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| status       = PHOTO
| maintainer   = Anže Zorman
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{{Infobox
| name                = Technical Museum of Slovenia
| localname           = Tehniški muzej Slovenije (TMS)
| logo                = Technical Museum of Slovenia (logo).svg
| street              = Bistra 6
| town                = SI-1353 Borovnica
| map                = http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lon=14.3334&lat=45.94741&zoom=15&layer=mapnik
| telephone           = 386 (0) 1 750 6670
| fax                 = 386 (0) 1 750 6676
| email               = info@tms.si
| website             = http://www.tms.si
| founded by          = Government of the Republic of Slovenia
| contacts = 
{{Contact
| name                = Office
| role                = 
| street              = Tržaška cesta 2
| town                = SI-1000 Ljubljana
| telephone           = 386 (0) 1 436 1606
| email               = 
}}
{{Contact
| name                = Barbara Juršič	
| role                = Director
| telephone           = 386 (0) 1 251 5407
| email               = barbara.jursic@tms.si
}}
{{Contact
| name                = Katarina Batagelj
| role                = Public relations
| telephone           = 386 (0) 1 251 5400
| email               = info@tms.si
}}
| opening hours       = 8am-4pm Tue-Fri (10am-6pm in July-August), 9am-5pm Sat, 10am-6pm Sun and holidays, closed 4 Dec – 1 March and 1 November
|accounts=
http://twitter.com/TehniskimuzejSl
http://www.facebook.com/TehniskiMuzejSlovenije
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC3XEc4tYhqDUNlXaJu9gZjw
}}

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{{Wide image|Technical Museum of Slovenia collection.JPG}}

Founded in [[established::1951]], the [[Technical Museum of Slovenia]] (TMS) aims to to research, collect and exhibit Slovenia's technical heritage, as well as to protect the historically important technical buildings, installations and machines. Its collections (historically) elaborate on various topics such as cars, bicycles and other vehicles; the sawing, woodworking, textile and milling industries; printing and bookmaking; telecommunications services; and so on.

Aside from its core premises and collections, the museum also manages various satellites, including the [[Bogenšperk Castle]], the [[Pantz Forester's Gravity Cableway]], the [[Museum of Post and Telecommunications]], and the [[Soteska Depot of Vehicles]]. In 2017 the Open Depot exhibition of the three national museums opened in the [[Park of Military History Pivka]].
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== History ==

Since its establishment the Technical Museum has been housed within the buildings of the former [[Bistra Carthusian Monastery]], which had been managed since 1947 by the Forestry Institute of Slovenia and then already used to house the institute's museum collections. When it was founded in 1951 (on the initiative of [[Ciril Rekar]] and the Association of Engineers and Technicians) the Technical Museum of Slovenia consequently strongly focused on the previously existing institute's forestry, woodworking and hunting collections. It opened its doors in 1953. 

However, during its long history the museum managed a number of collections that later became independent institutions, including the [[Kropa Iron Forging Museum]], the [[Koroška Regional Museum, Ravne na Koroškem Unit|Ravne na Koroškem Museum]], the [[Idrija Municipal Museum]] and the [[Coal Mining Museum of Slovenia]] in Velenje.

{{Wide image|An aerial photo of the museum 2014 Technical Museum of Slovenia.jpg}}

== Collections ==

The Forestry and Woodworking Department is displayed in a 300-square-metre exhibition area. The Hunting Museum Collection, originating in 1947, occupies a 700-square-metre exhibition area equipped with computer-supported multimedia as well as film and sound recordings. The Fishing Department, opened later, in 1982, also incorporates an ecology section.

The Transportation Department occupies the largest exhibition area of about 2,500 square metres, and includes a collection depicting the development of automobile traffic in Slovenia territory and various Slovene road vehicles (the oldest ones being from 1906); a collection of prestigious presidential limousines formerly owned by the one-time leader of Yugoslavia, Josip Broz Tito; a rich collection of bicycles, tracing its long development from the beginning of the 19th century onward; a collection of automobiles on a long-term loan from the German Technical Museum in Berlin; and the Motorcycle collection, with motorbikes that were commonly found in the Slovene territory during the last century or so, also featuring the Slovene-built Tomos motorcycles that make up the the Motorcycles from Koper exhibition. 

The Textile Department presents the history of spinning and weaving and the machine production of fabrics. The collection of the Electric Machinery & Electrical Engineering Department presents the history of electrification in Slovenia. The museum also hosts a Woodworking collection and the Agriculture department. A special place in the museum is allocated to water powered machinery and tools: the Venetian sawmill, the Veneer sawmill, waterwheels used to power such smithy devices as a sledge hammer, the mill, the fulling mill, and so on. 
 
The permanent exhibition ''The Written Word: History of printing in Slovenia'' (opened in 2006) displays the history of printing, paper, printing inks, letterpress, book binding, office printing. Demonstrations include type casting, setting by hand, machine set, hand printing by printing machine, illustration printing by plate and book stitching. 

{{Wide image|Technical Museum of Slovenia 2010 permanent exhibition 01.JPG}}

== International cooperation == 

The Technical Museum of Slovenia is quite ambitious in working and collaborating internationally. A couple of such projects, supported by the EU Culture and Creative Europe Programmes, are the following: 

In 2009 TMS launched the project "Central European Science Adventure &ndash; CESA" project togetehr with five technical museums from the region: the Vienna Technical Museum, the Hungarian Museum of Science, Technology and Transport, the Technical Museum in Brno, the Slovak Technical Museum in Košice and the City Engineering Museum in Krakow. The project re-evaluated and presented interesting inventions and discoveries, as well as renowned and unknown scientists and inventors in the field of physics, chemistry, biology, mathematics, mountain science, construction, etc. The touring exhibition also resulted in a web lexicon. 

Also in 2009 "A Taste of Europe" project was conceived by the Museum of Work in Norrköping, Sweden, to foster intercultural dialogue about food production and everyday consumption. Each of the nine invited museums selected one food product that is of special national importance. Thus the Technical Museum of Slovenia presented honey (the reputation of Slovene beekeeping became known as early as 1689 via [[Janez Vajkard Valvasor]]!), while other museums featured milk (Sweden), wheat (Hungary), pork (Denmark), beer (Czech Republic), the potato (Estonia), bread (Finnland), fish (Scottland) and olive oil (Portugal). The nine exhibition variations were accompanied with interesting texts, also available online.

In 2013 the Technical Museum of Slovenia and its partners from Sweden, Poland, Finland, Belgium and Germany started a two-year project ''Work With Sounds'', recording disappearing or "endangered" sounds of the industrial society. 

In 2017 a similar consortium initiated a follow-up project called the ''Sounds of Changes''. They wish to document a portion of the rapidly changing today's world, namely the change in its acoustic landscape. They collect today’s sounds and soundscapes, thus creating a reference material that can be used for future historical comparisons and descriptions.

== See also ==
* [[Bistra Carthusian Monastery]]
* [[Bogenšperk Castle]] 
* [[Pantz Forester's Gravity Cableway]] 
* [[Museum of Post and Telecommunications]] 
* [[Soteska Depot of Vehicles]]
* [[Association of Slovene Museums]]
* [[Vransko Motorcycle Museum]]

== External links ==

*[http://www.tms.si/index.php?&lang=2 Technical Museum of Slovenia website]
*[http://www.burger.si/MuzejiInGalerije/TMS/TehniskiMuzejENG.html Virtual Museum Guide on Burger.si]
*[http://www.workwithsounds.eu Sounds of Work Archive - ''Work with Sounds'' project] 
*[http://www.soundsofchanges.eu Sounds of Changes Archive]
*[http://www.cesa-project.eu/en The Central European Science Adventure (CESA) website] - a lexicon of forgotten scientists

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