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An exterior of the National Museum of Contemporary History located in the Baroque Cekin Mansion in Tivoli Park in Ljubljana, 2014.

The National Museum of Contemporary History is a state museum for the 20th-century Slovene history. It houses a fine art and documentation department, a photographic department containing more than a million original photographs, a conservation–restoration workshop, and a library.

Its collections range from World Wars I and II, as well as from the period between the wars, the era of socialism, and the later formation of the new Slovene state in the 1990s. It has a branch in Brestanica in the Rajhenburg Castle. In 2017 the Open Depot exhibition of the three national museums opened in the Park of Military History Pivka.

History

The National Museum of Contemporary History originated in 1944 as the Scientific Institute of the Executive Committee of the National Liberation Front (IOOF) and subsequently became the Museum of National Liberation (1948). In 1952, it was relocated to Cekin Mansion, situated in Ljubljana's Tivoli Park, where it still resides today. In 1962, it became the Museum of the People's Revolution, acquiring its current name only in 2003.

Collections

The museum's collections include weapons, military equipment, numismatics, textiles, medals, and decorations, plaques, postcards, photographs, films and videos, badges and signs, rubber stamps, seals and printing blocks, philately, and cartography. A fine art collection, a collection of personal items and documents (among them the deck of tarock cards, drawn by the artist and architect Boris Kobe in Nazi concentration camps), and of gifts to the former president Milan Kučan are worth mentioning as well. In 2009, the Slovene Police donated about 30 pieces of weapons from World War II and from other violent skirmishes in Slovene history.

One of the most impressive collections is the comprehensive archive of the photo-reporter Edi Šelhaus (1919–2011) with 2,026 original b/w negatives from World War II and over 137,000 original b/w and colour photographs as well as slides and negatives, donated by the author (in 2000) and his main employee, the Delo Publishing House (in 2009).

Exhibitions

Of particular note is the permanent exhibition Slovenes in the 20th Century, opened in 1996 and revised several times, which illustrates the history of Slovenes from 1914 until the present day. The exhibition presents Slovene economic, political, and cultural history in its broadest sense. In addition to turning points in history, such as wars and the foundation of the new state, the exhibition also attempts to illustrate everyday life alongside historical developments.

Some previous temporary exhibitions include The Life in Nazi Concentration Camps (2020), We never imagined such a war (World War I through personal stories, 2014), You get the Moon, we get the Gold on the 1970 FIBA World Championship hosted by Ljubljana (2013), Unite, Unite Poor Peasants: persecution of farmers in Slovenia 1945–1955 (2009), The World of Music in the 1960s – on the 90th Anniversary of the Photojournalist Edi Šelhaus (2009) about the first Yugoslav jazz festivals between 1960 and 1963 and festivals of popular songs in the 1960s, and memorial exhibitions dedicated to Jože Pučnik and Janez Drnovšek (2008).

In 2013, the National Museum of Contemporary History hosted the popular GOTO 1982 exhibition on computer history. The exhibits came from the Slovene Computer Museum, the Technical Museum of Slovenia, Peek&Poke Museum from Croatia, and Arnes Institute.

Slovenci in prva svetovna vojna / World War I and the Slovenians by Muzej novejše in sodobne zgodovine Slovenije on YouTube

International cooperation

The museum also prepares exhibitions for touring, for example, Kobe’s tarock. The concentration camps’ narrative, the exhibition The Making of Slovenia (toured to Dublin in 2002), and the exhibition Culture in the National Liberation War (traveled to Sgonicco in 2003). The exhibition entitled There over the Hills is like here, European Themes of Slovene History, accompanied by multilingual catalogues, also toured. The borrowing of museum objects and documents is possible in accordance with state regulations.

European project

The museum has engaged in the conception of EU-funded project since 2012. The recent ones include Identity on the Line (I-ON), exploring the long-term consequences of different migration processes, and IMPROVISA - Life in Motion, addressing the accessibility of heritage contents through the use of mobile technologies. The first one, EuroVision: Museums Exhibiting Europe (EMEE) (2012 to 2016) aimed to establish new creative concepts for audience development.

Publications and lectures

The temporary exhibitions are accompanied by catalogues. In addition, the museum publishes monographs on Slovene recent history, like The Making of Slovenia (in English) in 2009, and video and electronic media, such as Art Collection: Authors and their Works (in Slovenian and English) in 2007.

The museum runs an intense public programme of lectures, round tables, workshops, and screenings in the renovated Knights' Hall which can be rented as well.

Odvoz tanka / Farewell pink tank by Muzej novejše in sodobne zgodovine Slovenije on YouTube

External links

Gallery

The Cekin Mansion at night. National Museum of Contemporary History, 2012.

The tank from the Ten-Day War in Slovenia (1991) in front of the National Museum of Contemporary History. On the eve of the International Women's Day in 2012 it was sprayed pink by the unknown activists and became a new popular landmark in Ljubljana. It is owned by the Military Museum of Slovenian Armed Forces and was transferred to the Park of Military History Pivka only a few months after the action. The pink paint was removed.

The National Museum of Contemporary History located at the Cekin Mansion in Park Tivoli, Ljubljana, since 1952. As captured in 2013.

Panoramc view of the National Museum of Contemporary History housed in the Cekin Mansion, 2013.

The old street game 'Ristanc' in front of the National Museum of Contemporary History, 2013.

Cekin Mansion, a 18th century building based on plans by the Viennese Baroque architect Fischer von Erlach, located in Tivoli Park in Ljubljana. Today the mansion houses the National Museum of Contemporary History, 2014.

A Baroque Cekin Mansion in park Tivoli in Ljubljana, since 1951 housing the National Museum of Contemporary History, 2014.

France Cerar's photo documentation presented at the National Museum of Contemporary History, 2014

An opening ceremony at the National Museum of Contemporary History in Ljubljana. A temporary exhibition presented France Cerar's photo documentation, 2014.

An exterior of the National Museum of Contemporary History located in the Baroque Cekin Mansion in Tivoli Park in Ljubljana, 2014.

National Museum of Contemporary History, 2014

A lecture related to the centenary of the WWI in the Knights' Hall of the National Museum of Contemporary History, Ljubljana, 2015

An opening ceremony of the Izgnanci exhibition at the National Museum of Contemporary History, Brestanica Unit at Rajhenburg Castle, 2014

A pair of skis, used in the Yugoslav People’s Army. From 1974 onwards, its mountain warfare forces would use the equipment produced by Elan.

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-The [[National Museum of Contemporary History]], originated in [[established::1944]] as the Scientific Institute of the Executive Committee of the Slovene Liberation Front (IOOF), has its seat in Cekin Castle, situated in Tivoli Park in Ljubljana. It houses collections of items from the First and the Second World War, between both wars, from the socialism and about the formation of a new state. It has a [[Museum of Political Prisoners, Internees and Deportees, Brestanica|branch in Brestanica]] in the [[Rajhenburg Castle]]. Slovene Police donated about 30 pieces of weapons from the Second World War and from other violent skirmish in 2009.
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+The National Museum of Contemporary History is a state museum for the 20th-century Slovene history. It houses a fine art and documentation department, a photographic department containing more than a million original photographs, a conservation–restoration workshop, and a [[National Museum of Contemporary History Library|library]].
+Its collections range from World Wars I and II, as well as from the period between the wars, the era of socialism, and the later formation of the new Slovene state in the 1990s. It has a [[National Museum of Contemporary History, Brestanica Unit|branch in Brestanica]] in the [[Rajhenburg Castle]]. In 2017 the Open Depot exhibition of the three national museums opened in the [[Park of Military History Pivka]].
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 == History ==
-The IOOF subsequently became the Museum of National Liberation (1948). It was relocated to Cekin Castle in 1952; in 1962 it became the Museum of People's Revolution and acquired its current name in the 1990s.
+The [[National Museum of Contemporary History]] originated in 1944 as the Scientific Institute of the Executive Committee of the National Liberation Front (IOOF) and subsequently became the Museum of National Liberation ([[established::1948]]). In 1952, it was relocated to [[Cekin Mansion]], situated in Ljubljana's Tivoli Park, where it still resides today. In 1962, it became the Museum of the People's Revolution, acquiring its current name only in 2003.
-== Mission ==
+== Collections ==
-The National Museum of Contemporary History is a state museum responsible for the movable and intangible cultural heritage of the 20th-century Slovene history. It houses fine art and documentation department, a photographic department containing more than a million original photographs, conservation – restoration workshop, administration department and a library. In both halls different events take place, i.e. ''Festival Unicum''.
+The museum's collections include weapons, military equipment, numismatics, textiles, medals, and decorations, plaques, postcards, photographs, films and videos, badges and signs, rubber stamps, seals and printing blocks, philately, and cartography. A fine art collection, a collection of personal items and documents (among them the deck of tarock cards, drawn by the artist and architect [[Boris Kobe]] in Nazi concentration camps), and of gifts to the former president [[Milan Kučan]] are worth mentioning as well. In 2009, the Slovene Police donated about 30 pieces of weapons from World War II and from other violent skirmishes in Slovene history.
-== Cekin Castle ==
+One of the most impressive collections is the comprehensive archive of the photo-reporter [[Edi Šelhaus]] (1919&ndash;2011) with 2,026 original b/w negatives from World War II and over 137,000 original b/w and colour photographs as well as slides and negatives, donated by the author (in 2000) and his main employee, the [[Delo Publishing House]] (in 2009).
-By the time of a mid 18th century, when Lamberg Castle was erected by Count Leopold Karl Lamberg, the mansion was standing in Ljubljana suburb. The architect Johann Georg Schmidt built it in 1725–1752 without high ambitions, as it was designed merely for dancing parties. Its later name Cekin derives from a deformation of a family name Szögeny, who was later an owner. The mansion had several eminent residents: Italian viceroy Eugen Beauharnais in 1813, the poet France Prešeren was a domestic teacher in 1818–1819, and family Kozler as last owners before the nationalisation after the Second World War.
-The building was transformed in a museum by the plans of Edo Mihevc in 1952, who inserted a mezzanine above the ground floor. In 1992 the mansion was rearranged again by architect Jurij Kobe, when the attic was devoted for warehouse and an elevator out of steel and glass was added at the backside.
+== Exhibitions ==
+Of particular note is the permanent exhibition ''Slovenes in the 20th Century'', opened in 1996 and revised several times, which illustrates the history of Slovenes from 1914 until the present day. The exhibition presents Slovene economic, political, and cultural history in its broadest sense. In addition to turning points in history, such as wars and the foundation of the new state, the exhibition also attempts to illustrate everyday life alongside historical developments.
-The two-storey late Baroque mansion has a central projection and behind it an entrance hall on the ground floor and the Knights’ Hall on the first floor, which used to be a dancing hall. The Knights’ Hall has Baroque paintings on walls and ceiling in Illusionistic style and two decorative stoves. The main staircase is at its backside. It is declared a cultural monument of state importance.
+Some previous temporary exhibitions include ''The Life in Nazi Concentration Camps'' (2020), ''We never imagined such a war'' (World War I through personal stories, 2014), ''You get the Moon, we get the Gold'' on the 1970 FIBA World Championship hosted by Ljubljana (2013), ''Unite, Unite Poor Peasants: persecution of farmers in Slovenia 1945&ndash;1955'' (2009), ''The World of Music in the 1960s &ndash; on the 90th Anniversary of the Photojournalist Edi Šelhaus'' (2009) about the first Yugoslav jazz festivals between 1960 and 1963 and festivals of popular songs in the 1960s, and memorial exhibitions dedicated to [[Jože Pučnik]] and [[Janez Drnovšek]] (2008).
-In front of the mansion stands in its axis a chestnuts avenue. Contents of the building are marked with a tank at the entrance.
+In 2013, the National Museum of Contemporary History hosted the popular ''GOTO 1982'' exhibition on computer history. The exhibits came from the [[Cyberpipe#Computer_museum|Slovene Computer Museum]], the [[Technical Museum of Slovenia]], Peek&Poke Museum from Croatia, and [[ARNES, Academic and Research Network of Slovenia|Arnes Institute]].
-== Collections ==
+{{YouTube|G8DsuOOZoCY}}
-The museum's collections include weapons, military equipment, numismatics, textiles, medals, and decorations, plaques, postcards, photographs, films and videos, badges and signs, rubber stamps, seals and printing blocks, philately and cartography. Fine art collection, a collection of personal items and documents, and of gifts to former president Milan Kučan are to be mentioned as well.
-== Exhibitions ==
+==International cooperation==
-Of particular note is the permanent exhibition ''Slovenes in the 20th Century'', opened in 1996 and revised in 2006, which illustrates the history of Slovenes from 1914 until the present day. The exhibition presents Slovene economic, political, and cultural history in its broadest sense. In addition to turning points in history, such as wars and the foundation of the new state, the exhibition also attempts to illustrate everyday life in historical development. For this exhibition it was nominated for the European Museum of the Year Award in 1998.
+The museum also prepares exhibitions for touring, for example, ''Kobe’s tarock. The concentration camps’ narrative'', the exhibition ''The Making of Slovenia'' (toured to Dublin in 2002), and the exhibition ''Culture in the National Liberation War'' (traveled to Sgonicco in 2003). The exhibition entitled ''There over the Hills is like here, European Themes of Slovene History'', accompanied by multilingual catalogues, also toured. The borrowing of museum objects and documents is possible in accordance with state regulations.
-Equipment in the final exhibition room enables visitors to browse the computer database for exhibited objects. By using modern communication or audiovisual technology, the museum also tries to provide visitors with information on material which is not on display. Soon all documentation will be available online.
+===European project===
+The museum has engaged in the conception of EU-funded project since 2012. The recent ones include ''Identity on the Line (I-ON)'', exploring the long-term consequences of different migration processes, and ''IMPROVISA - Life in Motion'', addressing the accessibility of heritage contents through the use of mobile technologies. The first one, ''EuroVision: Museums Exhibiting Europe (EMEE)'' (2012 to 2016) aimed to establish new creative concepts for audience development.
-There are displays entitled ''Terror during World War II'', the ''Partisan Sanitary Service and Printing Houses and Wartime Press 1941–1945'', a reconstructed Partisan Workshop, and a hand-operated printing works.
+== Publications and lectures ==
+The temporary exhibitions are accompanied by catalogues. In addition, the museum publishes monographs on Slovene recent history, like ''The Making of Slovenia'' (in English) in 2009, and video and electronic media, such as ''Art Collection: Authors and their Works'' (in Slovenian and English) in 2007.
-The museum also prepares exhibitions for overseas touring, for example the exhibition ''The Making of Slovenia'', which toured to Dublin in 2002, and the exhibition ''Culture in the National Liberation War'', which travelled to Zgonik near Trieste in 2003. An exhibition entitled ''There over the Hills is like here, European Themes of Slovene History'', accompanied by multilingual catalogues, is readily available for touring. The borrowing of museum objects and documents is possible in accordance with state regulations.
+The museum runs an intense public programme of lectures, round tables, workshops, and screenings in the renovated Knights' Hall which can be rented as well.
-The museum includes a temporary exhibition area and a lecture room in Knights’ Hall with 30 seats which is suitable for screenings and lectures. Some previous temporary exhibitions are: ''Unite, unite poor peasants: persecution of farmers in Slovenia 1945–1955'' (2009), ''The World of Music in the 60’s – on the 90th Anniversary of the Photojournalist Edi Šelhaus'' (2009) about the first Yugoslav jazz festivals between 1960 and 1963 and festivals of popular songs in the 1960's , ''Memorial exhibitions dedicated to Jože Pučnik and Janez Drnovšek'' (2008), ''Slovenian European Union Council Presidency 2008'' (2008), ''Slovenes and the First World War 1914–1918'' (2008), ''State of Slovenians, Croats and Serbs 1918-2008'' (2008).
+{{YouTube|zquWNgU-GL4}}
-== Publications ==
-The temporary exhibitions are accompanied by catalogues. Besides the museum publishes newsletter ''Museum's News'' twice a year (in Slovene and English), freely available on the world wide web, and monographies on Slovene recent history, like ''The Making of Slovenia'' (in English) in 2009, and video and electronic media, like ''Art Collection : Authors and their Works'' (in Slovene and English) in 2007, and ''Slovenian Museums'' (in Slovene and English) in 1997.
 == See also ==
-* [[Museum of Political Prisoners, Internees and Deportees, Brestanica]]
+* [[Cekin Mansion]]
 * [[National Museum of Contemporary History Library]]
+* [[National Museum of Contemporary History, Brestanica Unit]]
 * [[Institute of Contemporary History]]
-* [[Celje Museum of Recent History]]
+* [[:Category:World War I|Museums and memorials related to World War I]]
-* [[Borec Journal]]
+* [[:Category:World War II|Museums and memorials related to World War II]]
-=== National Liberation collections ===
-* [[Maribor National Liberation Museum]]
-* [[Zagorje National Liberation War Collection]]
-* [[National Liberation Movement Collection, Središče ob Dravi]]
-* [[Vaneča Memorial Room – District Committee of the Association of National Liberation War Veterans Murska Sobota]]
-* [[Baza 20 Memorial Site, Kočevski Rog]]
-* [[Zidanšek Pohorje Brigade Exhibition]]
-* [[Pohorje Partisan Exhibition]]
 == External links ==
-* [http://www.muzej-nz.si/ National Museum of Contemporary History website]
+* [http://www.muzej-nz.si/en/ National Museum of Contemporary History website]
-* [http://www.spletna-galerija.net/Museum.aspx?id=mnzs National Museum of Contemporary History – spletna-galerija.net]
 * [http://www.burger.si/MuzejiInGalerije/MuzejNovejseZgodovineSlovenije/MNZSlovenije.html National Museum of Contemporary History] on [[Virtual Guide to Slovene Museums and Galleries]]
-* [http://www.burger.si/Ljubljana/Muzeji_NovejseZgodovine.htm National Museum of Contemporary History Panoramas] on [[Virtual Guide to Slovene Museums and Galleries]]
-* [http://kraji.eu/slovenija/park_tivoli/IMG_7365_ljubljana_park_tivoli_cekinov_grad_muzej_novejse_zgodovine/eng National Museum of Contemporary History – kraji.eu]
+{{Gallery}}
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+[[Category:Exhibition venues]]
+[[Category:Exhibition organisers]]
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+[[Category:EU funding of Slovene organisations (Culture and MEDIA Programmes)]]
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