Difference between revisions of "Celje Museum of Recent History"

From Culture.si
(established 1991)
(mwtool_article)
 
(105 intermediate revisions by 10 users not shown)
Line 1: Line 1:
 
{{Article
 
{{Article
|status = TOPROOFREAD NIFERTIK!
+
|status     = TOPROOFREAD NIFERTIK! PHOTO COVER
|maintainer = Ivan Pirnat }}
+
|maintainer = Admin
 +
}}
 +
 
 
{{Infobox
 
{{Infobox
|name = Celje Museum of Recent History
+
|name       = Celje Museum of Recent History
|localname = Muzej novejše zgodovine Celje
+
|localname = Muzej novejše zgodovine Celje
|image = | street     = Prešernova 17
+
|logo      = Celje Museum of Recent History (logo).svg
|town = SI-3000 Celje
+
| street   = Prešernova 17
|telephone = 386 (0) 3 428 6410
+
|town       = SI-3000 Celje
|fax = 386 (0) 3 428 6411
+
|map = http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lon=15.26296&lat=46.22917&zoom=17&layer=mapnik
|email = mnzc@guest.arnes.si
+
|telephone = 386 (0) 3 428 6410
|website = http://www.muzej-nz-ce.si/
+
|fax       = 386 (0) 3 428 6411
|founder = | proprietor  = Celje Urban Municipality
+
|email     = info@muzej-nz-ce.si
|managed by = | contacts   = {{Contact
+
|website   = http://www.muzej-nz-ce.si/
|name = | role        =
+
|founded by = Municipality of Celje
|street = | town        =
+
| contacts = {{Contact
|website = | email       =  
+
|name      = Tonček Kregar
|telephone = | fax        =
+
|role       = Director
  }}{{Contact
+
|street     =  
|name = Tanja Roženbergar Šega
+
|town       =  
|role = Director
+
|website   =  
|street = | town       =  
+
|email     = tone.kregar@mnzc.si
|website = | email       = tanja.rozenbergar@guest.arnes.si
+
|telephone = 386 (0) 3 428 6415
|telephone = | fax         =
+
|fax        =  
  }}{{Contact
 
|name = | role       =
 
|street = | town        =
 
|website = | email      =
 
|telephone = | fax        =  
 
 
   }}
 
   }}
 +
|accounts=
 +
http://twitter.com/mnzcelje
 +
https://www.instagram.com/mnzc_2017/
 +
http://www.facebook.com/muzejnovejsezgodovinecelje
 +
https://www.tripadvisor.com/Attraction_Review-g274868-d7713720-Reviews-Museum_of_Recent_History_Celje-Celje_Styria_Region.html
 
}}
 
}}
== Introduction ==
+
 
 
{{Teaser|
 
{{Teaser|
[[Celje Museum of Recent History]] is a public museum that focuses on research, protection, documentation and presentation of movable cultural heritage of town Celje and Lower Savinjska region from the beginning of the 20th century until present times. Museum has five permanent exhibitions and numerous collections of general history, children toys and creativity, trading, numizmatics, Celje goldsmith history, dentistry, arms and decorations, video and photo library consisting of photo plates and negatives some dating as far as the end of 19th century. Museum is a member of ICOM. Museum's Head of Department of communication and public relations is Andreja Rihter which used to be Minister of Culture of the Republic of Slovenia from year 2000 until 2004.
+
{{Image|Celje Museum of Recent History 2010 building.jpg}}
 
     
 
== History of the museum ==
 
  
*[[established::1951]] a department for the History of the National Liberation War was established at Celje Municipal Museum.
+
As a public institution the [[Celje Museum of Recent History]] focuses on the cultural heritage of the town of Celje and the Lower Savinjska region from the beginning of the 20th century onward. The permanent exhibition presents the everyday life of the town and its inhabitants in the 20th century while the temporary exhibitions turn towards personal stories and cover pop culture, sports or various historical chapters. The museum's distinguished feature is the ''Herman's Den'', the first Slovenian children's museum.
*[[established::1963]] this became an independent cultural institution. Museum moved into premises of former townhall of Celje (1830–1963) where is situated today.
 
*[[established::1979]] the museum obtained additional premises
 
*[[established::1987]]-89 a permanent exhibition on the development of the town of Celje after the Second World War was set up.  
 
*1991 the institution was renamed the [[Celje Museum of Recent History]].
 
*[[established::1993]] the museum opened its dentistry collection, donated to the museum by private collector Dr. Franc Štolf.
 
*[[established::1995]] first slovenian [[Children's Museum Herman's Den]] opened in the premises of the [[Celje Museum of Recent History]].
 
*[[established::2000]] the permanent exhibition ''Life in Celje'' opened.  
 
 
}}
 
}}
  
Museum administers [http://www.almakarlin.si/index.php?lang=en&cat=2''Fund of Alma Karlin''](1889-1950) world traveller, writer and anthropologist from Celje that consists of drawings, sketches, fotographic material, corespondence and testimonies about her.          
+
==Background==
 
+
The museum was established in [[established::1951]] as a department for the History of the National Liberation War at the Celje Municipal Museum. In 1963 it became an independent cultural institution and moved into the premises of the former town hall of Celje where it is still situated today.  
[[Celje Museum of Recent History]] runs two separate museum colections outside of the museum premises. One is [[Josip Pelikan Photographic Studio, Celje]], and the other is [[Stari Pisker Prison, Celje]].
+
 
 +
==Permanent exhibitions and museum branches==
 +
The museum's permanent exhibition, ''Living in Celje'', first opened in 2000, and was renovated and reopened in 2009. It features the ''Diary of Three Generations'' on the first floor, showing how each generation lived in Celje in the course of the 20th century. On the second floor is a reconstruction of ''Celjska Street'' as it looked in the period between the two World Wars. Visitors can walk through various trade shops, the market and a middle-class apartment.
 +
 
 +
Other permanent exhibitions include the museum's Dentistry Collection, donated to the museum by the private collector [[Franc Štolfa]] (1993). ''Herman's Den'' (since 1995) represents the first Slovenian children's museum with a playroom, gallery and theatre. On the invitation of the Hamada Children's Museum of Art in Japan, ''[[Herman's Den]]'' was presented in Japan in 2009.  
 +
 
 +
The [[Celje Museum of Recent History]] administers also two museum branches. The [[Josip Pelikan Photographic Studio, Celje]], with a beautiful glass parlour and all original equipment, from the end of the 19th and early 20th century. The other is the Anti-Nazi memorial site [[Stari Pisker Prison]], known by locals as "The Old Pot". This former Minorite monastery was the site of Nazi violence during World War II, today it is a memorial for the several hundred people who were tortured and executed there.
 +
 
 +
== Collections ==
  
== Education ==
+
The [[Celje Museum of Recent History]] has 17 main collections. Starting with the most general historical collection of items from the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries, it has also very specialised collections of such items and topics as: trade, goldsmith trade, postcards, money, the EMO factory kitchenware, arms, decorations and medals, scales, posters, farewell letters, children's toys and crafts. The museum also has a photo and video archive that can be viewed and studied by appointment.
  
Museum puts a great effort on international educational program called [http://www.muzej-nz-ce.si/sola-muzeologije/ School of Museology Celje] in collaboration with [http://museumsakademie-joanneum.at/MuseumsakademieJoanneum/zielsetzungen-und-aufgaben/willk_ Museumsakademie Joanneum Graz] and [http://www.english.reinwardtacademie.nl/en/ Reinwardt Academie Amsterdam]. In October 2009 museum hosted international museum workshop with the topic [http://www.muzej-nz-ce.si/en/sola-muzeologije/ ''New Trends in Museology''] with dr. Peter van Mensch and Léontine Meijer – van Mensch from [Reinwardt Academie Amsterdam].
+
Especially worth mentioning is the Fund of Alma Karlin. It consists of 850 objects, books, drawings, sketches, photographic material and testimonies about an amazing woman, world traveler, writer and anthropologist from Celje, [[Alma Maksimiljana Karlin]] (1889–1950) and her close companion Thea Schreiber Gamelin. In memory of the 120-year-anniversary of Alma's birth, the Celje Museum of Recent History published the anthology ''Alma's Boundaries and Margins'' (2009).
  
Every year they organize also Summer School of Museology on the slovenian coast in historical town of Piran. This year's topic was ''Museums and Turism''.
+
== Education and international cooperation ==
 +
 
 +
The museum put a great effort on its international educational programme called the ''Celje School of Museology'' in collaboration with Museumsakademie Joanneum Graz and Reinwardt Academie Amsterdam. In October 2009 the museum hosted the international museum workshop with the topic ''New Trends in Museology'' with Peter van Mensch and Léontine Meijer van Mensch from Reinwardt Academie Amsterdam. Its ''Summer School of Museology'' has grown into the [[International Summer School of Museology]].
 +
 
 +
The [[Celje Museum of Recent History]] is a member of the [[International Council of Museums (ICOM), Slovenia|International Council of Museums (ICOM)]] and the Hands on! Association for Children's Museums. With the Museum of Europe in Brussels they collaborated on the exhibition ''The European: His Story''. Celje Museum was also a partner in the European project ''Museum Sign Language Guide'', an education and museum guidance for people with hearing disabilities.
 +
 
 +
The ''JUMUM – Jugend und Musik und Museum'' project supported by the EU Culture Programme 2010–2012 and led by Austrian partner from Bad Ischl popularised the music genre of operetta. The exhibition and some performances took place in Bad Ischl on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the Lehar Festival and in Eggenfelden, Germany, while in Celje some workshops and a school project The Faces of Operetta took place.
  
 
== See also ==
 
== See also ==
 
* [[Josip Pelikan Photographic Studio, Celje]]  
 
* [[Josip Pelikan Photographic Studio, Celje]]  
* [[Stari Pisker Prison, Celje]]  
+
* [[Stari Pisker Prison]]
 +
* [[International Summer School of Museology]]
 +
* [[Celje Regional Museum]]
 +
* [[Municipality of Celje]]
 +
* [[International Council of Museums (ICOM), Slovenia]]
 +
* [[:Category:World War II|Museums and memorials related to World War II]]
 +
 
 +
== External links ==
 +
* [http://www.burger.si/MuzejiInGalerije/MuzejNovejseZgodovineCelje/ZivetiVCelju/360ZivetiVCelju_Stopnisce.html Panoramic view of ''Living in Celje'' exhibition]
 +
* [http://www.almakarlin.si/ Alma Karlin website]
 +
 
 +
{{Gallery}}
  
 
[[Category:Museums]]
 
[[Category:Museums]]
 +
[[Category:Venues]]
 +
[[Category:Municipal museums]]
 +
[[Category:Regional museums]]
 +
[[Category:Specialised museums]]
  
== External links ==
+
[[Category:Museum collections]]
[http://www.muzej-nz-ce.si/en/collections/collection-of-museum-items/ Collection of museum items]
+
[[Category:Museum education]]
 +
[[Category:Museum publishers]]
 +
 
 +
[[Category:Literature museums]]
 +
[[Category:World War II]]
  
[http://www.almakarlin.si/index.php?lang=en&cat=2 Alma Karlin]
 
  
[http://www.muzej-nz-ce.si/sola-muzeologije/ School of Museology]
+
[[Category:EU funding of Slovene organisations (Culture and MEDIA Programmes)]]
 +
[[Category:EU Culture funding recipient]]
 +
[[Category:Municipal cultural institutions]]
 +
[[Category:Literature_museums_and_archives]]
 +
[[Category:Cultural_heritage_education_and_research]]

Latest revision as of 01:19, 19 February 2021




Contact
Download this image
Muzej novejše zgodovine Celje
Prešernova 17, SI-3000 Celje
Phone386 (0) 3 428 6410
Past Events
Show more




Celje Museum of Recent History 2010 building.jpgCelje Museum of Recent History building in Prešernova street, Celje

As a public institution the Celje Museum of Recent History focuses on the cultural heritage of the town of Celje and the Lower Savinjska region from the beginning of the 20th century onward. The permanent exhibition presents the everyday life of the town and its inhabitants in the 20th century while the temporary exhibitions turn towards personal stories and cover pop culture, sports or various historical chapters. The museum's distinguished feature is the Herman's Den, the first Slovenian children's museum.


Background

The museum was established in 1951 as a department for the History of the National Liberation War at the Celje Municipal Museum. In 1963 it became an independent cultural institution and moved into the premises of the former town hall of Celje where it is still situated today.

Permanent exhibitions and museum branches

The museum's permanent exhibition, Living in Celje, first opened in 2000, and was renovated and reopened in 2009. It features the Diary of Three Generations on the first floor, showing how each generation lived in Celje in the course of the 20th century. On the second floor is a reconstruction of Celjska Street as it looked in the period between the two World Wars. Visitors can walk through various trade shops, the market and a middle-class apartment.

Other permanent exhibitions include the museum's Dentistry Collection, donated to the museum by the private collector Franc Štolfa (1993). Herman's Den (since 1995) represents the first Slovenian children's museum with a playroom, gallery and theatre. On the invitation of the Hamada Children's Museum of Art in Japan, Herman's Den was presented in Japan in 2009.

The Celje Museum of Recent History administers also two museum branches. The Josip Pelikan Photographic Studio, Celje, with a beautiful glass parlour and all original equipment, from the end of the 19th and early 20th century. The other is the Anti-Nazi memorial site Stari Pisker Prison, known by locals as "The Old Pot". This former Minorite monastery was the site of Nazi violence during World War II, today it is a memorial for the several hundred people who were tortured and executed there.

Collections

The Celje Museum of Recent History has 17 main collections. Starting with the most general historical collection of items from the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries, it has also very specialised collections of such items and topics as: trade, goldsmith trade, postcards, money, the EMO factory kitchenware, arms, decorations and medals, scales, posters, farewell letters, children's toys and crafts. The museum also has a photo and video archive that can be viewed and studied by appointment.

Especially worth mentioning is the Fund of Alma Karlin. It consists of 850 objects, books, drawings, sketches, photographic material and testimonies about an amazing woman, world traveler, writer and anthropologist from Celje, Alma Maksimiljana Karlin (1889–1950) and her close companion Thea Schreiber Gamelin. In memory of the 120-year-anniversary of Alma's birth, the Celje Museum of Recent History published the anthology Alma's Boundaries and Margins (2009).

Education and international cooperation

The museum put a great effort on its international educational programme called the Celje School of Museology in collaboration with Museumsakademie Joanneum Graz and Reinwardt Academie Amsterdam. In October 2009 the museum hosted the international museum workshop with the topic New Trends in Museology with Peter van Mensch and Léontine Meijer van Mensch from Reinwardt Academie Amsterdam. Its Summer School of Museology has grown into the International Summer School of Museology.

The Celje Museum of Recent History is a member of the International Council of Museums (ICOM) and the Hands on! Association for Children's Museums. With the Museum of Europe in Brussels they collaborated on the exhibition The European: His Story. Celje Museum was also a partner in the European project Museum Sign Language Guide, an education and museum guidance for people with hearing disabilities.

The JUMUM – Jugend und Musik und Museum project supported by the EU Culture Programme 2010–2012 and led by Austrian partner from Bad Ischl popularised the music genre of operetta. The exhibition and some performances took place in Bad Ischl on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the Lehar Festival and in Eggenfelden, Germany, while in Celje some workshops and a school project The Faces of Operetta took place.

See also

External links

Gallery