Cave Železna jama and Caving Collection

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Železna jama in zbirka v jamarskem domu

Dom na Gorjuši, Gorjuša pri Domžalah, SI-1233 Dob pri Domžalah

http://www.burger.si/Jame/ZeleznaJama/ZeleznaJama_Uvod.html

Phone386 (0) 1 721 1832, 386 (0) 1 724 1577, 386 (0) 41 663057, 386 (0) 41 909949

ProprietorSimon Robič Society for Cave Research

Ales Strazar, Curator

ales.strazar@helios.si

Founded in 1961, the Simon Robič Society for Cave Research opened Železna jama ('Iron Cave') to the public in 1963 and in the following years set up a permanent exhibition of caving objects in the Caver's Club. The memorial room, devoted to 19th-century biologist and speleologist Simon Robič, contains a caving collection, a geological collection, archaeological finds from the nearby Babja jama cave, the Franz Hohenwarth Collection of stalagmites and stalactites and a collection of fossils and rocks. Since 1992 it has also held a collection from the straw hat industry that characterised the Domžale region in the early 20th century, and parts of a B-24 bomber that crashed in the vicinity during the Second World War.