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| status       = INFOBOX TOPROOFREAD NIFERTIK!
| maintainer   = Ivan Pirnat
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{{Infobox
| name                = Frančiška Shaft, Idrija
| localname           = Jašek Frančiške
| street              = Rožna ulica 20
| town                = SI-5280 Idrija
| telephone           = 386 (0) 5 372 6600
| fax                 = 386 (0) 5 377 3580
| email               = tajnistvo@muzej-idrija-cerkno.si
| website             = http://www.muzej-idrija-cerkno.si
| founded by          = Idrija Municipal Museum
| contacts = {{Contact
| name                = Ivana Leskovec
| role                = Director
| email               = ivana.leskovec@muzej-idrija-cerkno.si
}}
}}

{{Teaser|   

The [[Frančiška Shaft]], is the [[Idrija Municipal Museum]] dislocated technical department, which presents old driving and mining machines. In lower two exhibition spaces 14 machines are set up, steam, diesel and battery driven. The best what Austrian, Bohemian and Italian marks could provide in late 19th and early 20th century. Exeptional specimen of technical heritage is Kley pump. Steam piston machine made in Bohemian Škoda - Pilsen Works in year 1893 is the biggest preserved steam machine in Slovenia and probably in Europe. Until 1948 Kley pump was pumping water out the shafts. It was extensively maintained, renovated and opened to the public again in year 2009.   
On the first floor of the [[Frančiška Shaft]] building there are machines from mechanical workshops, forging, shaping and drilling machines of different manufacturers. 
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== See also ==
* [[Cerkno Museum]]
* [[Idrija Mine Museum]] 
* [[Miner's House - Ethnological Collection]], Idrija 
* [[Idrija Kamšt]]
* [[Flood Dams (Klauže)]]

== External Links ==
* [http://www.muzej-idrija-cerkno.si/english/o_muzeju.htm Idrija Municipal Museum]
* [http://www.rzs-idrija.si/ Mercury Mine Idrija]
* [http://www.europeanmuseumforum.eu/micheletti_prize.asp Micheletti Prize]
* [http://www.idrija-turizem.si/en/content/view/34/111/ Idrija Heritage]
* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Almad%C3%A9n Almadén]
* [http://whc.unesco.org/en/tentativelists/5154/ UNESCO and Idrija nomination]

[[Category:Museums]]
[[Category:Monuments and sites]]