Rogatec Open Air Museum

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Muzej na prostem Rogatec

Ptujska cesta 23, SI-3252 Rogatec

http://www.muzej-rogatec.si/ENGInfo.htm

muzej.rogatec@siol.net

Phone+386 (0) 3 81 86 200

Vili Bukšek, Director

Founded in 1981, Rogatec Open Air Museum is the largest open air museum in Slovenia. It presents unique cultural, ethnological, regional, historical features of eastern Slovenia. The museum presents the life and work of farmers and craftsmen at the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th, in the Rogatec area, particularly in the Boč, Donačka Gora and Macelj Hills. In 1999 it was declared a cultural site of national importance by order of the Government (Official Gazette of Slovenia, 18/99). In 1997 Rogatec Open Air Museum was nominated for European Museum Award.

Open Air Museum has 15 different relocated or reconstructed buildings and associated materials make up the museum space and form three separated sections. Homestead of poet Jože Šmid with the garden, outhouse with manure pit and field toilet, beehives, pig stable and hay rack. Administrative part are loden old shop with mixed merchandise that is today also a museum shop and office. In third part there is an domestic inn with wine cellar with bar called pušenšank surrounded with vines that give shadow and grapes.

Institution of Rogatec Heritage manages Open Air Museum Rogatec and Manor Strmol, Rogatec and it makes museum and open air museum packets presentations of local history and ethnology. Workshops and

See also

• Strmol Manor, Rogatec

External links

• Rogatec Open Air Museum website
• Rogatec Open Air Museum on burger.si website
• Rogatec Municipality website
• Rogatec Open Air Museum on Slovene Wikipedia