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Koroška Regional Museum in Slovenj Gradec, 2019.

In 2002 twelve municipalities in the Koroška region of Slovenia signed an agreement to constitute the Koroška Regional Museum which merged the former museums in Slovenj Gradec and in Ravne na Koroškem. The institution's headquarters and the central museum's premises are in Slovenj Gradec, where it shares the building (the former town hall) with the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art Koroška. The numerous permanent exhibitions and sites, however, have been managed throughout the Carinthia region.

History

The Slovenj Gradec Museum was originally established in 1951 as the district museum of the National Liberation Front. Its foundation is connected with the activities of teacher Bogdan Žolnir (1908–1997), who became the first director of the museum. In 1956 the museum moved to the second floor of the former town hall. In accordance with new specific needs connected with the protection of the natural and cultural heritage after 1986, it was transformed into a general regional museum. The museum was rehoused in 1991 and additional departments for archaeology, education, conservation, and restoration were formed. The Ravne na Koroškem Museum opened in 1953 at the Ravne Castle and has been dedicated to the technical heritage of the well-known steelworks.

Permanent exhibitions in the Koroška Regional Museum in Slovenj Gradec

Collection of Franc Tretjak (the African Collection)

Franc Tretjak (1914–2009) spent nearly 20 years in Africa as an economic consultant of the United Nations and donated to Slovenj Gradec his African collection consisting of domestic artefacts (vessels, ladles, calebashes, fans, baskets, musical instruments, tools, arms, etc) and items which have an ethnological value (cult objects including masks and statuettes, fetishes and amulets, objects of white and black magic, Nomoli statues and rare "antiques" from the African continent).

Dislocated museum units

The museum looks after numerous dislocated units and historic sites. Among them are the Radlje ob Dravi Museum, Church of St George in Legen, the Carinthian Plebiscite Museum, Libeliče, the World War II memorials Pauček Partisan Hospital, Partisan Hospital Tevakin, and the Gestapo Prisons at Dravograd; the ethnological collections Javnik Wood Rafting Museum, Muta Forge Museum, Hammer collection of Ferdinand Leitinger, and the Beekeeping collection, Črna na Koroškem.

Koroška Regional Museum oversees also the Birthplace of Hugo Wolf, a 19th century composer, the Prežihov Voranc Cottage, and the Memorial Room of Dr Ljuba Prenner.

Archaeological parks

In 2002 archaeologists found new archaeological sites and turned them into a park that is now part of the Ravne Castle - Streiteben. The medieval remains of the protection wall for Ravne Town can be seen on the east edge of the old part of town. The antique necropolis Kolaciona from Roman times (first to fourth century AD) was excavated near the roundabout on the road Stari Trg to Kotlje where now a reconstruction can be seen.

Another evidence of Roman settlement in these parts is Dovže Villa Rustica Park in Dovže near Mislinja where only tombstones and bases of a Roman villa with special heating system (hypokavst) are preserved. Next to the archaeological site the ethnological monument Stari Pušnik Homestead is evidence of Slovenian Folk Architecture.

External links

Koroška Regional Museum website

Gallery

Church of St George in Legen, 2019.

Display case at Franc Ksaver Meško Memorial Room, part of Koroška Regional Museum, 2019.

Ethnological objects on display at Koroška Regional Museum in Slovenj Gradec, 2019.

Koroška Regional Museum in Slovenj Gradec, 2019.

Franc Ksaver Meško Memorial Room, part of Koroška Regional Museum, 2019.

Collection of contemporary 20th century art at the Koroška Regional Museum in Slovenj Gradec, 2019.

Collection of Roman stone monuments exhibited at Koroška Regional Museum, 2019.

The Soklič Collection at the Koroška Regional Museum in Slovenj Gradec, 2019.

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