Folk Museum Rogaška Slatina
Collection
The collection consists of more than 40 different sub-collections: hair samples, autographs and photos of famous people he met, political documents, money, old Tonka and Pelikan photos, oil paintings, sketches, sculptures, family pictures, poem collections, old books, old watches, objects by celebrities, etc. The Folk Museum of Nani Poljanec has the biggest private collection (documents, oil paintings, photos,...) of the Serbian and later old Yugoslav royal family of Karađorđevići (1903–1941). Among the treasures include a group photo of the first Russian Cosmonauts with original signatures and a letter from Nikola Tesla.
Museum's public exhibitions
The Folk Museum of Nani Poljanec had the first public presentation in Rogaška Slatina in the Old Post Office building in 2005. Outside of Rogaška Slatina Nani Poljanece presented the collections in Ljubljana in the Cabinet of the Domestic Research Society (2006) and in the Celje Museum of Recent History (2009).
Nani Poljanec's active and diverse way of life is also mirrored in the fact that the museum is currently in his private house in Rogaška Slatina. His cabinet study is small, but cosy, filled with so many precious objects which are only a small part of his big collection, that he has to store everywhere in his private home. His mission is to donate his private collections to the people of Rogaška Slatina. To establish a public museum that would properly store and present all what his museum has to offer, since Rogaška Slatina doesn't have any public museum that would present town's culture, history and people living in it.
Events and activities
Personality
Nani Poljanec organised the first concert of the group Laibach in Rogaška Slatina in 1993 with a set of public performances called Blacksmiths of Future. He is the manager of Teofil Milenković, a wunderkind musician who already had solo violin concerts when he was 6 years old. Nani impersonates Don Vito Corleone (Marlon Brando) from Godfather I in the Hri-bar Show, a satiric evening programme on Slovenian National Television. As Don Corleone singing the song "Bella mia" he participated in the 2007 competition to represent Slovenia at Eurovision and almost won.
As performer he had performance marathon of 48 hours in Kulturni Dom Rogaška Slatina with concerts, talks, plays, and presentations. He published the first Slovenian book on philography (the collecting of autographs).
Folk Faculty
Nani Poljanec established his own educational system and the Folk Faculty, where he is simultaneously the only student, professor, and rector. After every project he publicly gives himself a grade. Nani Poljanec aims to get a Majgisterij (as opposed to a Magisterij or master's degree) for Folk Art and Creation on 10 different subjects which derive from all of his interests. He plans to conclude his studies and end his life project in 2069, when he will be 101 years old and will become a Ph.D. on Folk Art and Creation.
KunstHaus Top Sekret Gallery
In 2011 with a group of friends and collaborators, Nani Poljanec established the exhibition space and salon, KunstHaus Top Sekret Gallery, for local intellectuals from the fields of "low" and "high" culture at a secret location. KunstHaus publishes its own fanzine with contributions in various languages.
International contacts
Nani Poljanec is Rogaška Slatina's cultural attaché and has close relations with descendants of the Serbian royal family of Karađorđevići. In 2009, on the occasion of the 75th anniversary of the murder of King Alexander Karađorđević (1934), he exhibited his collection as a guest of honour in the family's mansion in Oplenac, Serbia.
See Also
External links
- Nani Poljanec and his Folk Museum on YouTube (in Slovenian)
- Philographic Collection of Nani Poljanec on YouTube
- Ljudski muzej Nanija Poljanca in the Cabinet of the Domestic Research Society (in Slovenian)
- Hri-bar Show web pages (in Slovenian)
- Bella Mia on EMA contest for Eurovision Song (2007)