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| name                = Bloke Skier Museum
| local name          = Bloški smučar, stalna muzejska razstava
| street              = Nova vas 4a
| town                = SI-1385 Nova vas
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| website             = https://www.bloke.si/muzejska-razstava.html/
| founded by          = Municipality of Bloke
| managed by          = TIC Bloke 
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| contacts = {{Contact
| name                = Matej Pakiž
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| telephone           = 386 (0) 31 326 158
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The [[Bloke Skier Museum]] opened in [[established::2014]] with a permanent exhibition, situated in the hall of the municipal building. The local community has collected skiing equipment, old photographs, old newspaper articles and other documentation in order to present the Bloke skiing tradition that dates back to at least 17th century. The attractive multimedia exhibition is dedicated to "the old Bloke skier who unknowingly started a new chapter of human activity and enabled a worldwide skiing movement".
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The Bloke Plateau is the coldest place in Slovenia and the skis were used as a means of transportation. It was first mentioned in 1689 by the polymath [[Janez Vajkard Valvasor]] in his monumental encyclopaedic work ''Die Ehre des Herzogthums Crain'' (The Glory of the Duchy of Carniola). Even funerals were handled on skis. In the 1950s [[Boris Orel]], the first director of the [[Slovene Ethnographic Museum]], thoroughly researched the skis-related crafts and customs of this tradition. 

==See also==
* [[Slovene Ethnographic Museum]]
* [[Slovene Skiing Collection]]
* [[Stareslike.cerknica.org]]

==External links==
* [https://www.bloke.si/muzejska-razstava.html/ Bloke Skier Museum web page] (in Slovenian)


[[Category:Museums]]
[[Category:Specialised museums]]
[[Category:Sport]]
[[Category:Sport heritage]]