Museum of Ribnica

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Miklova hiša - Muzej

Miklova hiša, Škrabčev trg 21, SI-1310 Ribnica

http://www.miklovahisa.si/muzej/

muzej.mh@amis.net

Phone386 (0) 1 835 0376

Founded byRibnica Municipiality

Vesna Horžen, Director

miklova.hisa@siol.net

Mikl House Museum was founded in August 1958 on the initiative of the Slovene Museum Society and opened within the grounds of Ribnica Castle in September 1961. It now forms part of the Municipality of Ribnica's Mikl House cultural complex. Comprised of two parts, the administration premises is in Mikl House situated next to Ribnica Castle where the ethnographic museum is located. The museum houses a permanent exhibition focusing on the ethnographic heritage of the people from Ribnica and surroundings. Temporary exhibitions are also organised.

Documents from the 14th century first mention Ribnica's suha roba, wooden arts and crafts. With the 1492 merchant decree of Emperor Friderik III suha roba spread all over the Holy Roman Empire and provided the economic self-esteem to the people of the region who built-up Ribnica as a religious and cultural centre. The Nova Štifta baroque church was an important pilgrimage site in the 17th and 18th centuries. The Slovene Renaissance composer Jacobus Gallus Carniolus was born in Ribnica in 1550.

Mikl House Museum's permanent collections include: Wooden Ware and Pottery presenting the typical cottage industries of the Ribnica region including vessels, spoons, flooring, joinery products, tools, turned articles, wickerwork and toothpicks. The most widely known pottery form is the so called "horse that whistles through its rear". The other part of the permanent exhibition presents the real history of Ribnica, but follows the fairytale of how Ribnica was established. An archaeological exhibition on the oldest settlement in the Ribnica Valley depicts a remarkable prehistoric hill fort surrounded by three ramparts. In the defence tower of the castle an exhibition bearing the name Bloody Fight with the Witch Menace presents torture devices and documents from the actual trial of a witch hunt that happened in Ribnica in 1701.

Finally, an exhibition on emigrants from Ribnica area called Out of the House into the World portrays the period from the mid-19th century to the First World War, when many local people migrated to America.

A few minutes from the Mikl House Museum, an original blacksmith forge from the 19th century is preserved and on display.

See also

• Ribnica Castle
• Mikl House Gallery
• Mikl House Library

External links

• Mikl House Museum website (in Slovenian)
• Virtual Museum of Mikl House Museum temporary exhibition
• Exhibitions of Mikl House Museum (in Slovenian)
• Ribnica Castle on Milan's webpage
• VR panorama of Ribnica Castle on Burger.si website
• Castle Ribnica on Slovene Wikipedia
• Jacobus Gallus Carniolus on Wikipedia