Major Hall, the famous 'Celje Ceiling' in tempera on canvas (14.45m x 9.7m) is a singular example of secular painting from the turn of the 16th and 17th centuries in Slovenia. The museum also houses important Renaissance, Baroque, Rococo, Classicist, Empire, Biedermeier and Historicist paintings, sculpture, frescoes, furniture and furnishings, clocks, miniatures and portraits. The ethnological collection on the ground floor features a wide spectrum of exhibits belonging to the material and spiritual culture of the population of the wider Celje region (ploughing implements, small agricultural tools, milk processing implements, accessories for processing flax and wool, small kitchen utensils, lights and textiles, woodworking products) and a collection of folk art.

The museum has over 370 beehive panels from the Zadrečka dolina and Savinja valleys. The numismatic collection covers an area of 60 square metres and the period from the Late Iron Age until the 20th century. Celje is the only town in Slovenia that had its own mint twice in the course of two millennia (in the 1st century BCE under the Kelts and again in the 15th century). The collection of old Savinja ceramics in the museum is one of the most exquisite and richest collections in Slovenia; it presents products from various ceramic factories established in the 19th century. A special 53 square-metre area on the ground floor of the Old Count's Mansion is dedicated to Alma M Karlin, an intellectual from the Romantic period who was born in Celje in 1889, studied languages in London brought back a substantial collection of objects from her extensive journeys around the world.

The museum’s satellite historical sites include the restored remains of a temple of Hercules from the 2nd century CE located on a terrace of Miklavški hrib on the Savinja left bank; the restored remains of a baptismal site dating from the 5th century CE; Rifnik Archaeological Site; the Šempeter v Savinjski Dolini Roman Necropolis in nearby Šempeter; the Potočka Zijalka Paleolithic Cave findings in Logarska Dolina; Museum Collection in Dobrna (Old Horse Stud), the Schwentner House in Vransko and the Planina Museum Collection.

See also

• Rifnik Archaeological Site
• Šempeter v Savinjski Dolini Roman Necropolis