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| status       = 
| maintainer   = Janez Premk
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{{Infobox
| name                = Ethnological Collection in Kasarna, Jesenice
| localname           = Etnološka zbirka v Kasarni, Jesenice
| street              = Cesta Franceta Prešerna 48
| town                = SI-4270 Jesenice
| telephone           = 386 (0) 4 583 3506, 386 (0) 4 583 3500
| email               = info@gmj.si
| website             = http://www.gmj.si/
| managed by          = Upper Sava Valley Museum, Jesenice
| opening hours       = 8am–4pm Mon–Fri, 8am–5pm Wed. Closed Sat, Sun and holiday. For announced groups by arrangement.
| contacts = {{Contact
| name                = Irena Lačen Benedičič
| role                = Director
}}
| accounts            = 
https://www.facebook.com/GMJesenice
}}

{{Teaser|
Housed in the Kasarna, a workers’ residential building dating from the late 18th century, the [[Ethnological Collection in Kasarna, Jesenice]], arranged in [[established::2005]] by the [[Upper Sava Valley Museum, Jesenice]], depicts the culture and way of life of iron-worker families, the history and way of life of the settlement, and the history of the building, together with a reconstruction of a typical iron-worker dwelling.

The building houses also a small photo gallery, the Jesenice Music School, and a venue for temporary exhibitions and various events: workshops, film, theatre and music shows. 
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== Technical monuments in Stara Sava==
The two-storey late Baroque building has three entrances and presents one of the earliest examples in the inner Austrian territory of multi-residential housing for workers. Together with other buildings at Stara Sava it forms the complex of the Bucelleni-Ruard Manor, first established in the 16th century.

In Stara Sava one can also see the [[Iron-making, Mining and Palaeontologic Collection in Bucelleni-Ruard Manor, Jesenice|Bucelleni-Ruard Manor]], remnants of the blast furnace and puddling mill, the little ironworks' Jesuit style Church of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary and Roch, a chimney, a mill, and part of a concrete water trough. The complex is protected as a technical monument.

== Collection ==
A family had the right to live in the Kasarna if one of its members was employed in the iron forge. On average, 15 families lived in the building, sharing the kitchen, toilets, entrance hall, woodshed, and other common spaces. The kitchen and a room of the workers' dwelling reflect life in the 1930s and 1940s. Using characteristic wooden furniture with ornaments in the bedroom and period kitchen equipment including a built-in wall range, grid iron, coffee grinding-mill and other implements, the life of an iron-workers' family is authentically documented.

== See also ==
* [[Upper Sava Valley Museum, Jesenice]]
* [[Iron-making, Mining and Palaeontologic Collection in Bucelleni-Ruard Manor, Jesenice]] in Stara Sava

== External links ==
* [https://www.gmj.si/en/museum-of-workers-culture-jesenice/ The collection on the museum's website] 
* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kasarna Kasarna on Wikipedia]
* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_of_the_Assumption_of_the_Virgin_Mary_and_Roch_%28Jesenice%29 Church of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary and Roch on Wikipedia]
* [http://sl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kranjska_industrijska_dru%C5%BEba Kranjska industrijska družba on Wikipedija] (in Slovenian)


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[[Category:Ethnographic museums and collections]]