Dolenjski muzej Novo mesto
Muzejska 7, SI-8000 Novo mesto
Phone386 (0) 7 373 1111, 386 (0) 7 373 1130
ProprietorNovo mesto Urban Municipality
Zdenko Picelj, Director
Phone386 (0) 41 315165
Dolenjska Museum Novo mesto
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Past Events
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24 Sep 2018
The opening of the exhibition of situla art Reflections of Prehistory in Bronze from the collection of the Dolenjska Museum Novo mesto, with a lecture about situla art by the exhibition's curator Borut Križ, supported by the Embassy of the Republic of Slovenia Podgorica,
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20 Nov 2015
The opening of the exhibition of situla art Reflections of Prehistory in Bronze from the collection of the Dolenjska Museum Novo mesto, curated by Borut Križ and supported by the Embassy of the Republic of Slovenia Podgorica,
History
The origins of Dolenjska Museum, Novo mesto may be traced back to the celebrations of the 500th anniversary of Novo mesto in 1865, when the first collection was established. A Museum Society was founded here in January 1941 and revived after World War II. The first permanent collections were displayed in 1953.
Programme
The museum carries out public service dealing with protecting, preserving, researching, exhibiting and popularising moveable cultural heritage from the fields of archaeology, ethnology, history, cultural history, and art history in the broader Dolenjska region. It represents a bridge between the history in textbooks and real remnants of the past. It widens knowledge with permanent and temporary exhibitions and with publishing activity.
The conservation restoration workshop organised within archaeological department maintains the archaeological heritage.
Today the museum encompasses a total of five buildings, holding six departments (archaeological, ethnological, recent history, art history, cultural history and education). The museum keeps over 22,000 historical objects, 3,000 of them displayed in permanent collections. It also presents changing exhibitions on historical and artistic themes, and undertakes research, publishing and exhibition activity, as well as systematic educational work.
Venues
The museum manages two satellites – the Jakac House, Novo mesto and the Camp Baza 20 Memorial Site, which includes cultural monuments of national importance Baza 20, partisan hospitals Zgornji Hrastnik and Jelendol with associated structures and burial places, which are owned by the Republic of Slovenia.
Collections
The museum houses five collections:
- art history collection of 1,400 different works of art, mostly paintings and graphics, drawings and artistic photographs, fragments of frescoes from Dolenjska castles and churches;
- recent history collection of 1,200 items and 19,000 photographs, numerous documents from the beginning of the 20th century to the present day, and an extensive collection of Partisan and enemy printed matter, presented in permanent exhibition, the curatorship also has its own archive;
- cultural history collection, housed in the Križatija premises, of 2,400 items (objects of applied art and pictorial items, furniture and weapons from the 16th to the 20th century,…), 4,000 original photographs and postcards, 8,500 negatives, 1,500 slides and 8,500 card-index photographs, two areas stand out: the history of Novo mesto and the operation of the ironworks at Dvor, presented to the public through publications, lectures and temporary exhibitions: Seals of Novo mesto, A Hundred Years of Cycling in Novo mesto, Novo mesto in Postcards, Embraced by the Waters of the Krka, The Colours – Town Guard – Music, Play!;
- ethnological collection, housed in Ropas' house, of 3,700 objects, 5,000 slides, 12,000 negatives and 11,000 prints mainly from the 19th and 20th century, presented in permanent and temporary exhibitions and accompanying catalogues and brochures;
- archaeological collection, housed in the Križatija building, of 15,000 complete archaeological objects from the late Stone Age up to the early Middle Ages, 20,000 colour slides, 23,000 black and white negatives, a substantial collection of digital photographs, 700 archaeological posters, presented in permanent and temporary exhibitions (Novo mesto before the Illyrians, The Chapter House Field, The Celts in Novo mesto, Draga pri Beli Cerkvi, Glass and Amber of Novo mesto) and accompanying catalogues and brochures.
Archeological field Dolenjska Museum.jpg
Exhibitons
Four permanent thematic exhibitions are on a display: archaeological exhibition Archaeological Image of Dolenjska, first set up in 1953, rearranged in 2008, houses on the ground and the first floor of Križatija building, and presents the settlement of the narrower area of Dolenjska, including Novo mesto and one of the largest central European archaeological sites, Kapiteljska njiva, and is among the most important such collections of movable heritage in Slovenia; ethnological exhibition on annual cycle of peasant work, paintings on glass, wooden folk sculptures and painted furniture and others, first set up in 1986, on the first floor of Ropas' house; exhibition of recent history (NOB), first established in 1981, presents the time from the first organised appearances of the workers’ movement before the World War II and up to the liberation of Novo mesto on 8 May 1945; exhibition on Leon Štukelj (1898–1999), the legend of sport and the native of Novo mesto.
Beside permanent there are many temporary exhibitions, mostly organised by museum departments>; in 2009 an exhibition on Beekeeping in Gorenjska and Dolenjska region in co-organisation with Radovljica Apiculture Museum.
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